The Center for Leadership Development and Research held a forum themed “The Truth of Management” with the support of the 2010 full-time MBA Program of the School.

The forum also functions as an open class for the “Managerial Thinking and Communications” course in the MBA curriculum. Lecturers of the course all participated in the event, including Professor YANG Bin of the Department of Business Strategy and Policy, Professor QIAN Xiaojun of the Department of Management Science and Engineering, and Professor JIANG Peng of the Business Law Teaching Group.

Professor YANG Bin talking at the forum

The event was composed of themed speeches and round-table forums. Speakers and forum participants are all 2010 full time MBA students.

The speeches talked about “Best Organization and Best Employees”, “Reform and Transformation”, “The Truth of Management”, while forum partakers developed their discussion around the importance of business strategies and transformations.

MBA students delivering a speech

Professor YANG Bin commented on the student discussion, and raised a few points about management education. He said, MBA education should link closely with work practice in the real world. Students should adopt a critical mode of thinking to tackle the business reality. “On top of systematic management knowledge, students should also acknowledge the importance of common sense,” said Professor YANG Bin.