Speaker: Prof. Li Oufan
Venue: News Hall, Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center
Date: Apr. 16, 2012(Monday)
Time: 10:00-12:00
Prof. Li Oufan was born in 1939 and got doctor’s degree from Harvard after graduation from the Department of Foreign Languages of National Taiwan University. He used to teach East Asian Studies at Harvard and currently he is a chair professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was awarded honorary doctorate by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and elected member of the Academia Sinica. His research field mainly contains modern literature, research of culture and Sino movies.
>>China-Africa Development Cooperation: What is Next?
Speaker: Prof. Zhao Yongjun
Venue: Room 303, School of Economics
Date: Apr. 16, 2012(Monday)
Time: 10:00-11:30
Organizer: School of Economics
Dr. Zhao Yongjun is assistant professor of resource governance, sustainable society and globalization studies and program coordinator in the Faculty of Law of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research interests include the social and institutional dimensions of natural resource management concerning land tenure reform, rural governance, food security and rural development in China and Africa, and China’s engagement with Africa on agricultural and sustainable development issues. He is partly coordinating the International Land Tenure and Administration, a network of researchers pursing research collaboration in land-related multi-disciplinary thematic issues. He is also leading a research project focusing on farmland acquisition and governance in China issues. He contributes to the teaching of development studies related courses in different faculties and at other universities.
Speaker: Prof. Li Oufan
Venue: Room 107, Natural Science Classroom Building
Date: Apr. 18, 2012(Wednesday)
Time: 10:00-12:00
Organizer: Department of Chinese Language and Literature
Speaker: Prof. Li Oufan
Venue: Room 207, Classroom Building No. 2
Date: Apr. 19, 2012(Thursday)
Time: 15:00-17:00
Organizer: Department of Chinese Language and Literature
>>Hypercompetition and Beating the Commodity Trap
Speaker: Professor Richard D'Aveni
Venue: 216 New Guanghua Building
Date: Apr. 20, 2012(Friday)
Time: 10:00-11:30
Organizer: Guanghua School of Management
Professor D'Aveni has published five books, including the international best seller, Hypercompetition (available in 11 languages) and his ground breaking book on corporatespheres of influence, Strategic Supremacy. D’Aveni’s 2010 book, Beating the Commodity Trapis already being translated into Chinese, Italian and Japanese.
He has advised or worked with the president or prime minister of two G-7 countries, the European Parliament, the French Senat, members of the Saudi Royal family, and the Vice President of Indonesia, as well as consulted with over 30 CEOs in the Fortune and Global 500 and over ten billionaire families on the Forbes list of The Wealthiest 500 in the World.
He has been named one of the seven most influential strategic theorists in the world by the Corporate Executive Board and Germany's Business Week named him one of five American academics most likely to influence the future of management. He won the prestigious A. T. Kearney Award for his research and was appointed a World Economic Forum Fellow, often speaking at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.
D’Aveni has been listed as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world in 2007, 2009, and 2011 by the Thinker’s 50, CNN, Forbes, the Harvard Business Review, The Times of London, and the Times of India.
Written by: Feng Xiaomang
Edited by: Liu Lu
Source: PKU Lecture Hall
