Getting ahead in the business world and achieving your full career potential can depend on whom you know as much as on what you know. Rising executives with an eye to advancement appreciate any chance that comes their way to widen their circle of contacts, both in their own sector or industry, across the full spectrum of international business.
One of the major benefits of the EMBA-Global Asia programme is that it will allow them to do just that. In the course of the programme, participants will meet and study alongside middle and senior managers from leading organisations in Hong Kong and around the region, many of them no doubt destined to reach the very top in their respective fields.
During overseas modules and international assignments, Hong Kong-enrolled students will meet their direct counterparts at Columbia Business School (CBS) and London Business School (LBS), and distinguished professors and notable guest speakers. The resulting exchanges of ideas and information will not only offer new and contrasting perspectives, but also lay the foundations for a truly global network of friends and personal contacts.
Gary Biddle, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), said participants would inevitably learn an enormous amount from each other. Classmates would remain close friends with people with whom they could share problems, seek advice and discuss career moves. 'This is such a powerful advantage when you have executive friends in many different institutions,' he said.
Just as significantly, though, graduates of the EMBA-Global Asia programme will also become alumni of all three universities. This will give them access to a veritable who's who of alumni and offer them unequalled opportunities to make new acquaintances and build a network that stretches around the world.
'They will be part of a network with chapters which are active in all the main regional business centres,' said Peter Fong, director of EMBA and executive programmes at the HKU.