2010 Winter Schedule of Columbia-China Young Development Program*
January 29th to February 18th, 2009
In the City of New York
The program consists of the lectures in finance, consulting, and media as well as the panels with the
managers and professionals. Also the program will provide several fieldtrips at the leading companies.
The participants can choose at most 16 lectures and 2 fieldtrips according to the background and career
interest. The participants will be divided into teams based on their class options. And the teams will do
two-round competitions. 部门课时会在同一时段。学生可以根据个人兴趣选择 16 个课时和 2 个课外
考察。
Classroom Location: Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
01/29 (Friday)
2:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Pick up at the JFK airport
3:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Check in hostel
01/30 (Saturday)
8:00 AM to 8:30 AM, Breakfast
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, Orientation
(1) Group Competition I
(2) Campus tour
Assistants: Fangming Rao, Sophie Guo, Xiaomeng Li, Marie Poulard, Chris Kuriakose
2:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Selective activity: Site Visit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Assistants: Marie Poulard, Jasmine Li
Considering the jet lag issue, the events for the first day will be mainly outdoor.
01/31 (Sunday)
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Columbia Business Professor Yuan Zhang
Topic: Financial Accounting I
Assistants: Sophie Guo, Fangming Rao
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Columbia Business Professor Yuan Zhang
Topic: Financial Accounting II
Assistants: Sophie Guo
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Columbia Journalism School Professor Seymour Topping, Managing Editor of The New York Times;
President, American Society of Newspaper Editors;
Topic: Reporting and Writing
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Mrs. Ava Seave, Principal, Quantum Media, Consultant to Media and Entertainment Companies
Topic: Management Strategies in Media
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Happy Hour with the Chinese students in the city of New York
02/01 (Monday)
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Business School Professor Hitendra Wadhwa
Topic: Strategic Consulting Skills I
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li, Jasmine Li
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Business School Professor Hitendra Wadhwa
Topic: Strategic Consulting Skills II
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li, Jasmine Li
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Columbia Business School Professor Michael Grad, Previous MD at UBS and Citigroup
Topic: M&A I
Assistant: Fangming Rao, Sophie Guo
8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Selective activity: Broadway Show ($30 or more)
02/02 (Tuesday)
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Dr. Michael Bazigos, Strategy and Change Executive, IBM Corporation
Topic: Global Strategy of IBM Consulting
Assistants: Sophie Guo, Fangming Rao
1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Information Session: Master of Financial Engineering, Columbia University
Assistants: Sophie Guo, Fangming Rao
2:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Ms. Jenny Mak
Director, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, Columbia University
Topic: Skills of Applying School and Job I
Assistants: Jasmine Li
5:15 PM to 7:30 PM
Ms. Jenny Mak
Director, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department, Columbia University
Topic: Skills of Applying School and Job II
Assistants: Jasmine Li
02/03 (Wednesday)
Depart at 7:00 AM
Selective activity: Site Visit at Statue of Liberty
Assistants: Jasmine, Sophie Guo, Marie Poulard, Chris Kuriakose
1:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Fieldtrip at the United Nations
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li, Marie Poulard, Chris Kuriakose
7:30 PM to 11:00 PM
Selective activity:
NBA Game ($20 or more)
New York vs. Washington
02/04 (Thursday)
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Choose one of the following fieldtrips:
 Federal Reserve Bank of New York
and Museum of Finance
 New York Stock Exchange
 NBC studio
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li, Sophie Guo, Jasmine Li, Fangming Rao, Marie Poulard, Chris Kuriakose
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Fieldtrip at Bloomberg
731 Lexington Ave. and 58th Street,
New York, NY
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li, Sophie Guo, Jasmine Li, Fangming Rao, Marie Poulard, Chris Kuriakose
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Ms. Shannon Polly,
Corporate Trainer at J.P.Morgan, and Deloitte
Topic: Interpersonal and Networking Skills
Assistants: Jasmine Li
02/05 (Friday)
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Edward Lamar Turner III,
Senior Partner and Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling
Topic: M&A II
Assistant: Fangming Rao
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Mr. Doug Bradley, Managing Director
Head of Advisory, Americas
Global Banking and Markets, HSBC Securities Inc.
Topic: M&A III
Assistants: Sophie Guo
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM, Warren 311
Information Session of MBA Program
The Warren Hall is located on the corner of the 116th street and Amsterdam Ave.
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Columbia Business School Professor Sandy Becker
Topic: Market Segmentation and Targeting
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Columbia Business School Professor Sandy Becker
Topic: Managing Brands
Assistants: Jasmine Li
4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
Columbia Business School Professor Sandy Becker
Topic: International Marketing
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Business School Professor Evan Picoult, Managing Director, Risk Architecture, Citigroup
Topic: Risk Management I
Assistants: Fangming Rao, Sophie Guo
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Business School Professor Evan Picoult, Managing Director, Risk Architecture, Citigroup
Topic: Risk Management II
Assistants: Sophie Guo
4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Panel with the professionals at the leading organizations
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Columbia Journalism School Professor Joseph Plummer
Topic: Marketing the Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Dorian Benkoil
Founder, SVP and senior consultant at Teeming Media, a New York based strategic digital media business
and editorial consultancy
Topic: Emerging Media
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li
02/07 (Sunday)
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Business School Professor Joel Stern, Co-founder of Economic Value Added (EVA), Chairman, Stern
Stewart & Co.
Topic: The Economics of Corporate Governance and the Strategic Implications for Managing Firms
Assistants: Fangming Rao, Sophie Guo
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Business School Professor Scott Gallin
Topic: Private Equity I
Assistants: Fangming Rao
4:00 PM to 6:30 PM
Business School Professor Scott Gallin
Topic: Private Equity II
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Professor Donald Brown
International media management program, the School of International and Public Administration
Topic: Magazine
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Lecture by Professor Gary Shimokawa,
Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and TV, New York University, directed and produced shows for over 35
years totaling over 600 episodes.
Topic: TV Production
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li
02/08 (Monday)
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Columbia Business School Professor
Seth Freeman
Topic: Negotiation Skills I
Assistants: Fangming Rao, Sophie Guo
1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Columbia Business School Professor
Seth Freeman
Topic: Negotiation Skills II
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
02/09 (Tuesday)
Fieldtrip at IBM Global Business Service, Somer Headquarter Office, New York
Assistants: Fangming Rao, Sophie Guo
2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Mr. Doug Sundheim, President of Clarity Consulting
Topic: Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Assistants: Xiaomeng Li
02/10 (Wednesday)
Team study
1:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Group Competition II:
Group Project Presentations
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li
6:30 PM to 7:30 PM, Closing Ceremony
Assistants: Jasmine Li, Xiaomeng Li, Sophie Guo, Fangming Rao, Marie Poulard,
Chris Kuriakose
第一阶段课程结束。第二阶段学员可以选择继续访问美国高校，适合准备申请北美高校的同学。
人均每天食宿和交通费用约 90 美金。此外，从波斯顿至芝加哥至旧金山机票价格约为 300 美金。
02/11 (Thursday)
Visit at Princeton University with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese Alumni
02/12 (Friday)
Visit University of Pennsylvania with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese students at University of Pennsylvania
02/13 (Saturday)
Visit at Yale University with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese students at Yale
Celebrate the Chinese Spring Festival with the Chinese students in Boston
02/14 (Sunday)
Visit Harvard University with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese students at Harvard University
Visit MIT
Meeting with Chinese students at MIT
02/15 (Monday)
Fly to Chicago
Visit University of Chicago with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese students at University of Chicago
02/16 (Tuesday)
Fly to San Francisco
Visit University of California, Berkeley with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese students at University of California, Berkeley
02/17 (Tuesday)
Visit Stanford University with bus transportation
Meeting with Chinese students at Stanford University
02/18 (Wednesday)
Back to China or New York
学员可以从旧金山或者洛杉矶乘机回国
* Policy on schedule change: this schedule, including the fieldwork, is tentative. Every effort will be made
to adhere to the schedule; but, should changes become necessary, students will be notified in advance.