Mainland MBA seeks to boost management skills in Hong Kong

For 55 years, the Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA) has been striving to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of management, both in Hong Kong and regionally.

One of its main means of achieving this goal has been providing and promoting educational and training opportunities for members.

Amongst the range of new and world-class management programmes the HKMA has recently launched is an MBA programme delivered by the Fudan University School of Management.

“The introduction of this programme goes hand in hand with our vision and mission,” explains Glover Chan, senior manager in the HKMA marketing department. “Our vision is to be the leading professional organisation advancing management excellence in Hong Kong and the region. Our mission is to promote best practice in management, to nurture human capital through management education and training at all levels, and to provide members with a platform for the exchange of ideas, for networking and for personal development.

“We offer a broad range of training and education opportunities for executives in Hong Kong. To help achieve this, we bring in overseas university programmes such as those from the UK and from Australia, to be delivered in Hong Kong. Yet, being an international city, and being a SAR of China, Hong Kong also needs to look to the mainland, where the future potential is most abundant,” Chan adds.

The MBA programme HKMA will run in conjunction with the Fudan faculty is part-time. “Professors from Fudan will fly to Hong Kong to deliver the programme, except for a few sessions that will take place in Shanghai,” Chan explains. “These include an introduction at the start of the programme, a study tour in the middle, and the graduation at the end.”