Guanghua School of Management
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The Guanghua School of Management(光华管理学院) of the Peking University
is a business school
in China. The School is staffed with about 100 full-time teaching faculty members. About half of the faculty earned their Ph.D degrees from prestigious universities overseas. Some universities represented by recently recruited faculty members are Harvard
, Oxford
, Yale
, University of California, Berkeley
, Stanford
, Carnegie Mellon
, Brown
, and Purdue
. The School offers Undergraduate, Specialized Master and Doctoral programs, with a total enrollment of more than 3,000 students. Guanghua won first place as the most Influential MBA of China in a ranking conducted by the World Executive. In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
the school was ranked 19th in the Asia Pacific region. In addition to full-time academic programs, the School also runs an EMBA program and MPAcc program, as well as several other non-degree Executive Development
Programs.
established the faculty of Economic Management and the Center of Scientific Management
; in 1993 the faculty of Economic Management and the Center of Scientific Management merged to become Peking University’s School of Business Administration. The name was changed in 1994 to honor the generous donation from the Guanghua Education Foundation in Hong Kong
.
Guanghua has extensive collaboration and exchange programs with leading international institutions such as the Kellogg Graduate School of Management
of Northwestern University
, the Queen's School of Business
at Queen's University
, INSEAD
, ESSEC
, the Wharton School
at the University of Pennsylvania
, Seoul National University
, the University of Mannheim
, the Zeppelin University
, the Fuqua School of Management
at Duke University
, and Stanford Business School
. With the launching of an MBA program in Shenzhen and an international MBA program on the Beijing campus in 2000, Guanghua continues to expand its network world wide.
s, Bachelors degree
, Master’s Degree
and Doctor’s Degree. For its Bachelors Degree, GSM offers 3 specializations, Finance, Accounting and Marketing; as for its Masters Degree there are 9 specializations: Finance, Industrial Economics, Enterprise Management
, Accounting, Statistics, Management Science and Engineering, Masters of Business Administration, Executive MBA and MPAcc; for its Doctor’s Degree, GSM has 4 specializations: National Economics, Finance, Industrial Economics and Enterprise Management, with National Economics being a highly emphasized discipline by the state.
system – this plan was later widely accepted in the country. As a result of his accomplishments, Li has received several honors for his work. He is the winner of the Sun Yefang
Economics Award and the Golden Triangle Award. In addition, he was given the International Cooperation Award of Environment and Development, one of the highest honors in the Chinese economic world. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary social science doctorate degree
by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
. In April 2005, Professor Li Yining was awarded honorary dean by Peking University’s vice principal and Party vice Party secretary, Professor Wu Zhipan.
. His D. Phil. supervisors were James Mirrlees
(1996 Nobel Laureate) and Donald Hay. Between 1984 and 1990, he was a research fellow of the Economic System Reform Institute of China under the State Commission of Restructuring Economic System. During this period, he was heavily involved in economic reform policy making in China. He was the first Chinese economist who proposed the “dual-track price system
reform” (in 1984). He was also known for his contributions to macro-control
policy debating, ownership reform debating, and entrepreneurship studies. After he graduated from Oxford, he co-founded China Center for Economic Research
(CCER), Peking University in 1994, and worked with the Center first as an associate professor
and then as a professor until August, 1997. He then moved to Guanghua School of Management in September, 1997.
Peking University
Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida , is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the...
is a business school
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
in China. The School is staffed with about 100 full-time teaching faculty members. About half of the faculty earned their Ph.D degrees from prestigious universities overseas. Some universities represented by recently recruited faculty members are Harvard
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Oxford
University of Oxford
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, Yale
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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, Stanford
Stanford University
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, Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon University
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, Brown
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, and Purdue
Purdue University
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. The School offers Undergraduate, Specialized Master and Doctoral programs, with a total enrollment of more than 3,000 students. Guanghua won first place as the most Influential MBA of China in a ranking conducted by the World Executive. In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
QS Global 200 Business Schools Report
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the school was ranked 19th in the Asia Pacific region. In addition to full-time academic programs, the School also runs an EMBA program and MPAcc program, as well as several other non-degree Executive Development
Executive development
Executive development is the whole of activities aimed at developing the skills and competencies of those that have executive positions in organisations. While "executive" and "manager" and "leader" are often used interchangeably, "executive" is commonly used to signify the top 5% to 10% of the...
Programs.
History
In 1985 Peking UniversityPeking University
Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida , is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the...
established the faculty of Economic Management and the Center of Scientific Management
Scientific management
Scientific management, also called Taylorism, was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management...
; in 1993 the faculty of Economic Management and the Center of Scientific Management merged to become Peking University’s School of Business Administration. The name was changed in 1994 to honor the generous donation from the Guanghua Education Foundation in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
.
Mission
Just as China is in a dynamic state of change, the School finds itself in the position of meeting the future challenges facing the world economies. Through its educational initiatives, Guanghua seeks to enable its graduates to develop and implement responsible and innovative successful business solutions.Guanghua has extensive collaboration and exchange programs with leading international institutions such as the Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Kellogg School of Management
The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
of Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, the Queen's School of Business
Queen's School of Business
The Queen's School of Business is located in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since 2006, the Queen's School of Business MBA program has been ranked by Business Week number one internationally, outside the United States. The school of business became its own faculty in 1963 with its...
at Queen's University
Queen's University
Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
, INSEAD
INSEAD
INSEAD is an international graduate business school and research institution. It has campuses in Europe , Asia , and the Middle East , as well as a research center in Israel...
, ESSEC
ESSEC
ESSEC is one of the foremost business schools and Grandes Écoles in France and one of Europe’s top business schools. It was created by Jesuits in 1907 and was originally located in the heart of Paris, next to the University of Paris II: Panthéon-Assas, rue d'Assas...
, the Wharton School
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wharton was the world’s first collegiate business school and the first business school in the United States...
at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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, Seoul National University
Seoul National University
Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...
, the University of Mannheim
University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim is one of the younger German universities. It offers Bachelor, Master, and PhD degrees.The University is mainly located in Mannheim’s palace the largest baroque palace in Germany. The whole city center of Mannheim is aligned symmetrically to the palace.About 800 scholars...
, the Zeppelin University
Zeppelin University
Zeppelin University is a highly-selective, top-ranked, privately-funded research university in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The university was founded in 2003.- Overview :...
, the Fuqua School of Management
Fuqua School of Business
The Fuqua School of Business is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, United States. It currently enrolls 1,340 students in degree-seeking programs...
at Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
, and Stanford Business School
Stanford Graduate School of Business
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is one of the professional schools of Stanford University, in Stanford, California and is broadly regarded as one of the best business schools in the world.The Stanford GSB offers a general management Master of Business Administration degree, the Sloan...
. With the launching of an MBA program in Shenzhen and an international MBA program on the Beijing campus in 2000, Guanghua continues to expand its network world wide.
Departments and Program
GSM offers three academic degreeAcademic degree
An academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
s, Bachelors degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
, Master’s Degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
and Doctor’s Degree. For its Bachelors Degree, GSM offers 3 specializations, Finance, Accounting and Marketing; as for its Masters Degree there are 9 specializations: Finance, Industrial Economics, Enterprise Management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
, Accounting, Statistics, Management Science and Engineering, Masters of Business Administration, Executive MBA and MPAcc; for its Doctor’s Degree, GSM has 4 specializations: National Economics, Finance, Industrial Economics and Enterprise Management, with National Economics being a highly emphasized discipline by the state.
Affiliated Research Centers
GSM researches actively in its disciplines, facilities that research under GSM includes: Peking University’s Center of Management Science, Peking University Finance and Bond Research Center, Peking University International Accounting and Financial Affairs Research Center, Peking University Financial Mathematics and Financial Engineering Research Center, Peking University Network Economy Research Center, Peking University Business Administration Research Center, Peking University International Operation Management Research Center, Peking University Center of Chinese Medium-Small Enterprise Development, Peking University Research Center of Investment in the 21st Century, Peking University Enterprise Management Case Study Research Center, Peking University Research Center of Economic Analysis and Forecast, Peking University Complex Scientific Modeling Research Center, Peking University China and WTO Research Center, Peking University Guanghua School of Management Chinese Enterprise Management Research Center, Peking University Guanghua School of Management International Finance Research Center, Peking University Sociological Economic System Analysis and Modeling Laboratories, Peking University National High Technology Estate Development Strategy Research Center etc…Li Yining
Professor Li Yining was the first dean of GSM. Li is a highly regarded economist who has been involved in economic reforms in China. He is credited as developing an imbalanced economy theory that used research on economic practices between China and other countries. Li later proposed an idea to reform the Chinese economy with a joint-stockJoint stock company
A joint-stock company is a type of corporation or partnership involving two or more individuals that own shares of stock in the company...
system – this plan was later widely accepted in the country. As a result of his accomplishments, Li has received several honors for his work. He is the winner of the Sun Yefang
Sun Yefang
Sun Yefang was a pioneering Chinese economist.He studied at Sun Yat-sen University and after graduation, he taught political economy and translation at Zhongshan University and at Moscow East Worker University....
Economics Award and the Golden Triangle Award. In addition, he was given the International Cooperation Award of Environment and Development, one of the highest honors in the Chinese economic world. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary social science doctorate degree
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University specialises in professional education in Hong Kong. The University’s teaching units are grouped under six faculties and two schools; the Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Construction and Environment, Faculty of...
. In April 2005, Professor Li Yining was awarded honorary dean by Peking University’s vice principal and Party vice Party secretary, Professor Wu Zhipan.
Zhang Weiying
Professor Weiying Zhang graduated with a bachelor degree in 1982, and a master degree in 1984, from Northwestern University at Xi’an. He received his M. Phil. in economics in 1992 and D. Phil. in economics from Oxford UniversityUniversity of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. His D. Phil. supervisors were James Mirrlees
James Mirrlees
Sir James Alexander Mirrlees is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998....
(1996 Nobel Laureate) and Donald Hay. Between 1984 and 1990, he was a research fellow of the Economic System Reform Institute of China under the State Commission of Restructuring Economic System. During this period, he was heavily involved in economic reform policy making in China. He was the first Chinese economist who proposed the “dual-track price system
Price system
In economics, a price system is any economic system that affects its distribution of goods and services with prices and employing any form of money. Except for possible remote and primitive communities, all modern societies use price systems to allocate resources...
reform” (in 1984). He was also known for his contributions to macro-control
Macro-control
Macroeconomic regulation and control often abbrevicated Macro-control refers to the use of direct government intervention by the central government of the People's Republic of China to cool down the overheated economy. The policy was first introduced in 1993 by Zhu Rongji, Premier of the People's...
policy debating, ownership reform debating, and entrepreneurship studies. After he graduated from Oxford, he co-founded China Center for Economic Research
China Center for Economic Research
The China Center for Economic Research is an economics think tank in Peking University, China. It was opened in August 1994, and is directed by Justin Yifu Lin....
(CCER), Peking University in 1994, and worked with the Center first as an associate professor
Professor
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and then as a professor until August, 1997. He then moved to Guanghua School of Management in September, 1997.