EMbA – continued
How does it look inside?
Decoration will be a fusion/hybrid design of Chinese and English. There are 4 major “corners” namely kids, coffee, books and sharing.
- The kids’ corner will have glass partitions such that parents can keep an eye on their kids. Of course there will toys, soft mats and books for kids.
- The coffee corner will serve coffee, cake and snacks.
- The book corner will have shelf for donated books/case studies and stands for new books.
- The sharing corner will have few small private rooms and big round tables for 8-10 people group discussions. The big screen will be there with audio visual facilities. If space permits we may equip that corner with a baby grand piano for people to show off their skills.
Membership
All CU graduates from business administration faculty can join with a small annual fee. Students are welcome to enjoy the facility but certain services may not be available to them until they have graduated (such as recruitment and “match-making”).
If you are member of the CUMBA alumni association you are automatically a member at a reduced subscription rate.
Business Viability
Ideally EMbA will be located at a high floor of a commercial building in either Central or Admiralty where convenient access by car and public transport is available. No of attendance required would be limited to 3-4 to reduce costs as members are business executives who will behave appropriately with minimal attention and take good care of the facilities there. The income of EMbA will therefore be the coffee corner, which should be ideally operated by the vendor at a monthly fee, sale of books and annual membership subscriptions. Possible income streams of course would be sponsorships from major businesses that our members are working in, commission (50% of gross income received at wedding banquet of match-making services) and 10% commissions of all transactions conducted between members within EMbA.
Acknowledgement
- EMbA credit card is coming soon; services charged under that credit card enjoy additional discounts (May at Standard Chartered, hurry up please!).
- Member T-shirt is proudly sponsored by Giordano (Queenie, another new design please).
- Toys in kids’ corner were kindly provided and will be renewed every 3 months by Li & Fung (Andy we look forward to seeing your kids playing there!). Baby food will be available free from Heinz, thanks to Steven, to help your kids growing strong. Medical attendance if you need them may be available from Shawn or other Doctors from 2007 if they are around.
- Legal advice is obviously available from 2007 classmates next door or when Karen, Wilson’s lovely wife, stops by.
- Thank you Candy for supplying the glue, by Henkel Loctite, for the notice board and other things that needed gluing.
- Member will enjoy special discount for promotional sales herein EMbA by Calvin Klein and Brooks Brothers, courtesy of Martin and Lewis.
- This investment project is jointly financed by HSBC, Hang Seng, UBS and Sun Hung Kei Finance. As this project will definitely be profitable therefore there is no compelling reasons at all for an exit strategy but due to the high demand of shares future IPO will be managed by Easterly Financial Investment Limited (Wilson you proposal please).
- We are also grateful to have generous donation from Ultra Group for all the furniture in EMbA (big thanks to Vesper).
- The very nice “Steinway & Sons” baby grand came from Virginia who said her inspirations come mostly from classmates therefore her piano belongs to here.
- Computers, with “Intel’s” latest “Duo Core Do More”, for Internet access were donated by Annie and Margaret.
- Coffee in EMbA is exclusively supplied by Pacific Coffee (thank you Oscar, I’m sure Professor Chan will preach him to join EMBA one day) and occasionally there may be Chinese food with dressing from Lee Kum Kee (thank you Fanny).
- Although EMbA is accessible easily by KCR and KMB but if you occasionally walked too much Elaine would probably help right at this club within closed door.
- Use of mobile phone is strictly prohibited in EMbA but Enid is encouraged to introduce new products and services here.
- We have not forgotten sports. Sound souls need capable bodies therefore Anita will design and promote suitable sports (sorry Mahjong is not considered sports) activities from time to time for the well being of members.
- Pirated CDs to be sponsored by Roger but EMbA disclaims responsibility for any private transactions conducted.
- Mail marketing, monthly newsletter, postal and courier services will be kindly supported by HongkongPost, thank you Y F, the JP.
- Swatch by Louise will be on sale from time to time at very special discount of course.
- Deluxe group tour designed, organized and managed by Stephen will be available exclusively to members of EMbA.
