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The Lucent/China M.I.I. Executive Management Training Program, February 2001
In February 2001, Lucent Technologies sponsored a program to bring 15 Chinese telecommunications managers to the University of Pennsylvania to receive management training and learn the U.S. style of successful business operations. The managers, identified as future leaders, came from a variety of provincial telecom companies.

Program Content
The program consisted of one week of training at Lucent's headquarters in New Jersey to bring the participants up to date with the latest developments in telecommunications.

The following three weeks consisted of daily morning lectures by Penn faculty members and members of the Philadelphia business community. Afternoons consisted of guest lectures and company site visits.

Lectures Included

  • WTO and China
  • Strategic Thinking
  • How to Read an Organization
  • Power and Influence
  • Implementing Change
  • Team Management
  • Good Stories, Good Leaders
  • Organizational Culture and Learning
  • Innovation and Invention
  • Marketing Strategy
  • SE Asian Economics and China
  • Self Design
  • Personnel Development
  • Innovation and Invention

Site Visits Included

  • Comcast Corporation
  • Morgan Stanley
  • SAP America
  • Dilworth Paxson LLP
  • F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commission)
  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
  • NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Admin)

Extracurricular
In addition to all the time spent in class and visiting companies, the participants also had time to attend a performance of the Philadelphia Orchestra, travel to Washington D.C. to visit the White House, Capitol Building, and museums of the Smithsonian Institute; visit New York City; and visit with an American Family.

Planning for Your Company's Future
If you want your company to be ready to meet all the demands that it will face in the new millennium, including goal setting, management, personnel development, international marketing, going public, and quick response and flexibility, then your management teams must have the proper training and international exposure that the GSE Executive Development Program is ready to offer to you.

For more information, please contact GSE's International Programs Office.