The three students are Chinese executives who have all completed research for over three years, to fulfil this academic qualification aimed at training executives of high calibre.
 
Vice-president of a Chinese TV series production company, Shanghai Jiren TV Program Ltd., Wang Hui (44 years old), has undertaken research examining the ‘quality’ and ‘cost’ of the industrialised production of TV series.
 
Wang Rong-Xin (50 years old) is the General Manager of Artificial Peninsular Construction Development Ltd., contracted to work on the construction of the deep water port of Shanghai. His area of research is on city construction and housing development management.
 
Tang Qin (39 years old) is the director of the textile company Shanghai Hengyu Garment Co. Ltd. His research focused around the development of textile companies within the new WTO context.
 
The DBA is a part-time degree conducted entirely in English aimed at executives with 5 to 10 years experience. Its duration ranges between 3 to 5 years and allows executives to theorise the management skills they have put in practice throughout their career.
 
The DBA of Grenoble Ecole de Management, which is orientated towards technology and innovation, is dispensed in China since 2002, in partnership with the prestigious Tongji University School of Economics and Management of Shanghai.
 
Grenoble Ecole de Management trains overall nearly 150 DBA students, including 48 in China, who meet four times a year with French professors for intensive research seminars.
 
The Grenoble school has been delivering doctorate training for over 14 years and delivers its DBA in Grenoble, USA, and England (joint-DBA with Newcastle). Two new international DBAs are also in the works. 
 
About the DBA
 
Created by Harvard Business School, the DBA is a training programme which offers a doctoral qualification similar of that of a PhD. Two fundamental characteristics distinguish the DBA from the PhD: their student population and methodology.

A PhD is frequently aimed at students with no prior professional experience and who usually project to work in academia. The DBA attracts experienced executives who want to theorise the management practices they already put into practice in their career.

Further to a more and more complex environment where managerial practices are in constant development, high-calibre executives are increasingly seeking to be trained and receive further academic recognition to add value to their professional experience. After graduation, these executives remain within a business or consultant career.

About Grenoble Ecole de Management in China
 
Grenoble Ecole de Management was one of the first European institutions to export its programmes and activities in China. Since 1998, by signing partnerships with prestigious Chinese institutions, the Grenoble school has shaped strong alliances around its expertise in Management Technology and Innovation. Examples of the school’s activities in China are:
 

• A Franco-Shanghai MBA (alongside four French regional institutions) since 1998 
• Student exchange programmes with top Chinese universities: Fudan University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Tongji University
• DBA with Tongji University – Shanghai
• Two Chinese-based recruitment offices in Shanghai and Peking 
• Continuing education on World Trade Organisation (WTO) for Chinese executives 
• Continuing education programmes for American and European executives in China 
• Recruitment of Chinese executives for European Businesses