Alongside an updated curriculum with an increased emphasis on global immersion, Olin Business School's full-time MBA program was named as the 2019 MBA Program of the Year by Poets&Quants, a distinguished business journal, Jan. 14.To get more news about Shanghai mba, you can visit acem.sjtu.edu.cn official website.
The prestigious award included other significant accomplishments, validating the extensive efforts the program has made to expand its offerings.

Poets&Quants, a magazine focused on the graduate business education market, placed Olin Business School on its list of top 10 MBA programs to watch in 2019. The program was also named the top MBA program in the country for gender equity by the Forte Foundation and the top MBA program in the world for entrepreneurship by Inc. Magazine.

The news came as a pleasant surprise for both students and faculty.

"I woke up to some emails already saying ‘Congratulations' from students, and so I think they are very excited," Ashley Macrander, assistant dean and director of graduate programs, said. "And I think [for] the students that are currently in the application process for next year's class, they are even more excited to join the MBA program of the year."

Olin launched a revamped MBA program during the summer semester of 2019, with an increased focus on global business and direct practical experience for MBA students. According to Dean of Olin Business School, Mark Taylor, the new curriculum took about a year to plan and was prompted by the University's desire to have an increased international outlook.

"Whatever you do, it's very important to have a global perspective, because whatever you do will have global implications," Taylor said. "...Thinking globally about these issues is very important no matter what size of your organization."

For first-year MBA student Lungile Tshuma, Olin's global approach was a major selling point for the program. As a student from Zimbabwe, he hopes to use his business knowledge to aid the development of the country, and he was specifically drawn to the program's global immersion and emphasis on travel.

"I only applied to Olin Business School," Tshuma said. "For people like me that don't get these opportunities as much, for someone like me to come here and to speak and to be listened to, it's powerful."

The MBA program starts with a global immersion program that lasts for six weeks. In 2019, students and faculty traveled to Washington D.C.; Shanghai, China and Barcelona, Spain. In 2020, the program plans to take students to D.C.; Barcelona, Spain; Paris, France and Lima, Peru. Students learn how to use the existing local networks while also figuring out how cultural differences play in the business industry themselves.

Within the Shanghai program, students were first assigned a retail sector to compare to its US market equivalent. Later on, they designed a business plan to launch street donuts in Shanghai. Professor of Organization and Strategy Daniel W. Elfenbein, who led last year's excursion, described the significance of completing the program directly in Shanghai instead of in a classroom in St. Louis.After we've been having students from China for a long time, a lot of important people in China, we were able to bring them into the classroom," Elfenbein said.

Not only did the program equip students with cultural adaptability in the business field, it also created strong bonding within the student community.

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The Lunar New Year, also called the Spring Festival in China, has a date that changes annually, according to the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that occurs from January 21 to February 20. Celebrations begin the day before the start of the new year and continue until a date known as the Lantern Festival, which is February 8 this year.

Like the western zodiac, the Chinese zodiac is divided into 12 houses, but with the difference that each house in the Chinese zodiac lasts for a year rather than a month. There are 12 animals representing the years in the Chinese zodiac cycle, and Rat is the first.The beginning of the Lunar New Year is a time of many superstitions which are believed to influence the coming year. According to tradition, washing clothes, using scissors and sweeping floors on January 25 will bring bad luck for the whole year. Crying children should also be avoided - maybe easier said than done if you're a parent!

However, according to So Man-fung Peter, Hong Kong's most famous fortune-teller, Chinese astrology and feng-shui aren't about predicting exactly what will happen to you this year. Instead, "They're a calculation of probability and a study of statistics," he says.

"It's about finding that law and flow of the universe. When you know how to calculate it, you can predict the trends for everything. If you're enjoying a lucky streak, knowing that may give you the confidence and courage needed to start your own business," he explains. "If you're plagued by bad luck, acknowledging it may help you avoid taking unnecessary risks."