SPONSOREDFEATURE
S
upercharged
career woman in a
slow-motion world
By graduating with an MBA in Logistics Management from the Kühne School
in Hamburg, Germany, Sophonia Siu Man Tsang has laid the foundation
stone for an international career.
It was a bit of a culture the work undertaken there would be of high quality and in
shock, leaving the turbu- accordance with international standards.
lent, fast-living world of “Our aim is to prepare young professionals from com-
Hong Kong and landing in a panies that control logistics processes for management
quiet campus in the North responsibilities,” said Martina Heinrich, the Kühne School’s
German city of Hamburg, Head of Recruitment and Student Affairs, explaining the
population 1.7 million. On goal of the one-year program that is held entirely in Eng-
visiting her future business lish. The course, which lasts four terms, combines mod-
school for the first time in ules on logistics and management subjects with training in
summer 2007, Sophonia interpersonal abilities such as intercultural communication,
Siu Man Tsang was amazed conflict management and negotiating skills. Participants
Different culture, different food –
at the slow pace of people round off the year with a three-month Master’s thesis.
Ms Tsang in Germany
in Hamburg and at shop Tsang’s expectations were not disappointed. “At the
opening times. Everyone Kühne School you get a good mix of theory and practice,
moved noticeably more slowly than in Hong Kong. Away both in terms of general management and of logistics sub-
from the campus, she found that even food stores in the jects,” she said, summing up her year in Germany. The Küh-
North German city close early in the evening and that it is ne School signs lecturers and professors from well-known
practically impossible to shop on Sundays. In the stores, universities around the world to teach on its programs.
it was not always possible to get by
in English because some salespeople

spoke only German.
The Kühne School of Logistics and Management in Hamburg
Tsang, 27, had left Hong Kong to join
a one-year Master of Business Admin-
The Kühne School of Logistics and Management was founded in 2003 as
istration (MBA) program at the Kühne
a joint venture by the Hamburg University of Technology and the Kühne
School of Logistics and Management.
Foundation, based in Schindellegi, Switzerland.
Here in far-off Germany she wanted
In addition to the one-year full-time program
to learn more about how logistics pro-
the Kühne School offers a two-year part-time
cesses and companies are managed.
in-service MBA program and two Master’s pro-
She had previously spent several years
grams in International Industrial Engineering
working in Hong Kong for the Swiss
and in Logistics, Infrastructure and Mobility.
shipping and logistics group Kühne &
The business school is also building up a re-
Nagel, which operates worldwide. Ini-
search center and holds expert forums and
tially in sales and marketing, she sub-
in-service training for logistics experts. To
sequently became a shipping trainee in
qualify for admission, candidates must pass
operational cargo traffic. Now she had
the Graduate Management Admission Test
arrived in a different world, armed with
(GMAT) and the Test of English as a Foreign
a scholarship from the Kühne School.
Language (TOEFL). Candidates may apply for
Tsang’s German boss in Hong Kong had
a Kühne School scholarship.
told her that Hamburg was Germany’s
leading port. Prior to applying, she had surmised that Courses are also taught by professors of the Hamburg
since her employer Kühne & Nagel had not only lent its University of Technology (TUHH), on whose campus the
name to the Kühne School but also backed it financially, Kühne School is located, and by practitioners from busi-
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