Hupan University

Hupan University (湖畔大学) is a corporate business school located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. It was founded in 2015 by Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group, a multinational technology conglomerate.[1]

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, which itself was founded during the banking panic of 1907.[2]

The institution also offers online classes.[3]

Alumni
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gollark: ffmpeg can probably do it with accursion.
gollark: Well, if I wanted to watch TV from my server, I would send the *compressed video stream* to my client device somehow.
gollark: Why are you X tunneling? Just don't do that.
gollark: I mean, my Raspberry Pi actually isn't since it doesn't do OoO.

References
  1. "Jack Ma's Hupan University kicks off new class, includes Horizon Robotics CEO · TechNode". technode.com. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  2. Private companies have put down strong roots in China. The Economist. London. 30 April 2020
  3. "99 yuan per year: Jack Ma's Hupan University launches open classes online". People's Daily Online. Retrieved May 6, 2020.


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