An interesting interview in the Wall Street Journal online:
"Alan F. White, senior associate dean, directs executive education at the U.S. business school and runs its international programs, including the China Management Education Program, which he founded with Prof. Lester Thurow. The program sends Sloan faculty to China and Chinese management professors to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for an intensive educational exchange, sponsored by Sloan alumni and other supporters, including Victor Fung of the Hong Kong trading house Li & Fung Ltd. The program's object: raise the game in Chinese business school education as China's rollicking economy demands more and better leaders."
Read the whole piece here--a short, wide-ranging interview on China, career advice, and crossing cultures.
More on the MIT program here.
How long will it be, do you suppose, before US schools have to compete against English-language colleges, fully accredited, based in China where tuition will be a fraction of that over here? How many American undergrads might choose to do one or two years in China in such a program and save tens of thousands of dollars in the process? Or is such a model unlikely to emerge?
