CHEMBA2021开学典礼—21班新生代表肖希允演讲

Dear Professors, Teachers, Alumni and Classmates,

Good afternoon. My name is Xiao Xiyun. It’s my great honor to give a welcome speech as a new student representative.

I’m working in a multi-national FMCG company as head of group financial reporting & analysis. One of my key responsibilities is to provide monthly financial report to our executive team and the board of directors, delivering insight and analysis in our business. With the diversification and internationalization of our company’s business, I face challenges and difficulties to provide insightful observations or suggestions to our top management team because of my lack of professional thinking and systematic business knowledge. I then realized that it’s necessary to obtain further scientific business management knowledge through a professional and systemic program.

I know about CHEMBA through alumni, who are also my friend or previous colleagues. I was attracted by the comprehensive and systemic curriculum of CHEMBA. Besides, CHEMBA is an English-taught EMBA program in South China that is jointly run by a Chinese and an American university. Considering I’m working in multi-national company, there is no doubt that CHEMBA became my first choice.

I am specialized in financial management. So every time I make investment, I’ll evaluate the ROI (return of investment). I did the same when I decided to join this program. Here I would like to share my view of ROI from joining CHEMBA program.

First, we can gain a broad international perspective through this program. Professors assigned to CHEMBA are experts from all walks of life, who not only have certain academic attainments, but also have practical experience in business management. Their broad knowledge and vision will help diversify our perspectives and methods of thinking. In addition, overseas activities are organized regularly. Frequent communication with students in different countries can provide us a broad international perspective. The enterprise research activities also provide a good platform for us to learn and use through communication with enterprises.

Secondly, this program enables us to establish a good business network. Students gathering here are all kinds of talents, including entrepreneurs, senior managers in enterprises and social elites. They are specialized in various area like finance, research and development, marketing, sales, supply chain, manufacturing and etc. Each student has a unique perspective and understanding of management. Communicating with fellow students is a rare time worth cherishing. This helps us to better spark in studies and discussions, stimulate ideas from each other, and help us have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the knowledge we learn.

Thirdly, this program help us to build a solid foundation for the future career development. Students are all managers from different industries and enterprises. CHEMBA has built a platform for us to communicate and learn from each other. With this study experience of CHEMBA, I firmly believe that our future career and life will have a higher and better development.

I also learned from alumni that, the study of this program is indeed very demanding. We’ll have heavy readings, class assignments and homework. In the meanwhile, we need to balance our work and family life. Adults always need to make choices in life. Every student sitting here have decided to join this program, then please bear in mind the irreplaceable value of CHEMBA and enjoy the coming 20 months study.

Last but not least, wish all of us completing the program successfully! Let’s keep learning and growing, alongside with CHEMBA. Thank you!

尊敬的领导、老师、同学们:

下午好。我叫肖希允。作为一名新生代表，我非常荣幸地在此发表欢迎致辞。

我在一家跨国快消公司担任集团财务报告和分析主管，我的主要职责之一是向我们的执行团队和董事会提供月度财务报告，以便对我们的业务进行洞察和分析。随着公司业务的多元化和国际化，由于缺乏专业的思维和系统的业务知识，我面临着向我们的高层管理团队提供有见地的观察和建议的挑战，因此，我意识到有必要通过专业、系统的课程获得进一步的科学的企业管理知识。

我是通过CHEMBA的校友们了解到CHEMBA这个项目的，这其中既有我的朋友，也有我曾经的同事。CHEMBA项目全面且系统的课程体系吸引了我，此外，CHEMBA是一个由中山大学和明尼苏达大学联合开办的在华南地区全英授课的EMBA项目。考虑到我在跨国公司工作，因此毫无疑问，CHEMBA成为了我的首选。

因为我专攻财务管理，所以每次投资，我都会评估ROI(投资回报)。当我决定加入CHEMBA项目时，我也对这一做法的ROI进行了评估。在这里，我想向大家分享一下我关于加入CHEMBA项目的投资回报率的看法。

首先，CHEMBA项目能让我们获得广阔的国际视野。CHEMBA项目的教授都是来自世界知名大学的各行各业的专家，不仅有一定的学术造诣，在企业管理方面也有实践经验。他们丰富的知识和广博的视野将有助于拓宽我们的眼界以及思维方法。此外，CHEMBA项目会经常性地组织海外活动，活动中，与海外学生的频繁交流也可以为我们提供广阔的国际视野。同时，企业调研活动也为我们通过与企业交流进行学习提供了一个很好的平台。

其次，CHEMBA项目能帮助我们建立良好的商业网络。聚集在这里的学生们都是社会精英，包括了企业家、高级管理人员等，他们的专业领域涵盖了财务、研发、营销、销售、供应链、制造等各个职能，每个学生对管理都有自己独特的视角和理解。与同学们的交流是一笔难得的，值得珍惜的经验，有助于我们在学习和讨论中更好地激发彼此的想法，并帮助我们对所学知识有更全面和深入的理解。

其三，CHEMBA项目能为我们未来的职业生涯打下坚实的基础。CHEMBA的学员都是来自不同行业和企业的管理者，CHEMBA为我们搭建了一个交流学习的平台。有了这次CHEMBA的学习经历，我坚信我们未来的事业和生活会有更高更好的发展。

同时，我也从CHEMBA的校友们口中了解到，CHEMBA项目的学习要求很高。我们将要进行大量的阅读、完成大量课堂作业和家庭作业，同时，我们还必须平衡工作和家庭生活。但成年人在生活中总会面临数不清的选择，既然如今坐在这里的每一个学生都已经决定加入CHEMBA项目，那么请记住，CHEMBA项目具有不可替代的价值。让我们一起享受未来20个月的学习。

最后，祝愿我们所有人都能成功完成CHEMBA项目的学习！让我们与CHEMBA项目一起不断学习，继续成长。谢谢大家！