On April 18, the 30th anniversary of the “New Financial, New Business, New Elite” project was held at the international conference center of National University Technology Park of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The speech was conducted in the form of simultaneous presentation both online and offline. Professor Hang Wei, COB Associate Executive Dean and Director of the MBA Center of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Professor Zhijun Chen, academic director of MBA Center and director of the Department of Human Resources of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Mr. Lei Xu, Managing Director of Morgan Stanley (China) Equity Investment Management Co., Ltd., attended the conference and delivered keynote speeches. They led students, faculty, alumni, and faculty to gain insights into new finance, new business, and new talent, and explained the MBA admissions policy for 2022 in detail. In addition, the promotion video for the 30th anniversary of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics MBA program was also released at the launching event.
New Finance, New Business
Recent changes in global finance have generated widespread impacts and remoter prospects to China’s economy, as well as the emergence of the needs of business education to address efficiently the mission of a new era. In his keynote speech entitled “New Finance, New Business”, COB Associate Executive Dean and Director of the MBA Center of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Professor Wei Hang told that, the College of Business and MBA of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is focusing on future-oriented “New business” and are adopting recent and effective explorations and practices.
Dean Wei believes that three prominent features like “Anti-globalization”, “China factor” and “Technology-driven” are constructing the background of the “New finance and economics “era. Business education and research will be carried out from three dimensions: “New theory”, “New model” and “New practice “in responding to the demand of the background. Under the modern technological tools and methods teaching pattern reforms for business education are imminent. The College of Business of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics is vigorously exploring respective fields to discover the practical scenario of business teaching by setting scene-based laboratories. They are equally applying technologies like virtual reality (VR) and big data to teach students to learn and practice simulations, which are closely related to business operations.. At the same time, the school is establishing a laboratory and research institute for the School of Mathematical Intelligence expecting to better serve for MBA students career development, and to contribute more financial research outcomes to the national economic development.
The New Elite: business ideals, sailing away
Artificial Intelligence can change the business landscape of the current era, and artificial intelligence has turned out to be an important mode of competitiveness in the workplace. Professor Zhijun Chen believes that workplace elites need to improve their overall smart intelligence through persistent learning and the reconstruction of these values.
At the MBA of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, students “career pyramid” meets the “academic ivory tower” of business education through the numeric series of “one, two, three, four” classes (knowledge in first classroom, practice in second classroom, network resources in third classroom, self-value in the fourth classroom). This teaching-learning approach supports students benefitting business frontier explorers, insight producers, and business civilization heirs. Professor Zhijun Chen argues that every crisis presents us with a unique opportunity to stress management and rethinking our investment to settle how we respond and behave. In conclusion, he cited an ancient proverb “go far will be from the near, climb high will inferiority” to encourage everyone through the MBA of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics to sail far with dreams.
MBA admission policy for 2022
The final session of the press conference attended the announcement of the admission policy for 2022 made by Feng Da, Brand Director of the MBA Center of the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Feng started with the eight questions extremely concerned to students, and introduced the MBA program of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and admission policy in 2022. Among them, the enrollment scale and tuition fee remain unchanged, and the freshman scholarship will carry on the same schedule as of 2021. The schedulable follows rules with the establishment of Outstanding Talent Scholarship, Full Scholarship, and Partial Scholarship. In addition, Feng emphasized the need for inspection of the applicants of four classes to discover the genuine scenario of students in global, integrated elite, financial investment, and EMBA classes. Even, she comprehensively interpreted the “W+D” pre-interview policy. After the announcement of the enrollment policy, Feng produced answers in details to the high-frequency and generic questions raised by the candidates and encouraged them to sustain their breakthroughs along with the preparation and study journey. She wished that every dream-seeker can achive a new motivation to climb up the peak of their career and life at the MBA program of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
30 years on the road, 30 years in its prime. The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, MBA, has developed a distinctive style of business education. The style is diverse from the west, inclusive, to reap brilliant results. In the future, the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, MBA will also meet the needs of the times, lead the times, go steadily for a long time. Furthermore, the school continuously provides wisdom and strength to the country’s economic development. At the same time, the project also looks forward to working with the business elite of lofty aspirations to open up the subsequent phase of the workplace and life. The projects on top includes increased possibilities to the realization of self-worth.
A few highlights from the press conference
