Welcome to McCombs Global Connections China 2007!

The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, in partnership with the Aetna School of Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, offers US and Chinese based companies MBA consulting teams to conduct research and identify opportunities and challenges of marketing products or services between the two countries.
UT-Austin and Chinese MBA students will jointly work on these projects, which can include investment analysis, market analysis, market segmentation, distribution channel analysis, competitor analysis, best- practice pricing, packaging or positioning strategies, human resources management, supply chain or procurement, or US-China office collaboration. This practicum offers students a global business learning experience focusing on international business challenges.
For the fifth year, we are including this practicum exposing our US students to doing business in China, and our Chinese students to doing business in the United States.

Program's Objective
 The program's objective is to give US and Chinese MBAs a practical international business experience and to deliver a meaningful product to project sponsors.

This global program includes three components:
(1) six preparatory lectures on the cultural, socio-economic and political backdrop of doing business in China and several post-trip seminars
(2) a 16-day trip to China from March 2-17, 2007
(3) consulting projects for a private or public corporation doing business or wanting to do business in China

We intend to collaborate in the projects with student teams from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Aetna School of Management. The students will not only work from their respective campuses during the semester, they will also work on these projects while in Shanghai. And, they will deliver to you a final presentation and the final report.

McCombs School of Business: McCombs students join one of the country's oldest business schools and most distinguished public universities, fostering a tradition of excellence in business education since 1922.
The mission of the McCombs School of Business is to educate the business leaders of tomorrow while creating knowledge that has critical significance for industry and society. The goal of the school is to become the best public business school in the nation.

Aetna School of Management: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Aetna School of Management was recently ranked the top MBA program in Mainland China by Asia Inc. Magazine. As one of only three top-tier universities in Shanghai, the city emerging as the number one business center in China, Aetna has a unique advantage as a business school. The University includes Jiang Zemin, former President and Communist Party Chair, among its distinguished alumni.