BiMBA Wins Top Award in Business Education
Dec 01-2020
The Tencent Business School Development Forum came to its eighth edition on November 12th and centered on the digital transformation of business education in the post-pandemic era. In the ensuing award ceremony, BiMBA and its dean, Prof. Chen Chunhua, brought home the top prize in their respective category.
BiMBA was awarded for setting the high bar in business education, and Prof. Chen was recognized for her outstanding contribution to business education in China. The forum was jointly organized by Tencent News and Tencent Education, both affiliated with the Internet behemoth Tencent.
Prof. Chen Chunhua delivered a keynote speech on the self-transformation of business education. She said that starkly different from the industrial age when the core of management rested on resource and capability, the digital era ushers in the temporal dimension to managerial and industrial systems and consequently the speed of change reigns supreme. Digitalization has brought about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, exerting fundamental changes on productivity, productive relationships and economic growth engine. Meanwhile, it has reshaped the demand for talents and required business schools to adjust their way of grooming talents. The key to future-oriented education, she said, was to unleash the inner potential of students. Only by opening up disciplinary, learning and school boundaries, can business education achieve self-transformation.
About the National School of Development (NSD)
With economics at its core, the NSD is a multi-discipline comprehensive institute at Peking University. It’s formerly known as China Center for Economic Research, founded in 1994 by six doctors in economics, including Prof. Justin Lin Yifu, who had all returned from overseas study. The subsequent years saw the joining of more scholars and development in research and pedagogy, and in 2008 it was re-named the National School of Development.
The NSD prides itself on a strong faculty made up of leading Chinese scholars in economics, management, political science, educational economics and demography, among others. Adhering to the PKU’s spirit of all-inclusiveness and harmony in diversity, the NSD spares no efforts to contribute to China’s advancement by being highly focused on China’s practical issues and committed to the fusion of academics and reality. In the course of over 20 years, the NSD has grown into a comprehensive institute with three major branches: pedagogy, research, and think tank, and is an integral part of PKU in its efforts to develop into a world-leading university.
MBA Programs at the NSD
BiMBA Business School at the NSD is the bellwether of business education in China. Founded in 1998 and operated by the NSD, BiMBA harnesses world-class business education resources while staying true to the humanity care of PKU. This is where east meets west and knowledge meets actions. As a forerunner and leader in Sino-foreign cooperative educational programs, BiMBA now offers two international MBA programs: PKU-UCL MBA and PKU-Vlerick MBA, both of which begin a new academic year every autumn.
