The Fifth President of the Global Business School Forum: Creativity and Entrepreneurship

President of the Global Business School Forum (hereinafter referred to as the President Forum), which is held every two years, is one of the most important brand forums of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Antai College of Economics & Management(SCEM). Since 2006 when first forum was held with success, the President Forum has become an international brand through the development of eight years and four 

sessions. Over 100 business school presidents from home and abroad attended the 

forum each session to share the most advanced wisdom on management education industry. Nowadays, the President Forum has become the most magnificent gathering in Asian-Pacific region, which is next only to the American association of international 

business school and European annual meeting of the international conference on management development foundation. The President Forum has gained much attention among international business schools for its global scales and insights.

Faced with the fragile economic rebound since the financial crisis of 2008, ‘creativity 

and entrepreneurship’ is taken widely as the most effective way to revive economy. 

International market desiderates creativity and actions to boost the economy in a steady and strong way. Several regions including China are creating favorable conditions and 

environments for people to establish enterprises. Business schools, as the cradle of elites, are headstreams of so many successful entrepreneurial cases that they play a key role in 

promoting economic development and flourishing. Therefore, how to cultivate 

management talents with originality and action force deserves reflections for all first-

ranked business schools.

The fifth President Forum is hence aimed at encouraging creativity and 

entrepreneurship by gathering presidents from famous international business schools to share education experiences and what they have gained in the field of creativity 

entrepreneurship so as to seek for more chances to put theory into practice.

Time: Oct. 9-20, 2014

Place: SJTU-ACEM (Fa Hua campus, Fahua Zhen Road No. 535)

Organizer: SJTU-ACEM

Strategic cooperation: European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)

Media support: MBAUniverse.com

Guests: president and vice president of business schools from home and abroad; leading officials from international communication, cooperation and authentication associations; reputable international managers and certified experts.

Agenda: Oct. 9 Thursday 

09:00-15:00    registration

13:00-15:00   seminar 1: new international certification standard in a new management 

education era

Guest speech: professor Eileen Peacock, global vice-president and director general 

(Asian branch) of AACSB; professor Eric Cornuel, director general and chief executive of EFMD; Andrew Main Wilson, director general of AMBA

13:00-15:00   seminar 2: the future of management education: new opportunities for Asian business schools

Guest speech: professor Hellmut Schutte, vice president and academic dean of CEIBS; 

professor Young-Ryeol Park, business school president of Yonsei University of Korea;

 eight Asian business school president (undetermined)

19:30-21:00   welcome banquet

Oct. 10, Friday   

  
08:30      welcome ceremony

09:00-12:15   chief forum: creativity and entrepreneurship

09:30-09:55   speech (1): professor Peter Henry Blair, president of the Stern School of Business of New York University

09:55-10:20   speech (2): professor Alfons Sauquet, president of ESADE Business School 

of Spanish

10:20-10:45   speech (3): professor Gnanalingam Anandalingam, president of British Imperial College Business School

10:45-11:05   tea break

11:05-11:30   speech (4): professor Soumitra Dutta, president of Johnson Graduate 

School of Management at Cornell University

11:30-11:50   speech (5): professor Cai Hongbin, president of Guahua School of Management at Peking University

11:55-12:15   question time

12:15-13:20   lunch time

Guest speech: professor William Boulding, president of Duke University of Fuque Business School

13:30-14:30   speeches given by entrepreneurs (undetermined)

14:40-17:30   sub-forum1: cwhy business school creative education can promote sustainable development? 

15:00-15:20   guest speech 1.A: professor Frank Bournois, president of ESCP

15:20-15:40   guest speech 1.B: professor Fiona Devine, president of the University of 

Manchester Business School

15:40-16:00   tea break

16:00-16:20   guest speech 1.C: professor Emerson de Almeida, chairman of the board of Brazil FDC Business School

16:20-16:40   guest speech 1.D: professor Chris Styles, president of New South Wales University Business School

16:40-17:00   guest speech 1.E: professor Steef Van de Velde, president of Netherlands 

Erasmus University Rotterdam Business School

17:00-17:30 question time

14:30-17:30   sub-forum 2: worldwide insight: creative education of business schools

15:00-15:20   guest speech 2.A: professor Larry Edward Penley, president of Thunderbird 

School of International Management of America

15:20-15:40   guest speech 2.B: professor Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, president of Spanish IE Business School

15:40-16:00   tea break

16:00-16:20   guest speech 2.C: professor Hirokazu Kono, president of Japan's Keio University Business School

16:20-16:40   guest speech 2.D: professor Wu Xiaobo, president of Zhejiang University 

Business School

16:40-17:00   guest speech 2.E: professor Yury Fedotov, president of St. Petersburg 

University School of Management

17:00-17:30   question time

19:30-21:30   appreciation dinner

This forum is free open to EMBA graduates and only 15 seats can be reserved. Reservations for seats will be preserved 15 minutes before the forum officially starts.