The Sloan MBA China Trip - Spring 1997

Twenty-five MBA students from the MIT Sloan School of Management visited Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong in March to tour manufacturing facilities, financial institutions, government agencies and other business organizations. The incredible growth of this region presents tremendous business opportunities which we were interested in examining firsthand.

Students participating in the trip were required to take the Business in China's Emerging Market course (15.228) taught by Prof. Edward S. Steinfeld.

By setting up a permanent web site for the trip, we hope we can share the experience of our trip with the rest of the MIT community and others who are interested in the region. We also hope this site will serve as a reference for those who will plan similar trips in the future.

Trip Members

Mr. Carmon Cunningham

Director of Sloan Alumni/ae Relations

Junichi Suzuki Trip Leader

Christine Albertelli	Douglas Bohn	Lizabeth Cutler
Lisa Dorsey	May Yan	Marlene Awyoung
John Book	Jeremy Clifford	Taylor Driggs
Michelle Eggert	Ivan Hajadi	Denise Kalule
Junko Kimura	Chian Der Liang	Frank Martelli
Kenji Mastubara	James Murphy	David Noble
Seiji Nozawa	Eugene Shen	Naoki Shimada
Rudianto Sudargo	Silvan Wyss	Peggy P.C. Yu

Our Hosts

Beijing

Capital Steel China International Trust & Investment Company (CITIC) China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) IMF / World Bank Motorola (Tianjin) Peking University Tsinghua University

Shanghai

Fudan University Microtek Lab Inc. Price Waterhouse The Pudong New Area Shanghai Stock Exchange Township Village Enterprises (TVE)

Hong Kong

Bank of China Booz Allen & Hamilton

Top Ten Reasons Why the China Trip was a Blast

10. Ten-course meals

9. Good questions ( ... no answers)

8. "Be ready for smells, crowds, sickness; don't get angry, don't shout..." - NOT

7. The jet lag that keeps going and going and going ...

6. Frankie

5. China's funniest Corporate Video

4. The most diplomatic, eloquent MIT rep of any trip ... Carmon!

3. The House (disco in Beijing)

2. Chicken heads, duck tongues, snake soup and white-laced cushy chairs

1. Learning all about a market of 1,200,000,000

Trip Photos

Beijing

1. Frank and Jim found a way to beat the Beijing traffic

2. Enjoying our cuisine at the student canteen in Tsinghua University

3. Cultural exchange activity with Tsinghua University students (JJ Disco)

4. Frankie, our tour guide, and his golden mike ("... and tonight's dinner is... Peking duck!")

5. Doug trying to get some fresh air in Beijing

6. All set for the Great Wall climb

7. Junichi and Silvan waiting for their turn

8. Carmon after conquering the Great Wall

9. Silvan riding home to the hotel

10. Junko, Marlene and ... Diet Coke at Ming Tomb

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Shanghai

11. The Sloan bowling team took Shanghai

12. With Mr Yau, President of Microtek, in Pudong

13. Eugene appreciating Beijing opera show

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More to come soon ...

Archieve - Previous Trips

(Under Construction)

For those who went there before us, do you have any photos or stories to share ? Please send me a note if you want to help make this site more exciting.

1995 Trip

1996 Trip

Some Useful Links for Trip Members

Our Main Sponsors :

Microtek Lab, Inc.

Jefferies Pacific Ltd.

First published : February 17, 1997. Last update : September 27, 1997 Access count since February 17, 1997 :

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