Hupan University (湖畔大学) is a corporate
business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, o ...
located in Yuhu Bay, Xihu (西湖)
Hangzhou,
Zhejiang Province
Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangs ...
, China. It was founded in 2015 by
Jack Ma, founder of
Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate.
This business school have 9 co-founders including Jack Ma, Chuanzhi Liu, Lun feng, Guangchang Guo, Yuzhu Shi, Guojun Shen, Yingyi Qian, Hongbing Cai and Xiaofeng Shao.
Hupan University is ranked 101-200th in WURI Global Top 100 Innovative Universities Ranking 2021.
History
Jack Ma and nine fellow business executives decided to found a school based in China, during the
2015–16 Chinese stock market turbulence as China's answer to
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
, which itself was founded during the banking
panic of 1907
The Panic of 1907, also known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic or Knickerbocker Crisis, was a financial crisis that took place in the United States over a three-week period starting in mid-October, when the New York Stock Exchange fell almost 50% from ...
.
The institution also offers online classes.
Jack Ma stepped down from the Presidency of the university in 2021. The organization announced it would restructure, including changing its name to Hupan Innovation Center and disassociate itself from Ma.
Alumni
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Justin Sun, cryptocurrency business owner
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Tiger Hu, singer-songwriter and producer
References
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Education in Hangzhou
Business schools in China
2015 establishments in China
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