Strategy, operations, consulting and business development. We place commercially minded students next to the founders, country managers and chiefs of staff who run companies in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore and Bangkok, and we handle the visa paperwork, the housing and the introductions.
A business placement puts you next to a chief of staff, a country manager or a founder, on the questions they actually have to answer that quarter: a market entry, a pricing change, whether to add a product line.
We place students in strategy and corporate development, operations and supply chain, management consulting, and business development. Every seat is arranged after a call about what you can already do and what you want to learn.
The companies are small enough that you're visible. Interns here draft board memos, sit in pricing reviews, visit a factory floor, and leave with a piece of work that went to a real decision-maker.
You won't shadow a manager for ten weeks. The placement is built around one question that needs answering, scoped so you can finish it and defend it in the time you have.
A business degree helps but isn't required. What matters is judgement and the willingness to defend a position.
We find that out on a call. We don't ask for a transcript.
Every seat is arranged after the call. These are the shapes the work usually takes, not open positions.
Market sizing, competitor reads, the case for a new line. The questions that go to the CEO.
Pricing, logistics, supplier negotiations. The parts of the business nobody has had time to fix.
Project work for a regional consultancy or an in-house team: interviews, analysis, a memo, a presentation.
Finding partners and customers, drafting terms, sitting in on the calls.
Working next to the principal of a family-owned company on the portfolio, succession or a new venture.
Say so on the call. The five above are the shapes we usually find, not a menu.
Hong Kong is banks, trading companies and regional head offices. Business placements here tend to sit in corporate development or on a deal team, and the work is document-heavy.
Shanghai is China's commercial capital: country-manager offices and the strategy teams of consumer brands. Some Mandarin helps day to day. It isn't required for the placements we make.
Singapore is where most multinationals run Southeast Asia from. Strategy and corporate development teams, and the easiest city to arrive in if you're new to the region.
Bangkok is run by family-owned groups with a newer layer of professional managers. Teams are small, so an intern sees how decisions actually get made.
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