Transforming Family Businesses: Choosing Your Path

Module One Core Faculty: Beijing, China

Li Jin
Associate Dean, Guanghua School of Management Director of National Center for Financial Research and of the
Management Case Research Center, Peking University

Li Jin is a chair professor and doctoral advisor at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, co-director of Department of Finance, and one of the experts chosen by The Recruitment Program of Global Experts, a national strategic program of Chinese government. Mr. Jin Li was a finance professor at Harvard University and an executive director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He now holds a concurrent post as finance professor at Said Business School, University of Oxford (tenured full professor & doctoral advisor) and researcher at Oxford China Center. He is the founding co-director of the project of Harvard-Oxford-Peking Universities Future Leaders of Private and Family Business. He is an internationally renowned expert on corporate governance, a member of the Council and the Academic Committee of the Global Corporate Governance Committee (GCGC), and representative of the Chinese Area. He serves as independent director and external director at a number of domestic and foreign listed corporations, fund management companies and large state-owned enterprises; he also holds positions as senior advisor or director at many domestic and foreign academic and practical institutions.

Jin Li teaches capital market, corporate finance and corporate governance for MBA, EMBA, undergraduate and postgraduate students at Harvard Business School, Oxford University and Peking University. His research areas include international investment and financing, venture capital investment and private equity, hedge funds, wealth management, governance and inheritance of family enterprises, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital operation and so on. He has been invited to attend a variety of high-level international conferences as chairman of conference agenda, member of organizing committee or guests. His research results have been published in top international academic journals and won many internationally famous awards. Professor Jin Li has presided over nearly twenty case studies at Harvard University, Oxford University and Peking University which took Chinese enterprises as research object and which have been widely used in international business schools.

His research on China's economic and financial problems received attentions from international mainstream media, and his editorials about China's economic and financial problems have been published in Wall Street Journal and Financial Times; he has been interviewed by national-level media from Britain and the US for a number of times.

Jin Li has been engaged in teaching for more than 20 years, with students all over the world. At Harvard University and Oxford University, he has taught thousands of students at home and abroad who are serving in various international organizations, governments, financial institutions and other major companies. He served as the co-chairman of the "Project of Harvard-Tsinghua Private Equity and Venture Capital" on behalf of the US side, and the co-chairman of the "Harvard-Peking Financial Strategy for Enterprise Globalization on behalf of Chinese side. He also taught finance courses for thousands of Chinese senior entrepreneurs in other top Chinese universities including Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China Europe International Business School, and other domestic business schools.

Se Yan
A Senior Chinese Economist, Research Professor at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Dr. Yan Se joined SCB in July 2015 as a senior Chinese economist stationed in Beijing. Over the past seven years, Dr. Yan has successfully combined academic research with practical policy analysis and offered a wide variety of economic consultation and analysis services for top government officials. Before joining SCB, he was an associate professor and associate chair of Department of Applied Economics at Guanghua, and also deputy director of IEPR-PKU.

Dr. Yan’s research specialties are macroeconomics, Chinese economy, and economic history. His research has been widely recognized by international academia, with many academic papers published in top journals both at home and abroad. In 2009, his dissertation was awarded the “Best Dissertation Prize” at the 15th World Economic History Congress, and therefore, he became the first Chinese scholar to enjoy this honor. His research subjects have received grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Chinese National Social Science Foundation, and Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of China’s Ministry of Education. In addition, he has presided over a revision project titled History of the Qing Dynasty · Foreign Trade Records. Dr. Yan is also an associate editor of the Australian Economic History Review. At Guanghua, he teaches Chinese Economy, Macroeconomics and some other courses, and has won the Teaching Excellence Award of Peking University. He received his BA in International Economics and MA in Economic History from Peking University, and completed his PhD in Economics at UCLA.

Module Two Core Faculty: Oxford, U.K.

Eric Thun
Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Business Studies, Saїd Business School, University of Oxford

Eric Thun is the Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Business Studies at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. A political scientist by training, Eric’s research focuses on issues of global strategy in emerging markets and industrial development in China. He teaches on a wide range of executive programmes at the Saїd Business School, as well as the MBA and EMBA programmmes.

In his current research, he analyses how a profound shift in the geography of consumption creates both challenges and opportunities for firms. Emerging markets provide growth opportunities for global firms, but the price constraints of consumers and institutional differences within these markets demand new forms of innovation, design, purchasing, and organization. The future success of firms, and the economies in which they are based, depends on their ability to meet these new challenges.

Eric’s work has been published in World Development, Politics & Society, the Journal of East Asian Studies, World Business, and the Journal of International Business Studies. His book, Changing Lanes in China: Foreign Direct Investment, Local Governments and Auto Sector Development was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006.

Eric received his BA from Princeton University in 1990 and his doctorate from Harvard University in 1999. After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Industrial Performance Center, he returned to Princeton as Assistant Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Politics. He joined the Saїd Business School in 2005.

Colin Mayer CBE
Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School. Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and St Anne’s College, Oxford. Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

Colin is an expert on all aspects of corporate finance, governance and taxation, the regulation of financial institutions and the role of the corporation in contemporary society. He is currently leading the Oxford Ownership Project that examines family ownership and corporate purpose, and how they relate to the endurance, value, and conduct of corporations. Colin studied as an undergraduate at Oriel College, Oxford, and received his DPhil from Oxford University in 1981. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, and has had visiting positions at Columbia, MIT and Stanford universities. In 1994, Colin became the first professor at Saïd Business School, and was appointed the Peter Moores Dean of the Business School between 2006 and 2011.

Module Three Faculty: Cambridge, MA
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