Meet the people. See the business. Ask the question you couldn’t have asked from home.
We design MBA, EMBA and executive learning immersions in China and worldwide. Company visits, expert conversations and senior local partners connect your learning objectives to the business on the ground.
Our clients & collaborators
Business schools. Global institutions. Executive teams.
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Explore the learning themes and encounters in three programs, with photographs and links to published accounts.
A robot-arm demonstration brought participants face to face with the technology. Esade’s Munich immersion with Iván Bofarull took EmprendeXXI award winners inside companies including Agile Robots and Reactive Robotics to explore the businesses behind the innovation.
AI, robotics and drug discovery at XtalPi. Cashless payments at Huifu. Conversations about doing business across borders. Rady’s China immersion connected technology and strategy with the everyday experience of a changing market.
Innovation becomes tangible when you meet the people building it. During IESE’s April 2023 visits to Google in Tel Aviv, participants explored entrepreneurship, digital business and growth with local speakers, startup founders and investors.
A company visit tells you what a business does. The right conversation reveals why it works, what makes it possible, and what it could mean for you.
Our Shanghai roots and Western mindset help us ask questions across cultures. Senior partners in each destination bring the local judgment to answer them.
A decision to make. An assumption to test. An idea to explore. We build the learning agenda around what matters to your group.
People who know the place help design the program, guide the conversation and explain the forces behind what you see.
The factory, the platform, the street. Technology makes more sense when you understand the people, institutions and habits around it.
The conversation continues after the visit. Compare what you’ve heard, challenge each other and work out what travels home with you.
A robot on a factory floor. An EV brand rewriting expectations. A livestream turning attention into sales. China’s story is in the connections between them.
Explore what global leaders can learn from its technology, its consumers, and the speed at which the two meet.
Explore our China study trips
What happens where the two meet?
From demonstrations to deployment. Examine the workflow, economics and human decisions behind automation.
Connect product development, supply chains, software and competition within one industrial system.
Separate scientific promise from commercial readiness. Ask what leaders should monitor and why.
Explore how creators, trust, entertainment and transactions come together in a sales channel.
Understand small, frequent purchases driven by identity, emotion, community and accessible indulgence.
Look at how discovery, distribution, payments and physical experience reshape the customer relationship.
Innovation strategy, entrepreneurship, AI and competitive advantage.
Strategy under uncertainty, technology, regulation and leadership.
Advanced manufacturing, automotive transformation and the Mittelstand.
Regional strategy, technology, supply chains and state-business coordination.
Nearshoring, manufacturing, automotive and US–Mexico integration.
Geothermal energy, wellness, sustainable tourism and destination strategy.
Compare six destinations for AI, robotics and executive learning. Choose a route around what your MBA cohort or leadership team needs to understand.
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Bring ideas into contact with reality. We work with faculty and program directors to design MBA, EMBA and executive education immersions with a clear academic purpose and room for discovery.
Programs for business schools
Step into a different market, business model or way of working. Give your leadership team the context and conversation to question its assumptions and make better-informed choices.
Corporate executive immersions
Judgment. Trust. Attention. A reason to care.
Roy Chason’s Upside Down Economics explores what becomes valuable as AI changes the economics of work and business. We take those questions into the field, where people, companies and places can challenge the theory.
Explore the ideas behind our tripsWe agree on the learning agenda and delivery scope with you before the program is confirmed.
Define the group profile, academic or strategic objectives, themes and available time. Choose the destination and route to fit that brief.
Develop relevant company encounters and expert conversations. Specific hosts, speakers and access are subject to confirmation during planning.
Bring in senior local partners and make room to compare observations, question assumptions and connect the experience to the group’s objectives.
Agree on responsibilities for accommodation, local transport, meals, language support and on-site coordination. The proposal sets out what is included and what is arranged separately.
We discuss your brief, clarify any fixed requirements and develop a proposed learning route and delivery scope. Your dates, group size, objectives and budget range give us a useful starting point.
Compare the cities by the questions your group wants to investigate.
Design a Shanghai study trip for MBA, EMBA or executive teams. Explore international strategy, digital payments, consumer innovation and business in China.
Plan a Shenzhen innovation study tour focused on hardware, robotics, electric mobility and manufacturing. Custom programs for business schools and leadership teams.
Explore digital platforms, e-commerce and consumer innovation through a Hangzhou study trip. Custom MBA, EMBA and executive learning journeys with KNOHAO.
Tell us about your group and the questions on your mind. We’ll start there.
