溫馨感人的GMBA Unity Ball 2020圓滿落幕

國際事務室暨GMBA辦公室

撰文者／GMBA陳依瑾、一年級郭家驊

2020年的混亂開端為我們的社會設下了許多新的規範，例如維持社交距離和養成隨時隨地消毒的習慣。儘管如此，我們仍非常高興今年的Unity Ball可以順利舉辦，因為這是GMBA一年一度的大型活動，目的是讓分散各地的GMBA家人們能齊聚一堂。 7月20日這一天，教授、校友、新生和在校學生紛紛由四面八方來到台北萬豪酒店，一起慶祝過去一年大家努力的成果與各種美好的回憶。今年的活動主題是「變革的推動者」，適切反映出在今年這個動盪的時期，適應力和領導變革的重要性。

本屆Unity Ball是由中華電信獨家贊助，不少GMBA學生在本學期的Marketing Management課程已與他們有過合作經驗，相信對中華電信一點都不陌生。而今年的Unity Ball也很榮幸能獲得他們的贊助，在此要再次感謝中華電信對GMBA的大力支持。此外，我們也感謝所有的朋友、校友以及包括GMBA學生會成員的所有工作人員，謝謝您們為這一次活動能順利舉辦所做出的付出！

活動在一陣熱鬧的棚拍及大家閒話家常之間拉開序幕，首先，管理學院大家長胡星陽院長，及GMBA執行長許文馨教授分別上台致開幕辭，兩位教授向在場人士簡短介紹管理學院以及GMBA的成立宗旨與迄今的各種成就。緊接著是謝源宏教授對於今晚主題的演講，字裡行間不僅蘊含著大智慧，他也呼籲在座的每一位要敞開心胸擁抱變革。

演講結束後是今年畢業生的表揚大會，得獎名單是由GMBA全體上下投票表決的結果，獎項包含學術卓越獎、團隊貢獻獎、以及其他有趣的獎項。有意思的是，GMBA好學生和團隊MVP這兩個獎項的競爭相當白熱化，反觀最佳演講者和最佳服裝獎的得主大家的意見就非常一致。

除了聊天、更新近況和賓客敬酒之外，抽獎活動也是今晚的焦點之一，今年的獎項不僅包羅萬象，數量之多也足以讓半數的與會者都能抱得獎項回家，而這一切都要歸功於中華電信的慷慨贊助！

熱鬧喧騰的抽獎活動才剛落幕，一個秘密籌劃的求婚驚喜緊接著上場，今晚，所有GMBA成員都一同見證一年級同班同學的劉家昇與馬惠率的愛情故事。全場來賓對於能參與其中都感到非常興奮，一齊開口同聲祝福他們永浴愛河、一切順利。

活動結束前的大合照是GMBA每年的傳統，象徵著大家團結一條心。最後，由衷感謝所有到場的GMBA家人、其他協力贊助廠商，還有中華電信，因為你們的支持和參與，GMBA Unity Ball 2020才能如此圓滿落幕。我們期待未來Unity Ball能愈辦愈盛大、愈辦愈精彩。謝謝大家，我們明年見!

有關中華電信的更多信息，歡迎您瀏覽他們的網站

https://www.cht.com.tw/home/campaign/gxc/c1/service/index.html

https://www.cht.com.tw/home/campaign/gxc/c1/global/index.html

 

Special thanks to Marriott for providing stunning venue, Garden Villa, to host our NTU GMBA Unity Ball event  特別感謝萬豪酒店提供別緻的場地讓我們舉辦台大GMBA Unity Ball

Unity Ball 2020: Agents of Change

With a disruptive start to 2020 that resulted in new norms of social distancing and sanitize-everywhere-you-go, we were thrilled to go through with Unity Ball 2020, our very own annual event to bring the GMBA family together. On 20th July, professors, staff, alumni, new and current students gathered at Marriott Hotel Taipei to celebrate the accomplishments and memories for the past year. Our theme for this year is Agents of Change, reflecting the importance of being adaptable and equipped to lead change in these tumultuous times.

Unity Ball 2020 is proudly sponsored by CHT Telecommunications, whom many of us has worked with this semester for our Marketing Management class. The event would not have been possible without their generous sponsorship, and we would like to take this opportunity to thank them once again. We are also grateful for the friends, alumni, staff who contributed to make this event a great one!

The night kicked off after a frenzy of photobooth snaps and free-flow wine, with Dean Hu and GMBA Director Professor Audrey Hsu addressing new and current students on their achievements thus far and Professor James Hsieh’s stirring speech, imparting nuggets of wisdom to embrace change in today’s context.

Next, we took the time to recognise students from the Class of 2020 and 2021 for their academic excellence, team contributions, and other fun awards – as nominated by GMBAers. It was a close fight for the title of GMBA Overachiever and Group MVP, while we had clear winners for others like Best Speaker and Best Dressed.

In between the introductions, catch ups and toasts among guests, we eased into the lucky draw segment filled with a huge variety of exciting prizes. We are pleased to announce that almost half our attendees walked away feeling very lucky – all thanks to our generous sponsors!

The draw ended with a bang, where GMBAers celebrated newly-engaged first years Samuel and Haesol’s wedding proposal, we are glad to be part of such a meaningful event and wish the lovebirds our very best.

As the night ended, we huddled together for a customary group shot. Thank you to everyone who joined us, our hope for future Unity Ball events is to be bigger and better. Until next year!

Our Sponsors:

Special thanks to our sponsors in their love and support to our NTU GMBA 2020 Unity Ball event. We would like to thank CHT Telecommunications for their big sponsorship as well. For more information about CHT, you are welcome to visit their websites.

https://www.cht.com.tw/home/campaign/gxc/c1/service/index.html

https://www.cht.com.tw/home/campaign/gxc/c1/global/index.html

Guests mingling in the reception area 來賓在接待區熱情寒暄	Guests socialising in the hall throughout the event  會場中大家熱切交流
Professor Audrey Hsu toasting to the GMBA family許文馨老師接受校友敬酒	Professor James Hsieh on his speech about adapting to change 謝源宏教授上台演講
Samuel making an entrance with his entourage 求婚儀式上場	Getting down on one knee for the big moment 浪漫的求婚
Silawan Nawattz and Barry Su, our GMBA Overachievers Silawan Nawattz 與Barry Su 是GMBA好學生獎得主	Peter Lee and Jon Eckstein, winners of Most Likely to Make your Day Peter Lee 和Jon Eckstein是GMBA歡樂製造獎得主
A toast from Student Council 2020 學生會代表敬酒	Many thanks to our sponsors 感謝贊助廠商