Jiangnan University MBA teachers and students successfully completed the ‘American Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project’ visiting task
2019-10-16
From October 6 to 12, 2019, under the leadership of Li Jiamin, Secretary of the Party committee of the school of business, and sun Junmin, director of MBA Education Center, the visiting group of MBA teachers and students of Jiangnan University went to California to visit Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Google, NVIDIA, plug & play, LinkedIn, No.8 design company and other well-known universities and enterprises, Successfully completed the study task and returned to China. The visiting group of teachers and students walked into Stanford University to learn about the historical development, discipline structure and innovation culture of Stanford University, and listened to the academic lecture ‘Silicon Valley Innovation Core, application ability and method of design thinking ability" by Tamara Carleton, the tutor of entrepreneurship college, with the theme of "business design innovation". At the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Naeem Zafar from the Haas School of Business gave special lecture on the most cutting-edge practical application of artificial intelligence in various fields and the innovation and business trend of Silicon Valley with the theme of "Silicon Valley upsurge - the trend of shaping our world and why Silicon Valley is successful". He also gave a lecture on the topics related to science and technology, enterprise operation, international trade, financing, innovation and business trend put forward by students’ corporate social responsibility and other issues one by one interactive answers. The frontier theoretical knowledge and practical cases taught by the two professors bring fresh inspiration to the students. During the visit, teachers and students visited a number of well-known Silicon Valley companies. Go to Google to understand its corporate culture, organizational structure and technological innovation strategy, and discuss the future development trend of artificial intelligence together; walk into Nvidia to deeply experience the wide application of AI chips in various fields, the development of main business and the advantages of software ecological construction; enter the world’s top incubator accelerator PLUG & PLAY, experience its mature and efficient business incubation and accelerator’s business operation model and its help for innovative development enterprises; walk into LINKEDIN, the world’s largest professional social networking company, to interpret its business development, technological leadership and corporate culture after its acquisition by Microsoft; walk into the well-known No. 8 Design Company in Silicon Valley to learn how to design the ultimate user interaction experience products for customers; in the INTEL Museum, they can get a close look at the historical objects and development stories of the company from its establishment to the current growth; in the visitor center of Apple headquarters and Tesla experience store, experienced the ultimate technology experience brought by the latest technologies and products of these two well-known companies. During this trip, the teachers and students of the MBA visiting group used well-known companies as examples of study and discussion, combined with their theoretical knowledge and work experience, and intuitively understood and personally experienced the characteristics of business innovation in the Silicon Valley region from the nearest distance and received a lot of goods from this rewarding and worthwhile trip.
Jiangnan University's MBA Education Center passed the AMBA international certification in January 2018, which was used as a developmental opportunity for the internationalization of the MBA program to vigorously promote the in-depth cooperation and exchange process with famous universities at home and abroad and well-known companies. This is also the development of the Jiangnan University MBA program, which is also one of the important strategic goals. In the future, the MBA Education Center will plan and organize more high-quality MBA overseas classroom learning activities to provide students with better international learning opportunities.
Jiangnan University MBA teachers and students visited Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Professor Naeem Zafar gave lectures to our MBA visiting group
Jiangnan University MBA teachers and students visited Google
Jiangnan University MBA teachers and students visited LINKEDIN
Jiangnan University MBA teachers and students visited PLUG & PLAY
