The Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong
University is offering placement programs to help its MBA students gain
industry experience.To get more news about
Antai business college, you can visit acem.sjtu.edu.cn official website.
It
has been the most rewarding experience of my year," said Glenn Budhi
Santoso, a Indonesian student currently enrolled in the international
MBA program offered by Antai College. He participated in one of the
placement programs called the Dragon Team project and served as a team
leader.The Dragon Team project is a consulting program where
participating students solve partner companies' business needs by
applying the knowledge acquired from their MBA courses.
Participants
of the months-long project are jointly selected by the school and the
partner company through resume screening and interview, according to
Santoso.Each Dragon Project team is paired with an industry partner. "A
Fortune 500 fast-moving consumer goods company in my case," he
said.Santoso, the team leader, and three team members "worked together
with the partner company's project champion toward the strategic goal of
the project defined at the beginning", he said.Santoso found the
three-month experience "nothing but very rewarding"."It was the perfect
opportunity to use the knowledge I've learned through the course
material," he said. "This project is not a simulation－rather, it is true
strategy generation for an ongoing vision of our industry partner. "My
team had applied knowledge gained from multiple courses including
operational management, strategic management, business communications
and business analytics to approach our industry partner's vision for
sustainable supply chain," Santoso said.In addition to having been able
to apply classroom knowledge, Santoso said he was also able to learn how
to communicate effectively with different stakeholders, which is
"extremely important for personal development", Santoso said, adding "I
am utterly pleased with how this project has transformed me into a more
professional individual".
Each Dragon Team is assigned an academic
adviser who will help them during the course of the project. Professor
Zhu Qinghua, a "world-recognized authority in the field", was assigned
to Santoso's team."She mentors us in the academic approach to solving
our partner company's needs utilizing her expertise in green industrial
supply chain management," he said.Professionals at the partner company
had also been very helpful, according to Santoso."We received a lot of
guidance and support from our partner company's project champion and
others on the team, and we've even held multiple strategy sessions with
the company's procurement director."
One major learning from the
Dragon Team project for Santoso is that stakeholder management and
communication skills are extremely important."I knew this beforehand,
but this Dragon Team experience showed me a good example of how
efficient a project can be through proper stakeholder management and
effective communication."These two can be learned through textbooks,
said Santoso. "Nevertheless, having the chance to practice and
personally experience it is simply priceless."Santoso, who had worked at
Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia before commencing his MBA studies, is
confident about his future career."I believe the experience with the
Dragon Team project will help me immensely in returning to work
shortly," he said. "The experience of leading a splendid team and
working alongside our partner company's senior management provided me a
confidence boost to embrace my future career."
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