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ZW: I have a question about faculty and the involvement of industry in teaching. What is the level of involvement of industry-based speakers? Are they just visitors that deliver occasional seminars or are they part-time faculty members? JW: In our School, most of the new faculty members are graduate students from the international Business School. They come back to China to work in Business Schools. We have our Triangle Programme, in which young professionals come to our School and
connect with the research team, one business, and the [taught] programme. They must connect with one company or one industry; for example, healthcare. They must carry out research and look into new business models and strategies in this sector. Then, after three years, they can go to the classroom to give lectures and do research. We have a special fund to support young faculty to go into companies and become consultants, to do surveys or investigations. We help young people to go to the industries and companies, to survey and do special research (for example, leadership, entrepreneurship, strategy or the supply chain); to write the research cases and teaching cases. This is an important indicator for our evaluation and for our promotion. ZW: At this challenging time, we are thinking about the next 30 years of the development of Chinese business education. A recent trend in Business Schools is a move towards responsibility/responsible management education and sustainability. We have been talking about sustainable management, sustainable education, and entrepreneurship. I would like to ask the deans joining me about how sustainability and responsibility can be
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