y's Haas School of Business will today ink a cooperation agreement, aiming at increasing Asian leadership training and expanding already existing joint programs with other top business schools worldwide. Accordingly, NTU will host Haas School senior faculty members at its campus to promote research collaboration and to teach an annual one-week program in Taipei on the topics of leadership, marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship.
Later this month, several new partnerships with the NTU and the City University of Hong Kong will also kick off the launch of the new "Berkeley Asia Business Center."
The center will expand already existing joint programs with the National Singapore University and Nanyang Technological University.
The new center will enable Haas School to expand its outreach to Asian alumni, business leaders, and academic communities well beyond its existing programs.
It will provide executive leadership training, advanced management programs, certificates on risk management, and business networking opportunities.
Future targeted regions include China, India, Japan, and Korea.
Various new programs are being offered as part of the center's launch, including Berkeley Asian Fellows, two new Advanced Management Executive Programs, and Berkeley Asia Leadership Conference.
Berkeley Asian Fellows
It is a three-month executive training program taught at UC Berkeley for academic, business, and government leaders from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan through classroom and experiential learning.
The 2008 participants will be known as the Wang Fellows, thanks to Stanley Wang, chairman, founder, and president of Pantronix Corporation, Calif., whose donation will support this program in its first year starting in fall 2008.
Advanced Management Executive Programs
First, NTU will host Haas School senior faculty members at its campus to promote research collaboration and to teach an annual one-week program in Taipei on the topics of leadership, marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship.
The City University of Hong Kong will also partner with the Haas School to bring 60 business managers to Berkeley for five days of executive leadership training in marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship. The agreement will be signed in Hong Kong on Feb. 20.
Berkeley Asia Leadership Conference
An annual Berkeley Asia Leadership Conference will bring together the region's business leadership and feature outstanding CEO speakers and UC Berkeley business professors.
The conference will be held in a different region in Asia each year. The first conference will focus on "The Family Business Challenge" and is scheduled to take place in Singapore in December 2008.
Haas School currently operates an Advanced Management Executive Program with the National University of Singapore (NUS) -- its successful Risk Management Certificate Program now in its second year.
In addition, it has a research exchange program that will send five Haas School finance professors to visit NUS in 2008.
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore recently joined forces with Haas School to bring 30 managers to UC Berkeley for two weeks of advanced management training starting in March 2008.
For more information on the new Asia Business Center, visit http://asiabusiness.haas.berkeley.edu/index.html
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