Guanghua School of Management

The Guanghua School of Management(光华管理学院), Peking University is one of the best business schools in China. The School is staffed with about 100 full-time teaching faculty members. About half of the faculty earned their Ph.D degrees from prestigious universities overseas. Some universities represented by recently recruited faculty members are Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, Purdue, and University of California at Berkeley. The School offers Undergraduate, Specialized Master and Doctoral programs, with a total enrollment of more than 3,000 students. Guanghua won first place as the most Influential MBA of China in a ranking conducted by the World Executive. In addition to full-time academic programs, the School also runs an EMBA program and MPAcc program, as well as several other non-degree Executive Development Programs.

History

In 1985 Peking University established the faculty of Economic Management and the Center of Scientific Management; in 1993 the faculty of Economic Management and the Center of Scientific Management merged to become Peking University’s School of Business Administration. The name was changed in 1994 to honor the generous donation from the Guanghua Education Foundation in Hong Kong. [ [http://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn/article/496/4968.html Who We Are ] ]

Mission

Just as China is in a dynamic state of change, the School finds itself in the position of meeting the future challenges facing the world economies. Through its educational initiatives, Guanghua seeks to enable its graduates to develop and implement responsible and innovative successful business solutions.

Guanghua has extensive collaboration and exchange programs with leading international institutions such as the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, INSEAD, ESSEC, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Fuqua School of Management at Duke University, and Stanford Business School. With the launching of an MBA program in Shenzhen and an international MBA program on the Beijing campus in 2000, Guanghua continues to expand its network world wide. [ [http://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn/article/15/88.html 学院介绍 ] ]

Motto

To advance management knowledge and develop business leaders for China and the global society.

Statistics

Student Enrollment: 3,181 Undergraduate students 672 Master students 313 Ph.D students 161 MBA students 1330 EMBA students 560 MPAcc students 145 Full-time Faculty Members: 100 Professors 32 Associate Professors 40 Assistant Professors 28 Faculty with Ph.D. degrees 85 Faculty with overseas Ph.D. 65 Women faculty members 21

Departments and Program

GSM offers three academic degrees, Bachelors degree, Master’s Degree and Doctor’s Degree. For its Bachelors Degree, GSM offers 3 specializations, Finance, Accounting and Marketing; as for its Masters Degree there are 9 specializations: Finance, Industrial Economics, Enterprise Management, Accounting, Statistics, Management Science and Engineering, Masters of Business Administration, Executive MBA and MPAcc; for its Doctor’s Degree, GSM has 4 specializations: National Economics, Finance, Industrial Economics and Enterprise Management, with National Economics being a highly emphasized discipline by the state. [http://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn/article/37/435.html 研究中心研究所 ] ]

Affiliated Research Centers

GSM researches actively in its disciplines, facilities that research under GSM includes: Peking University’s Center of Management Science, Peking University Finance and Bond Research Center, Peking University International Accounting and Financial Affairs Research Center, Peking University Financial Mathematics and Financial Engineering Research Center, Peking University Network Economy Research Center, Peking University Business Administration Research Center, Peking University International Operation Management Research Center, Peking University Center of Chinese Medium-Small Enterprise Development, Peking University Research Center of Investment in the 21st Century, Peking University Enterprise Management Case Study Research Center, Peking University Research Center of Economic Analysis and Forecast, Peking University Complex Scientific Modeling Research Center, Peking University China and WTO Research Center, Peking University Guanghua School of Management Chinese Enterprise Management Research Center, Peking University Guanghua School of Management International Finance Research Center, Peking University Sociological Economic System Analysis and Modeling Laboratories, Peking University National High Technology Estate Development Strategy Research Center etc…

Notable Administrators and Faculties

Li Yining

Professor Li Yining was the first dean of GSM. Li is a highly regarded economist who has been involved in economic reforms in China. He is credited as developing an imbalanced economy theory that used research on economic practices between China and other countries. Li later proposed an idea to reform the Chinese economy with a joint-stock system – this plan was later widely accepted in the country. As a result of his accomplishments, Li has received several honors for his work. He is the winner of the Sun Yefang Economics Award and the Golden Triangle Award. In addition, he was given the International Cooperation Award of Environment and Development, one of the highest honors in the Chinese economic world. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary social science doctorate degree by Hong Kong University of Technology. In April of 2005, Professor Li Yining was awarded honorary dean by Peking University’s vice principal and Party vice Party secretary, Professor Wu Zhipan. [www.chinavitae.com/biography/Li_Yining]

Zhang Weiying

Professor Weiying Zhang graduated with a bachelor degree in 1982, and a master degree in 1984, from Northwestern University at Xi’an. He received his M. Phil. in economics in 1992 and D. Phil. in economics from Oxford University. His D. Phil. supervisors were James Mirrlees (1996 Nobel Laureate) and Donald Hay. Between 1984 and 1990, he was a research fellow of the Economic System Reform Institute of China under the State Commission of Restructuring Economic System. During this period, he was heavily involved in economic reform policy making in China. He was the first Chinese economist who proposed the “dual-track price system reform” (in 1984). He was also known for his contributions to macro-control policy debating, ownership reform debating, and entrepreneurship studies. After he graduated from Oxford, he co-founded China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University in 1994, and worked with the Center first as an associate professor and then as a professor until August, 1997. He then moved to Guanghua School of Management in September, 1997. [ [http://emc.pku.edu.cn/en/faculty_detail.asp?tid=15 Guanghua School of Management ] ]

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