Ms. Xiao Xiyun of CHEMBA Class 21 Delivered a Speech on CHEMBA Opening Ceremonyony
༺October 23, 2021 witnessed the grand opening of 2021 CHEMBA, a joint EMBA program offered by the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University.
Ms. Xiao Xiyun of CHEMBA class 21 delivered a speech on the opening ceremony. Dear Professors, Teachers, Alumni and Classmates, Good afternoon. My name is Xiao Xiyun. It’s my great honor to give a welcome speech as a new student representative.ꦐI’m working in a multi-national FMCG company as head of group financial reporting & analysis. One of my key responsibilities is to provide monthly financial report to our executive team and the board of directors, delivering insight and analysis in our business. With the diversification and internationalization of our company’s business, I face challenges and difficulties to provide insightful observations or suggestions to our top management team because of my lack of professional thinking and systematic business knowledge. I then realized that it’s necessary to obtain further scientific business management knowledge through a professional and systemic program.
I know about CHEMBA through alumni, who are also my friend or previous colleagues. I was attracted by the comprehensive and systemic curriculum of CHEMBA. Besides, CHEMBA is an English-taught EMBA program in South China that is jointly run by a Chinese and an American university. Considering I’m working in multi-national company, there is no doubt that CHEMBA became my first choice.
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I am specialized in financial management. So every time I make investment, I’ll evaluate the ROI (return of investment). I did the same when I decided to join this program. Here I would like to share my view of ROI from joining CHEMBA program.
꧋First, we can gain a broad international perspective through this program.ꦺ Professors assigned to CHEMBA are experts from all walks of life, who not only have certain academic attainments, but also have practical experience in business management. Their broad knowledge and vision will help diversify our perspectives and methods of thinking. In addition, overseas activities are organized regularly. Frequent communication with students in different countries can provide us a broad international perspective. The enterprise research activities also provide a good platform for us to learn and use through communication with enterprises.
🍸Secondly, this program enables us to establish a good business network. ⛄Students gathering here are all kinds of talents, including entrepreneurs, senior managers in enterprises and social elites. They are specialized in various area like finance, research and development, marketing, sales, supply chain, manufacturing and etc. Each student has a unique perspective and understanding of management. Communicating with fellow students is a rare time worth cherishing. This helps us to better spark in studies and discussions, stimulate ideas from each other, and help us have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the knowledge we learn.
Thirdly, this program helps us build a solid foundation for the future career development.ꦿ Students are all managers from different industries and enterprises. CHEMBA has built a platform for us to communicate and learn from each other. With this study experience of CHEMBA, I firmly believe that our future career and life will have a higher and better development. I also learned from alumni that, the study of this program is indeed very demanding. We’ll have heavy readings, class assignments and homework. In the meanwhile, we need to balance our work and family life. Adults always need to make choices in life. Every student sitting here have decided to join this program, then please bear in mind the irreplaceable value of CHEMBA and enjoy the coming 20 months’ study. Last but not least, wish all of us completing the program successfully! Let’s keep learning and growing, alongside with CHEMBA. Thank you!
CHEMBA, China Executive MBA Program is joint EMBA program offered by the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University, which is among the first batch of joint programs approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council back in 1999. With the support of world-renowned American business school as the Carlson School of Management, and a top university in China as the Sun Yat-sen University, CHEMBA program continues to provide prestigious American business education to Chinese executives as a leading EMBA Program in Asia Pacific, by introducing the world-class faculty and rigorous teaching model. With endeavor to excellence, CHEMBA has been awarded the No. 1 Joint EMBA program in China for six times and Best Faculty Honor for two times. The mission of the CHEMBA program is to enrich global management knowledge of business leaders to advance their careers and shape the future of global business.