The World Knowledge Forum (WKF)’s global MBA sessions, which have attracted a lot of participants every year, will come back with even more enriched contents this year.

A total of six business schools have confirmed their participation in the forum: INSEAD, IE Business School, New York University Stern School of Business, HEC Paris, Peking University's Guanghua School of Management and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB).

The INSEAD MBA sessions, flagship lectures of the WKF, will feature keywords of ‘network’ and ‘innovation’.

Henrich Greve, professor of entrepreneurship at INSEAD, will focus on exploring corporate strategies to create synergies in an era of networking. He will explain the factors that determine a company’s success or failure despite horizontal and vertical strategic partnerships among numerous corporations and present solutions concerning what kind of strategies are needed to reap benefits from networking.

Manuel Sosa, associate professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD, will share with participants knowhow for creating innovative capabilities, which has recently emerged as a desperate task for companies. Spain-based IE Business School, which has grabbed attention every year with unique sessions, will once again delve into the themes of humanities and history.

Enrique Dans, professor at IE Business School, will center on the changing era, where the capacity for human-oriented management is taking on importance, and talk about ways to link personal relationship with corporate performance from a perspective of humanities.

Gonzalo Garland, professor at IE Business School, will bring a fresh theme of targeting emerging markets by understanding history. The professor claims that looking back on major management trends in the last 20 years would enable us to forecast and be prepared for new trends in the future.

New York University Stern School of Business, which represents the world’s finance hub Wall Street, will present ‘property and finance’ as a key topic for this year’s lecture. Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh will offer the latest outlook for the real estate market, which has been away from the public attention since the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, and property-related finance including REITs and mortgage.

HEC Paris, this year again, will deliver lectures with the theme of ‘Luxury Goods and Luxury Market’ that befits the nation of luxury goods. HEC Paris is Europe’s premier business school founded by the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris in 1881.

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) which firstly visits the WKF this year will present secrets behind the success of China’s emerging IT industry.

It will elaborate on how Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent excelled the global giants to reap success and examine the current status of the new industries within China.

Peking University's Guanghua School of Management will speak with the theme of ‘Finance in China 2.0: From Shadow Banking to Alipay’ at the forum. It will deliver lectures about destructive innovation sweeping across China’s financial sector including banking and non-banking sectors such as securities and insurance. 


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