Gabelli EMBA Students Give Chinese Investors Real Estate Advice
The cohort of executive MBA students at the Gabelli School of Business recently advised the China-based lender CreditEase on the best places for Chinese investment in real estate. The consulting project was part of the EMBA program’s capstone course. The cohort of students gave a presentation to the company on August 19, at the firm’s headquarters in Beijing. For the project, students were asked to identify which U.S. cities offer Chinese investors the best potential return on investment in residential real estate.
The 22 student cohort conducted extensive market research to find the best answer for their client. The result of the research was the recommendation of five US locations; New York City (Queens and the Bronx), Philadelphia, Seattle, Houston and San Francisco. One student in the cohort, Colin Cassidy, explained in a press release for Gabelli that the areas chosen were based on specific criteria for their research, such as how quickly the area recovered from the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the local economy’s strength, unemployment rates, real estate taxes and rent-to-buy ratios.
Carey School of Business Faculty Members Discuss Devalued Chinese Currency in the News
Carey Business School Assistant Professor Alessandro Rebucci and Senior Professional Instructor Roger Staiger were quoted in news stories appearing in The Baltimore Sun and on WBAL-TV, Baltimore’s NBC affiliate, respectively. In separate pieces, the two faculty members discussed the devaluation of the Chinese yuan and its impact on the national and state economies. Continue reading…
Loyola Marymount MBAs Visit Asia
This summer, 35 MBA students from Loyola Marymount University had the opportunity to spend three weeks in Asia as part of their education, according to a press release from the school. The students, who were accompanied by five faculty members as well, made stops in Seoul, Korea, Beijing and Shanghai, China, and Kyoto and Tokyo Japan as part of the Comparative Management Systems (CMS) Program. Continue reading…
Booth School Awaiting Approval of New Facility in Asia
Chicago Booth is excited to be carving out a new outpost in Asia. A project to renovate the historic Mount Davis site, which is in the approval process, would create a University of Chicago center fit to house the Chicago Booth Executive MBA Program in Asia. The site, found within dense urban landscape of Hong Kong, would establish a new intellectual hub in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
First a little history: Mount Davis served as an artillery battery in the 1930s and after World War II was converted to a mess and clubhouse for British officers. It later served as a government detention facility. Continue reading…
Booth Research Analyzes Renewable Energy
New research via University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor John R. Birge and German researchers, Ingmar Ritzenhofen and Professor Stefan Spinler of the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, have comprehensively analyzed the various schemes to support renewable energy generation and find ways to reduce carbon emissions as well as end fossil fuel dependence. Continue reading…
London Business School Held Third China Business Forum
London Business School’s Chinese student community is growing every year and for this, the third China Business Forum they lined up a panel that included authorities on finance, trade and government.
The School’s Dean, Professor Sir Andrew Likierman, said greater ties were needed: “We need only to see the effect on stock markets round the world when the estimate of China’s growth rate is changed (as it has been recently) to see just how central China is to the world economy.”
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