Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
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| Type | Private Business School Non-profit |
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| Established | 2002 |
| Dean | Xiang Bing |
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Academic staff
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45-50 |
| Location | Beijing, China |
| Campus | Urban |
| Affiliations | Li Ka Shing Foundation |
| Website | ckgsb |
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Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), (Chinese: 长江商学院; pinyin: ChángJiāng shāngxuéyuàn) is a private, non-profit, independent educational institution and the only business school in China with faculty governance. The school offers MBA, Dual EMBA with IMD, Finance MBA, Executive MBA, Doctor of Business Administration, and Executive Education programs to both Chinese and international students. 45 full-time professors and 10 long-term visiting professors currently make up the faculty staff, with research focusing from global business issues to China-specific topics. In its 10 years the school has trained about 3000 CEOs from various Chinese companies, with notable alumni including the founder of the Alibaba Group, Jack Ma; Fu Chengyu, Chairman of Sinopec; and Wu Yajun, fifth richest person and richest women in China as of 2012.
Established in November 2002 through the financial support of the Li Ka Shing Foundation, today CKGSB is considered one of the major graduate business schools in China, with a leading role in the growing Chinese private sector. As of 2011 CKGSB alumni collectively managed above $1 trillion in revenues, equal to 13.7% of the Chinese GDP in that year. Headquartered in Beijing, CKGSB has campuses in Shanghai and Shenzhen, as well as offices in Hong Kong, New York City and London.
The "Cheung Kong" from CKGSB's name comes directly from the name of Li Ka Shing's Cheung Kong (Holdings). In Cantonese, "Cheung Kong" is the name for China's longest river, the Yangtze River.The logo recalls the seal used by ancient Chinese scholars, and is an evocation of the school's grounding in Chinese heritage. The three vertical lines in the logo represent the ancient Chinese writing style, while the three horizontal ones indicate Western style writing, overall symbolizing the integration of Eastern and Western values and knowledged in the school.The lower right corner represents the Mandarin initials of the Yangtze River, "Chang Jiang".
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