Over February and March the Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Center hosted two teams of foreign students on one-week visits.
Our old friends from the EMBA program at Singapore Management University were here from the last week in February through Saturday, 4 March. On their heels the very next day was an MBA contingent from WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in Dusseldorf. The overall objectives of both groups were similar: to develop insights on functional solutions for business challenges within the Thai context for comparison with experiences elsewhere. Each group consisted of a half-dozen nationalities with a wide range of occupations: there were a pair of retired businessmen and a handful of medical doctors among the students, for example.
Given the near-overlap of the visits, the SEC could not duplicate their itineraries without overburdening our own business colleagues. Each of the two cohorts joined on-site visits to such establishments as ThaiBev, Betagro, SCG, Samitivej, Central Group, and Urban Action (the Lad Phrao khlong clean-up project) all in different stages of the journey to fortifying sustainability mindsets within their concerns. In addition, here at Sasin guest speakers offered behind-the-scenes insights concerning the Thai (and ASEAN) economic landscape, the innovation and startup investment milieu, smart city methodology, and unique marketing opportunities.
We were fortunate to be able to count on Sasin faculty and experts to lecture and engage our visitors. As a bonus, Sasin students themselves added verisimilitude to the two visits by joining networking opportunities for energized exchanges of distinctive perspectives.