The First ‘Asia-Pacific Business School Deans Summit’
The world’s first meeting of business school deans of the Asia-Pacific region …

Coverage by all major domestic media outlets and the acceptance of a declaration and other fruitful results

The Asia-Pacific Business School Deans Summit, an event to prepare for the era of Asian business administration as a result of the shift in the world economy, was hosted by KUBS from September 25th (Wed.) to 27th (Fri.).

Photo: Starting from the 4th from the left on the front row – Director of SASIN Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University ,Toemsakdi Krishnamra (Thailand); Dean of Euromed Management - Kedge Business School, Bernard Belletante (France); Dean of KUBS, Doo-Hee Lee; Dean of Peking University – HSBC, Vincent Chang (China); Dean of Singapore Management University – Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Howard Thomas; and more than 60 other participants in front of the LG-POSCO Building for a commemorative photo.

The Summit was filled with anticipation concerning the era of Asian business administration as KUBS started planning for the event in January, preparing invitations and topic suggestions with the world’s prestigious business school deans in mind; over 70 business school deans and associate deans representing 64 business schools from 22 different nations (including Peking University, National University of Singapore, University of Washington, etc.) participated in the Deans Summit.

With a full-page article of the event by the Dong-A Ilbo, as well as coverage by The Korean Economic Daily, Yonhap News Agency, Channel A, and more than 20 other media outlets, public anticipation for the event was high. *(Refer to the related articles below)

The 3-day long summit produced significant results, such as the agreement of the publication of the Journal of Asia Pacific Business Cases and the acceptance of the Seoul Declaration for Asia-Pacific Business Education. Dean Edwin Cheng of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University said, “It was a meaningful event in that, not only was it a space for planning the era of Asian business education, it was an event where deans from all over the world could come together to share ideas about the issues that have been building over the years regarding business administration.”

Vance Roley, Dean of Shidler College of Business (University of Hawaii at Manua), also expressed the importance of the Summit by saying, “the creation of a journal representing the emerging Asia-Pacific region is a significant outcome of this meeting.”

With the conclusion of the agreements, KUBS is determined to continuously play a leading role in the field of Asian business education.

Dean Doo-Hee Lee, who directed the whole event, said, “We hosted this event with the belief that, only if we ourselves research and develop the cases in the Asian region, is it possible to usher in the true era of ‘Asian business education’” and “KUBS will play a leading role in continuing and developing the consensus and insight of the global business school deans that was achieved through this summit.”

The deans who participated in the Summit also had the chance to visit the Hyundai Motor Asan Factory and learn the songs and cheers in the annual Ko-Yeon sports festival, showing interest in Korea and KUBS’s advanced business systems and cheering culture.

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