The Mentorship Dining Series features a meal and discussion with notable Harvard alumni. The Mentorship Dining Series provides an intimate setting for private conversations to take place and allow recent graduates to ask questions of experienced Alumni. There will be a general topic to begin with, but other questions regarding career choices, difficult work decisions, insights into the workplace and opportunities are also open for discussion.

The Harvard Club of Shanghai will be hosting the next Mentorship Lunch on Saturday August 22, 2015 with our featured alumna Carol Liao (HBS 1998), Managing Director of Boston Consulting Group, Greater China. Carol will focus on her comprehensive experience with consulting in China, as well as current industry trends.

Reservations will be offered on a first-come first-serve basis to Regular Members and Associate Members before Aug 20th. 

The Mentorship Dining Series is brought to you by the Professional Networking and Development Committee of the Harvard Club of Shanghai. We invite you to join our LinkedIn Group, "Harvard Club of Shanghai", in order to connect and stay in touch with other members, join discussion boards on related topics, and keep up-to-date on networking events.

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Event details

Date: Saturday August 22, 2015

Time: 12PM-2PM

Fee:

200 RMB for Regular Members. Regular Members, please contact the Club if you have not received your VIP code

250 RMB for Associate Members

RSVP and pre-payment required

Bio of Carol Liao (HBS 1998)

Managing Director of Boston Consulting Group - Greater China

Senior Partner and Managing Director

Carol Liao is the Managing Director of BCG's Greater China. She is a key member of BCG’s Asia Consumer Goods and Health Care practice groups.

Ms. Liao joined BCG Greater China in 1995. Carol has extensive consulting experience with both multinational companies and Asian corporations, across a wide range of strategy and organizational issues. As one of the core leaders of BCG’s Consumer practice in Asia as well as the leader of BCG’s Center for Consumer and Customer Insight in Asia, Ms. Liao has led business growth and optimization initiatives for numerous major global consumer companies in China and Asia.

Ms. Liao has published many articles and reports such as "The Age of the Affluent: The Dynamics of China’s Next Consumption Engine", "Dressing Up: Capturing the Dynamic Growth of China’s Fashion Market", "Consumer Sentiment 2011: Navigating the New Consumer Realities", "Big Prizes in Small Places: China’s Rapidly Multiplying Pockets of Growth", "The Keys to the Kingdom: Unlocking China’s Consumer Power", "Foreign or Local Brands in China?", "The Quest for Defendable Scale in China", and "Winning the Hearts and Minds of China’s Consumers". Ms. Liao is also the co-author of BCG’s new book The $10 Trillion Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India (Harvard Business Review Press, October 2012).

Prior to joining BCG, Carol worked at a leading global consumer goods company. Carol holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Commercial Law from Peking University (Beida). Carol is a native Mandarin speaker, and is fluent in English.