On March 14, 2013, CLGO

first-year students took part in a cross-cultural communication activity named the “Shanghai Scavenger Hunt” with global senior managers from Fresenius Medical Care. Two students and two managers were assigned to team up randomly and compete with other seven teams to finish a list of tasks in Shanghai’s downtown area. The goal: finish with the least money and time. The students packed a lot of experiences and learn-ing into a short time period. During the trip, we took photos of the whole team playing Chinese musical instruments and dressed in traditional

Chinese costumes. Also we had to collect items representing the culture of our team and find items standing for the Five Phases “Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth” in tradi-tional Chinese philosophy. This competition was a vivid lesson of cross-cultural communication for us, as each cross-cultural team logged dozens of miles and visited different local places, bridged the cultural gap and reached the goals. We took this activity as a pretty good case for our course “Communication for Managers”, and shared feelings and findings in class. - MIN Sihai (CLGO2012)

This month we interviewed Jim Freedman, Vice

President, Leadership Development, Fresenius

Medical Care North America, about the company

-CLGO “Scavenger Hunt” held in Shanghai.

Q1: How did the event go? Did it meet your

expectations?

JF: The event went very well. Our Global Executive Challenge Teams had great inter-action and teamwork with the CLGO stu-dents.

Q2. What did you and your team think of the

CLGO students with regards to energy,

professionalism and ability to work with the FMC

leaders as team?

JF: We were very impressed by the energy, enthusiasm, and creativity with which they approached the team challenges that were

given to them. Our people were energized by the contact with the CLGO students.

Q3. What's your impression now of the CLGO

program?

JF: We were very impressed with the quality of the students with whom we inter-acted. We would like to find out how to attract these students to our company.

Q4. What's the potential for a CLGO student

to get hired into FMC and to have a successful

operational leadership career?

JF: Our impression is that these students would be great candidates for success in operational leadership positions. More than a few of our execs wanted to know how we can make Fresenius an attractive option for

these students to consider.

One team searches for a Huqin.

CLGO Spotlight

Fresenius’ Shanghai Scavenger Hunt

Reflections: from Partners and Friends - Fresenius

April 2013

MACRO-SCOPE

The Fire Phase

March

1 - Internships start 18 - ProSem: Charles Ng, IBM

Application of statistics in retail pricing

22 - ProSem: MBA Career Planning 23 - Final Admission Interviews

TBD - Dragon Team Proposals April

9 - ProSem: Yv Feng, President, Ingersoll Rand Innovation in Operations

18 - CI Forum: Admissions Review 25 - CI Forum: Admissions Review

May

10 - ProSem: S. Djafarian, GM AP Evonik

Persuasive Communication 16 - CI Forum: HR Focus 26 - Graduation Ceremony 27 - GB Meeting 28, 29 - Internship Midstream Review TBD Lion Team Review 29 - 6/2 - IEDP - LGO 5 day Supply Chain Course

June

20 - CI Forum: Partner Sharing Preparations 29 - CLGO visit to US & MIT

July

20 - 1st interviews for 2015 29 - Start Summer Holliday

August

30 - Internships end September

8 - New class arrives TBD - Partner Recruiting Week 14 - 2nd 2015 interviews

October

14-15 - MIT Review Committee 16 - GB Meeting 26,27 - 3rd 2015 interviews

November

30 - Lion Team Proposals Due December

1 - 4th interviews for 2015 January

TBD - Student Thesis Defense TBD - Winter Holliday

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Calendar

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"As a partner com-pany representative during the CLGO pro-gram interview, I'm impressed by the "group discussion" sec-tion on a particular business case from which we could have a deeper understanding on candidates' learning capability, logical thinking, flexibility, communication skill and leadership. Those are the key things we consider when we de-velop a future leader and this activity really helps us." - Partner Interviewer

Five Question Quick Survey:

CI Forum

Performing CLGO Interviews

On Sunday, 24th of March,

the final CLGO interview session for Class of 2013 was held.

We had 36 candidates in this round, including 7 new candidates and 29 that had already been interviewed during the pre-GRK rounds.

Candidates were divided into two groups by drawing slots on arrival, and were given a 25 minutes of indi-

vidual interview and a one-hour group interview.

The group interview in-volves 8-9 students work-ing on a provided case and reporting out to an inter-view panel. There were two group interview panels; each consisted of 2 Antai Professors, 1 Engineering School Professor and 1 partner company represen-tative.

Admissions interviews are a critical step in getting high quality CLGO students. Involving partner compa-nies and alumni in this process has been a tradi-tion since the first CLGO class.

Admissions data for the Class of 2013 will be re-viewed at the CIF forums on Aril 18th and 25th.

- Nicky Fu

This month’s partner 5 question quick survey is about the CI Forum topics. The CI forum was set up so that we could regularly hear from all levels of partner representatives about how the CLGO pro-gram can improve, evolve and excel. The quick survey is five easy questions on-line that

you can complete in less than 5 minutes. The sur-vey feedback will be used to help us improve and sur-vey topics, generally will be decided at the end of each CI forum. 1a. How frequently do you think you could personally attend a CI Forum? 1b. Would you attend more frequently if there

was a video/teleconference option? 1c. What's your company role and level? 2. Which of the following would like to see as a CLGO Partner Relations CI Forum topic? 3. What CI Forum topic do you suggest?

Take the survey: http://www.sojump.com/jq/2259992.aspx

Pictures of the Week

Faculty Focus: Dean Zhou Lin

P A G E 3 A P R I L 2 0 1 3

Dean Zhou has been a strong sup-

porter of the CLGO program. He has sat on Governing Board meetings and Steering Committee meetings, com-municating directly with corporate partners and MIT program directors.

He has promoted the program nationally and internationally. Dean Zhou helps maintain the bridge between ACEM and SJTU’s School of Engineering, a key partnership for CLGO. Prof. Zhou Lin assumed the Deanship of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University since

April 2010. Prof. Zhou received a Bachelor’s degree from Fudan University in 1982, and Ph.D. degree in Economics from Princeton Univer-sity, USA in 1989. He had teaching experience at Yale University, Duke University, Arizona State University, City University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua University.

In 2006, Prof. Zhou was granted the Chang Jiang Scholar by Ministry of Education of China. He was elected Fellow of World Econometric Society in 2009, and is the first scholar in China mainland having been granted this award.

In March, CLGO launched its first Part-

ner Relations CI (Continuous Improve-ment) Forum. Participants from Cisco, Dell, and Esquel shared their thoughts with the CLGO program office on com-munication, and in particular the for-mat and content of this newsletter. The next CI meeting is on Admissions, will be held on two dates, April 18th and April 25th

March CI Forum Topic: Partner Communications Issue 1: Improving CLGO-Partner Com-munications – strategic, broader view communications needed. Issue 2: CLGO Newsletter – Many re-quests and ideas for implementation. Issue 3: The CI Forum - monthly, open to any partner personnel.

Participants were: Kathy Zhang, Cisco HR Wenhao Xiao, Cisco Test Development Ada Li, Dell GSQM Kitty Yao, Esquel HR Jud Graham, CLGO PO Lisa Wang, CLGO PO Thanks to the participants for a constructive and value added meeting.

Lion Team Projects have always been

an opportunity for CLGO and LGO stu-dents to learn from each other, partici-pants learn about cross-culture com-

munication, cooperation and many

other things. There was no exception this year, as projects came as planned in March. Three students from LGO and four students from CLGO came to-gether to support a Nike Lion Team Project.

The seven students and two experi-enced coaches from Nike worked with each other in Nike CLC (China Logistics Center) for five days, which was a pre-cious memory for all. Nike’s CLC is one of the most advanced distribution cen-

ters in China and the world, with high automation. Students learned about the concept of lean production, practic-ing time observations and trying to find opportunities of improvement during that short five days.

For LGO students this five days was of special meaning, a great opportunity for them to transform the theoretical lean concept into practical practice, also a good chance to learn more about Chinese culture and food; spicy food is their favorite now. They were im-pressed by CLGO students’ hard-work ethic and intelligence. One LGO stu-dent commented “I think CLGOs are just as sharp, if not sharper than LGO students”. It’s a great compliment for

CLGO.

For CLGO students, this short coopera-tion experience exposed them to the mien of MIT students, the rigorous logic of students from the world’s top university.

Finally, this was also a good chance for students to learn about a global leader in business- Nike. Coaches Max and Steve gave exceptional support and assistance, and the Nike staff’s coop-eration impressed us all. Cooperation between LGO & CLGO students con-tinue and we all look forward to the next encounter.

- BIAN Dongpo (CLGO2012)

Dean Zhou Lin

Antai College of Economics

& Management

Student View: Lion Teamwork at NIKE

Program Office Update: CI Forum

“CLGO is a unique program that thrives in large part due to the strong support from Antai's industry partners. I trust your support of CLGO will prove to be a worthy investment for the future.” - Dean Zhou Lin

“We really want to hear (read) the CLGO students feedback of our events” - Wenhao Xiao, Cisco Test Development Manager

Improving communication is always a challenge. When I first consid-ered using a newsletter format for Partner communications I was cautioned about the amount of work this endeavor might entail. Having launched a few internal com-pany newsletters for various purposes over the years, I probably discounted this, at first, perhaps overestimating my influence and ability. During the first CLGO Partner Relations Continuous Improvement (CI) Forum, I started to under-stand that there was a significant difference this time. In the past, I had created newsletters strictly to meet my own communication challenge, so didn’t really need to consider all the target reader’s needs and wants. At our March meeting, two things became quite clear: first, there was a real need for Partners to get more informa-tion on the broader view of CLGO

events, student activities and performance, and easy access to support materials. Second, I was suddenly faced with a wide range of customer needs that I wasn’t

quite ready to satisfy. Well, some sound advice from the Forum attendees, is resounding in my head “start conservatively and

grow from there”. I hope this edition at least meets a necessary standard for accep-tance so we have the chance to improve and meet all the needs, wants and desires heard and yet-to-be heard from our CLGO Partners. Finally a few words about the name of the newsletter: Macroscope. In addition to meaning, a wider, broader view, it also is the title of a not-well known Sci-fi novel. This book has stuck in my memory over the years, because of a particularly interesting game in it called “Sprouts”. The rules are simple, but winning consistently requires the ability to consider multiple situations and sequences far ahead of your opponent. You can find the rules at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts(game)#Rules

- Jud Graham

Introducing:

The CLGO Newsletter

Committee

吴畏迟 a.k.a WU Weichi a.k.a Weichi:

Content Inspired Expert

李 培 a.k.a LI Pei a.k.a Pei:

Originality and Executive Generalist

张 韬 a.k.a. ZHANG Tao a.k.a. Acito:

Technical Guru

管 宁 a.k.a GUAN Ning a.k.a Nina:

Layout, Design and Overall Creative Genius

The CLGO program was established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Antai College of Economics and Management

in 2006, with the cooperation and support of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was the first dual-degree gradu-

ate level academic program in China focusing on developing leaders with both engineering and management acumen.

Corporate Partnership with this program brings the benefits of early, frequent and targeted interaction with technically

oriented MBAs, including 6 month on-site internships, student consulting projects, and exclusive partner interview

schedules. Check us out at clgo.sjtu.edu.cn/enindex.

Jessie Chen, Program Director 021-52306023 chenxr@sjtu.edu.cn

Jud Graham, Program Industry Co-Director 021-52580959 jud7g@mit.edu

Lisa Wang, Marketing Manager 021-52301278 wangy@sjtu.edu.cn

Nicky Fu, Admission Manager 021-52301278 ningfu@sjtu.edu.cn

Emily Chen, Assistant to Program Director 021-62933233 emilychen@sjtu.edu.cn

Random Walk

From the CLGO Industry Co-Director

A simple two point game of

Sprouts. Try starting with six!

CLGO Contact Info