“Carlson is known to transform students,” Ant Financial Chairman Eric Jing, a Carlson grad, said in a commencement speech to the class of 2017. “I discovered a lot here. A wealth of knowledge, a global perspective and a desire to build more bridges between Carlson and China.”
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The trend of Chinese executives going abroad has only just begun, said Center for China and Globalization’s Wang.
“It’s going to increase because there are more business people who want to go study, there are more new problems, new challenges that need to be learned about,” he said. “The market economy was not started here that long ago so it’s quite natural for them to go to different B schools and have further studies.”
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