Nankai Business School:
On October 17, 1919, with the spring breeze of the May 4th Movement, Nankai University was officially established. Mr. Zhang Boling, the first president of Nankai University, put forward the school concept of "governing the country by culture, strengthening the country by science, and enriching the country by business", which blazed a trail in modern business education in China. Professor He Lian and Professor Fang Xianting, two doctors graduated from Yale University, successively took charge of Nankai business department, established the teaching and research goal of improving China's business, stipulated that business students should choose "China's issues" as the topic of their thesis, and teachers and students went to Chinese enterprises for investigation and research. After the establishment of Nankai Business School in 1929, with the purpose of "knowing China and serving China", it trained the earliest batch of business management elites in China, and completed high-level research achievements such as China Cotton Textile Industry Report and Nankai Price Index.
Over the past hundred years, Nankai business scholars has always focused on the academic frontier and major social needs, and responded to vital-real problems with profound theories, and determined to create world-class business school. We have important platforms such as national key disciplines, key research base of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, collaborative innovation center jointly built by the Ministry of Education and Tianjin, key research base of philosophy and social sciences of Tianjin, and Sino French joint research base. We lead the country in management, corporate governance, entrepreneurship management, tourism management and other research fields. In 1998, Nankai Management Review, the first management academic journal sponsored by business schools in colleges and universities, was founded. Now, it has become an important academic brand and ideological front of China's business administration discipline. In 2007, the discipline of business administration ranked the third in the national discipline evaluation. In 2017, the discipline of business administration was rated A in the fourth round of national discipline evaluation. Significant breakthroughs have been made in the fifth round of national subject evaluation. The discipline talent training system and quality are renowned at home and abroad, and have successively passed AACSB, AMBA, CAMEA, QP and other well-known certifications.
Support:
Nankai University provides strong and long-term support for faculty members by offering competitive remuneration package and special support in salary and benefits, scientific research start-up funding, settling-in allowance, etc. The employees will sign a personalized contract with the University. At the same time, the University has special talent programs such as “100 Young Talent Scholar Program” to attract scholars with strong research records or potential. Candidates selected in such programs enjoy additional benefits such as higher salary and research fund. Meanwhile the University provides a high-quality kindergarten (inside the school), an affiliated primary school (well-known primary schools in Tianjin), an affiliated middle school (Municipal key secondary school), an affiliated hospital and other facilities, striving to create a development environment where talents can focus on their research.
Teaching / Research Preferences:
Traditional Advantage Fields : Business Management(including Strategic Management), Accounting, Corporate Finance, Strategy Management, Entrepreneurial Management, Corporate Governance, Marketing(including Branding and Online Marketing), service management, Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering (Operation Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, etc?, Information Resource Management?Library Science, Archival Science, Information Science, etc?and related research fields.
New Interdisciplinary Fields : Digital Business, Happiness Industry, Big Data and User Behavior,Cyberspace, Information Security Management, Artificial Intelligence+ management and related research fields.