Haas School Creates Executive Level Program in Shanghai
The Haas School of Business is providing an executive-level program in Shanghai that presents a Silicon Valley perspective on business, innovation, and leadership topics to top Chinese leaders. The program is taught by Berkeley-Haas faculty, starting May 6, 2014.
This Partnership for China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong and Berkeley-Haas is a three-year pilot program between Berkeley-Haas and the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong in Shanghai, according to a memorandum of understanding signed by Berkeley-Haas Dean Rich Lyons and Professor Feng Jun, executive vice president of CELAP.
CELAP is one of three preeminent Chinese government leadership academies and provides international, contemporary leadership development for China’s senior officials.
“We are creating a powerful educational partnership by bringing together the number one public research university in the U.S. with China’s premier leadership academy for developing high-level public officials,” said Rich Lyons, dean of Berkeley-Haas. “Our partnership is further strengthened by the culture we share, one that emphasizes innovative leadership and a commitment to long-term, positive impact on our societies.”
Professor Feng Jun, executive vice president of CELAP, said, “It opens a new chapter for strengthening our partnership in leadership development and I’m confident that our partnership would help both Berkeley-Haas and CELAP bring about more potential opportunities for future collaboration such as scholar exchange, joint research, joint training, joint publication, and so on.”
Four times a year, a member of the Berkeley-Haas faculty will travel to Shanghai to teach an intensive course focusing on current issues in business, innovation, and public policy.
As part of the first course Professor Andrew K. Rose, Haas associate dean for faculty, is presenting on the impact of European and U.S. monetary policy on the Chinese economy for Chinese ministers and district governors from May 6 to May 7. Dean Rich Lyons is scheduled to present the next course on innovative leadership in September.
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