New York & Boston
Innovation strategy, entrepreneurship, AI and competitive advantage.
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Executive study trips. A world of perspective.
The world
has changed.
Your perspective?
Meet the people. See the business. Ask the question you couldn’t have asked from home.
We design learning journeys for leading business schools and executive teams, with senior local partners who help you make sense of what you see.
Born in the East. A Western mindset. Now based in Madrid.
THREE CITIES. A WIDER WORLDVIEW.SINCE 2016
SHANGHAIMADRIDLOS ANGELES
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Our clients & collaborators
Business schools. Global institutions. Executive teams.
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The KNOHAO difference
The visit is the start.
The insight is the point.
A company visit tells you what a business does. The right conversation reveals why it works, what makes it possible, and what it could mean for you.
Our Shanghai roots and Western mindset help us ask questions across cultures. Senior partners in each destination bring the local judgment to answer them.
OUR POINT OF VIEW01 + 02
EastShanghai roots.Experience from the inside.
WestA Western mindset.Questions across cultures.
01
Your questions come first.
A decision to make. An assumption to test. An idea to explore. We build the learning agenda around what matters to your group.
02
Senior partners. Real context.
People who know the place help design the program, guide the conversation and explain the forces behind what you see.
03
The business and the world around it.
The factory, the platform, the street. Technology makes more sense when you understand the people, institutions and habits around it.
04
Time to think it through.
The conversation continues after the visit. Compare what you’ve heard, challenge each other and work out what travels home with you.
China, beyond the headlines
Look closer.
China changes the question.
A robot on a factory floor. An EV brand rewriting expectations. A livestream turning attention into sales. China’s story is in the connections between them.
Explore what global leaders can learn from its technology, its consumers, and the speed at which the two meet.
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Where demand
takes shape.
Nanjing Road · Shanghai
Intelligence
in action.
WAIC 2025 · Shanghai
A different
pace of change.
Auto Shanghai 2025 · BYD Han L EV
New ways to discover.
New reasons to buy.
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A QUESTION TO TAKE INTO THE FIELD
What technology
makes possible.×What people
actually want.
makes possible.×What people
actually want.
What happens where the two meet?
01
Applied AI & robotics
From demonstrations to deployment. Examine the workflow, economics and human decisions behind automation.
02
EVs & industrial scale
Connect product development, supply chains, software and competition within one industrial system.
03
Quantum & deep tech
Separate scientific promise from commercial readiness. Ask what leaders should monitor and why.
04
Livestream commerce
Explore how creators, trust, entertainment and transactions come together in a sales channel.
05
Micro-consumption
Understand small, frequent purchases driven by identity, emotion, community and accessible indulgence.
06
Platforms & new retail
Look at how discovery, distribution, payments and physical experience reshape the customer relationship.
14 destinations. Many ways to see.
Where will your
questions take you?
London & Cambridge
Strategy under uncertainty, technology, regulation and leadership.
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Munich
Advanced manufacturing, automotive transformation and the Mittelstand.
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Singapore
Regional strategy, technology, supply chains and state-business coordination.
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Mexico
Nearshoring, manufacturing, automotive and US–Mexico integration.
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Iceland
Geothermal energy, wellness, sustainable tourism and destination strategy.
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For business schools
Give the classroom
a world to work with.
Bring ideas into contact with reality. We work with faculty and program directors to design MBA, EMBA and executive education immersions with a clear academic purpose and room for discovery.
Programs for business schools
For executive teams
See something new.
Think it through together.
Step into a different market, business model or way of working. Give your leadership team the context and conversation to question its assumptions and make better-informed choices.
Corporate executive immersionsIn the field
Different places.
New ways of seeing.
A closer look at international learning, through the experiences our clients share.
A closer look at China.
AI, robotics and drug discovery at XtalPi. Cashless payments at Huifu. Conversations about doing business across borders. Rady’s China immersion connected technology and strategy with the everyday experience of a changing market.
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Where heritage meets reinvention.
How do established brands evolve without losing what makes them distinctive? CEIBS Global EMBA participants explored that question in Italy, with company visits to Armani, Eataly and Pino Grasso Ricami linking craftsmanship, customer expectations and business strategy.
Read CEIBS’s module storyA question worth taking into the world
The thinking behind the journeys
When intelligence
is everywhere,
what matters more?
Judgment. Trust. Attention. A reason to care.
Roy Chason’s Upside Down Economics explores what becomes valuable as AI changes the economics of work and business. We take those questions into the field, where people, companies and places can challenge the theory.
Explore the ideas behind our tripsWhat would change the way you see?
Tell us about your group and the questions on your mind. We’ll start there.