From December 4 to 5, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) mentor, Angelo Denisi, came on a two day visit to Peking University HSBC Business School.  Angelo Denisi is the former Dean of Tulane University Freeman School of Business and he is currently a professor at Tulane University.




On the morning of the 4th, PHBS’s Executive Vice Dean, Professor Vincent Chang, Executive Vice Dean, Professor Wei Wei, Professor Yan Feng , the chair of the Accreditation Committee, Professor Phillip Huang, the chair of the EMBA Academic Committee, Professor Xiaotian Wu, the director of the MBA-EMBA Program Office, and other leaders met with Professor Denisi and discussed PHBS’s programs in regards to the current status of accreditation and plans for moving forward. In the afternoon, Professor Denisi met with Assistant Dean, Professor Haifeng Huang and with students from different years of the EMBA and MBA programs, to learn more about the status of the research and teaching of these two programs.




On the morning of the 5th, Professor Denisi met with PHBS’s full-time master’s students and some full-time faculty members to further examine the improvements in PHBS’s full-time program’s teaching, research, etc. Vice-President of Peking University and Dean of HSBC Business School, Professor Wen Hai, also attached great importance to the visit during their evening meeting, discussing PHBS and the efforts toward AACSB accreditation at the Westin Hotel in Shenzhen. 
 




About AACSB
      The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) was founded in 1916 and is a not-for-profit association of educational institutions, corporations and other organizations devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and accounting.   Institutions with a Bachelor’s in Business Administration or Accounting, Master’s or Doctoral programs in Business are among those that AACSB accredits.  Currently, less than 6% of the world’s business schools have received AACSB accreditation. HSBC Business School became a member of AACSB in August 2009 and began the process towards accreditation soon after that.