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A briefing session on the Program was held in the Garden Hotel of Guangzhou last Friday (April 19, 2002). Dr Gilbert Wong, Executive Director of PKKI, introduced the objectives, content, student requirements and other details of the Program in the briefing session. The briefing session was well-attended and attracted Guangzhou media including the Phoenix Satellite TV, Guangzhou TV and Guangzhou Daily to cover.
In the briefing session, Dr Wong mentioned that China had become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the end of last year. The accession augured well for the national mission of full integration with the world economy. However, if China was to meet its accession commitments to WTO rules and principles, it would also lead to substantial changes in China's business, legal, administrative and regulatory environment.
In such a dynamic environment, it would be essential that business firms, both domestic and foreign, understood how to adapt their organizations' system and processes to meet the new market challenges. There would be a growing demand for management consultants capable of applying their experience, skills and expertise in a professional way to help business firms meet the new challenges that they face.
Dr Wong believed that the Program would attract executives who had extensive business knowledge and experience and who intended to initiate management consulting activities in China. Recently graduated students (MBA or equivalent) who were currently engaged in management consulting work and who aimed to expand their businesses to serve major China and foreign companies would also apply for the course. He pointed out that although management consulting was a new concept and a new business in mainland China, it had been already very popular in the European and American countries. Even solicitors and accountants who provided professional services to their business clients needed management consulting skills in order to provide more diversified services and to raise their market competitiveness. Management consulting skills were also important for executives who were involved in corporate governance, strategic planning and development of their organizations.
The Certificate Program in Management Consulting will be held from May 27, 2002 (Monday) to June 6, 2002 (Thursday) at the Teaching Center of Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen. The Program will be taught in an intensive mode. It consists of 10 working days spread over an 11-day period (two 5-day teaching sessions with a 1-day break in the middle). Teaching faculty will be drawn from both the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and from PKKI of the University of Hong Kong.
The certificate will be awarded by the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management of the University of Hong Kong. Outstanding participants may be invited to join the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs' web-based Global Clinic in Management Consulting where they will have the opportunity to provide management consulting services both to US business firms who wish to enter the China market as well as to local Chinese firms.
For any enquiry, please contact Mr Lennon Tsang of HKU's China Affairs Office at Tel: 2241-5850, Fax: 2858-4986 or Email: llltsang@hku.hk.
Please visit the following website for details of the Program and to download photos of the briefing session in Guangzhou.
www.hku.hk/eroonweb/hkuwhareng.htm
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 75,000 worldwide.
Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management of the University of Hong Kong
Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management (PKI) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan and independent institute of management at the University of Hong Kong, a pre-eminent international university and Hong Kong's most prestigious and oldest higher institution that captures the unique essence of both bygone and contemporary Hong Kong. PKKI's mission is to develop new management methodologies, tools and paradigms to help the consulting and management communities in Hong Kong, China and the Asian Pacific region. It is a premier institute in executive training.
HKU and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to jointly organize a Certificate Program in Management Consulting in mainland China
24 Apr 2002
Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management (PKKI) of the University of Hong Kong and the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will jointly organise a Certificate Program in Management Consulting. The Program will be offered in Shenzhen, mainland China, in late May this year. Participants who successfully complete the program will be able to use the latest western management consulting tools to help businesses – both small and large - address their management problems.
A briefing session on the Program was held in the Garden Hotel of Guangzhou last Friday (April 19, 2002). Dr Gilbert Wong, Executive Director of PKKI, introduced the objectives, content, student requirements and other details of the Program in the briefing session. The briefing session was well-attended and attracted Guangzhou media including the Phoenix Satellite TV, Guangzhou TV and Guangzhou Daily to cover.
In the briefing session, Dr Wong mentioned that China had become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) at the end of last year. The accession augured well for the national mission of full integration with the world economy. However, if China was to meet its accession commitments to WTO rules and principles, it would also lead to substantial changes in China's business, legal, administrative and regulatory environment.
In such a dynamic environment, it would be essential that business firms, both domestic and foreign, understood how to adapt their organizations' system and processes to meet the new market challenges. There would be a growing demand for management consultants capable of applying their experience, skills and expertise in a professional way to help business firms meet the new challenges that they face.
Dr Wong believed that the Program would attract executives who had extensive business knowledge and experience and who intended to initiate management consulting activities in China. Recently graduated students (MBA or equivalent) who were currently engaged in management consulting work and who aimed to expand their businesses to serve major China and foreign companies would also apply for the course. He pointed out that although management consulting was a new concept and a new business in mainland China, it had been already very popular in the European and American countries. Even solicitors and accountants who provided professional services to their business clients needed management consulting skills in order to provide more diversified services and to raise their market competitiveness. Management consulting skills were also important for executives who were involved in corporate governance, strategic planning and development of their organizations.
The Certificate Program in Management Consulting will be held from May 27, 2002 (Monday) to June 6, 2002 (Thursday) at the Teaching Center of Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen. The Program will be taught in an intensive mode. It consists of 10 working days spread over an 11-day period (two 5-day teaching sessions with a 1-day break in the middle). Teaching faculty will be drawn from both the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and from PKKI of the University of Hong Kong.
The certificate will be awarded by the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management of the University of Hong Kong. Outstanding participants may be invited to join the Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs' web-based Global Clinic in Management Consulting where they will have the opportunity to provide management consulting services both to US business firms who wish to enter the China market as well as to local Chinese firms.
For any enquiry, please contact Mr Lennon Tsang of HKU's China Affairs Office at Tel: 2241-5850, Fax: 2858-4986 or Email: llltsang@hku.hk.
Please visit the following website for details of the Program and to download photos of the briefing session in Guangzhou.
www.hku.hk/eroonweb/hkuwhareng.htm
Organizing Institutions
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 75,000 worldwide.
Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management of the University of Hong Kong
Poon Kam Kai Institute of Management (PKI) is a not-for-profit, non-partisan and independent institute of management at the University of Hong Kong, a pre-eminent international university and Hong Kong's most prestigious and oldest higher institution that captures the unique essence of both bygone and contemporary Hong Kong. PKKI's mission is to develop new management methodologies, tools and paradigms to help the consulting and management communities in Hong Kong, China and the Asian Pacific region. It is a premier institute in executive training.
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