MING-JER CHEN        PhD, MBA.

MANAGERS & EXECUTIVES

Over the years I have been very involved in corporate consulting and teaching managers and executives in different parts of the world. These activities have taken the form of open enrollment and customized programs, either organized through the academic institutions with which I’ve been affiliated (Columbia, Wharton, and Darden) or independently conducted by me. My independent consulting and teaching clients include Morgan Stanley and Bristol-Myers Squibb (U.S.); the State Economic and Trade Commission, Kelon Electric Holdings, and the People’s Construction Bank of China (China); the Institute for Information Industry, BenQ, AUO, the Aspire (Acer) Academy, and the Ruentex Group (Taiwan); and the Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (Hong Kong). I have always enjoyed this work, which has ranged from problem solving to strategy development to sessions on competitive dynamics, global competition, and Chinese business-related topics.   

In the past several years, I have delivered speeches to prominent business organizations around the world, including the keynote speech to the World Economic Forum’s China Business Summit 2000 in Beijing. Other executive outreach activities include speeches at Munich Re, Alcoa, AIG American General, FedEx, the USA-China Chamber of Commerce, and the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong.  The topics of these addresses are wide-ranging but center on strategic and cultural concerns for business interactions in a global context.

Inside Chinese Business

–   Book Review by Foreign Affairs

Business Articles

–        Chen, Ming-Jer. 2006.  “Chinese Business Oversea Expansion: Lessons of and Implications from the Three Recent Cases” (in Chinese), Peking University Business Review, 3(20): 29-33. 

–        Chen, Ming-Jer. 2006.  “FedEx in China” (in Chinese), Business Management Review, August 2006: 22-26. 

–        Chen, Ming-Jer. 2004. “Forward: Wall Street Meets Great Wall,” in Anu Gulati and Angela Li (eds.), Kellogg on China: Successful Strategies, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press; xi-xvii

Corporate and Executive Teaching

Executive and Public Speeches

–   “Development and Prospects of the Business in China” presented at Special Management Program, hosted by HSM Group, Milano, Italy, November 20-21 2007.

-  "Chinese Business Expansion and Leapfrogging in Global Competition" (in English and in Chinese) presented at The China CEO Forum, Beijing, November 3, 2007.

–  “Inside Chinese Business: A Strategic and Cultural Perspective” presented at Special Management Program China-India, World Business Forum, hosted by HSM Group, Milano, November 22-23, 2007.

–   “Inside Chinese Business” presented at Special Management Program, hosted by HSM Group, Sao Paulo, Brasil, May 22-23 2007.

–  “Inside Chinese Business: A Strategic-Cultural Perspective” presented at Expomanagement Argentina 2006, hosted by HSM Group, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

–  “Overseas Expansion of Chinese Business: Lessons and Challenges” (in English and in Chinese), presented at  Beijing Symposium: China in Global Economy, Hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and China Development Bank, Beijing, China, September 19, 2006.

–  “Private Sector: Opportunities for SMEs in China”(in English and in Chinese), presented at The Hamburg Summit: China Meets Europe, Hamburg, Germany, November 26, 2004.

–  “Working with the Chinese—Now and Forever,” presented at The Second Annual U.S.-China Trade Conference, hosted by U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, IL, October 25, 2001.

Program Development