A diversity of events and lectures held at PHBS and awards earned by PHBSers


1. EMBA alumnus Pu Aimin completed this year's World Marathon Challenge, popularly known as the “777,” ranking 8th in overall score (28 hours, 24 mins, 26 secs), the best result for an Asian participant in the February event. Competitors ran 42.2 km for each region, starting in Novo (Antarctica), followed by Cape Town (Africa), Perth (Australia), Dubai (Asia), Madrid (Europe), Santiago (South America) and ending in Miami (North America), within 168 hours, or seven days. Fewer than 200 people have finished a 777-style marathon challenge since it was first completed in 2003.


2. PHBS Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship aims to further develop PHBS's research capabilities in innovation and entrepreneurship and to inspire and educate the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. Since its inception, more than 300 attendees have packed the lecture hall each time for a number of talks by prominent business leaders, entrepreneurs and scholars from around the world. Speakers have included Wang Shi, founder of Vanke, a major Chinese real estate developer (ranked 332nd in the 2018 Fortune Global 500), and Brett Gorvy, co-founder of Lévy Gorvy, a renowned art gallery with spaces in London, New York and Hong Kong, and a devotee to innovation and connoisseurship in the fields of modern, postwar and contemporary art. 3.The trio representing PHBS at the 2019 CFA Institute Research Challenge in Shenzhen came out the winners of its South China Local Final. Team members Nian Yasong, Yao Huanchen and Yu Chenfeng, all finance students, cited PHBS Assistant Professor Daniel Kim for his supervision leading up to the competition. The CFA Institute Research Challenge is an annual global competition focused on equity research that provides students hands-on experience with close mentoring and training in financial analysis. Teams of three to five are presented with actual cases for which they act as research analysts to value stocks, write a report, and present their recommendations to a panel of experts.


4. PHBS Executive MBA (EMBA) competitors won seven awards in the 14th Xuan Zang Road International Business School Gobi Challenge, receiving the Excellence Award, the Shackleton Award and five other prizes. The annual event, with participants covering 117 km on foot, is held over four days and draws thousands of competitors from 62 business schools. Meanwhile, the PHBS MBA team competed in the 8th Asia-Pacific Business School Desert Challenge and won the Sand Gull Award for the fourth consecutive year, the competition's highest group honor. The event takes place in the Tengger Desert across three days, with participants covering over 70 km. This year, nearly 3000 participants entered the competition from among 109 business schools. Executive Development Progam (EDP) students defended their title in the 5th Industrial and Commercial Avenue Gobi Desert Expedition, winning a total of 92 gold, 39 silver and 7 bronze medals.


5. In the first China DataViz Competition, themed "Macro and Micro World in Data," the work "Way Back into Shanghai” of three PHBS financial media students, Lan Xingyu, Liang Yinyan and Ye Xiaoqi, stood out from 622 submissions to win the Best Data News Award. The students' award-winning project shows the process of Shanghai's road network expansion, the history of Shanghai's development, and the spatial transfer of urban functional areas. To communicate information clearly and effectively, data visualization uses statistical graphics, plots, information graphics and other tools.