猶記得剛入學時的振奮
法國的哈佛呢!
站在第二學期的尾巴
開始了解當初Mantor口中的不要對法國官僚抱太大期望

哈佛離開了美國就什麼也不是
看最近密集的Business Week報導
想 HEC也許強在公關吧

一個早我一年入學的台灣人說
他去面試 還得印好MBA排名 因為必問HEC是啥
他得解釋當初幹嘛放著好好工作不做來弄個HEC

這些法國人 原來沒比之前那群自視甚高的德國人
謙虛到哪去

他們要到哪天才能了解
學美國人MBA這套
得把付錢的學生就是顧客至上的態度也一併學好?


http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_11/b3975112.htm

Vive les Différences
On a French hilltop, multilingual business students from all over get a taste of teamwork

Jennifer Miller was surprised when a fellow MBA student asked her to put on a yoga demonstration during an "India Week" cultural celebration last fall at the French business school, HEC. "I said, 'What, don't any of the Indian students do yoga?"' recalls the U.S.-born Miller. "But none of them did."

Cultural stereotypes don't last long at HEC, which draws students from 55 countries to a hilltop campus in the Paris suburb of Jouy-en-Josas. The MBA program, established in 1969 at France's elite Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, has undergone a striking transformation. As recently as 1997, the majority of its students were French and the program was little known overseas. Today, thanks to aggressive international recruiting, only about 15% of students are French, while roughly one-third each are from Asia and the Americas. All core courses are taught in English, although about a quarter of the students opt for additional business courses in French.

INTERPERSONAL EMPHASIS
Along with greater diversity has come global recognition. "We are a symbol of France's openness to the world," says Associate Dean Valérie Gauthier, who oversees the MBA program. HEC has offered a dual-degree program with New York University's Stern School of Business since 2004, and with Tsinghua University's School of Economics & Management in Beijing since last year.

HEC isn't the only European B-school with a strong international flavor. But its small size -- just 200 students -- and relatively long 16-month program (compared with only 10 months at France's INSEAD and Switzerland's IMD) allow students to forge close relationships with others from different backgrounds. Indeed, an emphasis on interpersonal skills is one of HEC's selling points. During the first eight months, each student is assigned to a group of five or six students who work intensively together on projects. Disagreements arise more often from differences in professional training -- engineers vs. financial types, for example -- than from culture clashes, says Nicolas Hobeilah, a student from Syria. "If you're here to adapt and open your eyes, it's a great place to be," he says.

For most students, HEC is merely the latest stop in an impressive global itinerary. Hobeilah graduated from the American University of Beirut and worked for a French company in Dubai, and Miller spent six years on development projects in Africa. Students are required to speak one foreign language besides English, and 80% speak at least three languages.

An India Week celebration hardly seems necessary for such a cosmopolitan crowd. But participants say that such student-organized activities reinforce the esprit de corps. Every spring, HEC hosts a sports tournament for students from 10 European MBA programs who compete in events ranging from basketball to mountain biking. With that kind of competitive spirit, maintaining its place in the MBA big leagues should be easy.

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