MIT LGO Faculty and Students Visited CLGO

MIT LGO delegation led by Prof. Roy Welsch with 55 LGO students visited CLGO in March. With the rising of Asia manufacturing and operation industry, learning the operations of multinational enterprises in Asia especially in China, becomes an important learning part for LGO program. Every two years, MIT LGO students will visit China to learn the development in operations industry. As a partner program, CLGO helps to arrange this visit including lion team projects, company visits and  forum organization. 

Lion team projects implemented by CLGO students and LGO students, help to solve the problems in actual operation for enterprises, especially those parnters companies. By participating in lion team projects, CLGO and LGO students applied knowledge in class into practice, which created value for cooperative enterprises, deepened the understanding of CLGO and LGO students and laid a good foundation for the students to work in large international enterprises in the future. This year, lion team projects include three projects: SanDisk, ABB and UTC. As these corporate sectors located in Shanghai, LGO students came to China recently and worked with CLGO students to investigate and analyze the data.                  

Welcome dinner was held on March 24th. Prof. Dong Ming, vice dean of Antai College of Economics and Management attended the dinner and delivered a welcome speech.

On March 26th, LGO delegation visited Nike logistic center in Taicang, Cisco R&D center in Shanghai and Jabil factory. Through the company visits, MIT LGO students had a deeper understanding of the multinationals’ operations in China.

To help LGO students to learn the operations development in China, CLGO held a forum in the afternoon of March 27. Dr.Robert Keitel, CLGO industry Co-Director hosted the forum. The speakers included Mr. Choon Wea Loo, COO of Nike Great China; Mr. Keith Miears, Dell Worldwide Procurement director; Ms. Teresa Yang, VP of Esquel Group; Mr. Clint Rockwell, LGO alumni & Intel equipment control director of Intel. Prof. Roy Welsch from MIT Sloan Business School and Prof.Chen Xiaorong, CLGO program director attended the forum.

CLGO is focusing on developing a special type of leader for China and the world–one who can apply both managerial and engineering expertise to global operations with a deep understanding of Chinese economic environment. It is expected that more students who are interest in global operation join this kind of activities and make the CLGO program get more support and recognition, and all parties benefit from it.