学校简介 这里强调一下哥大对国际学生是很友好的，国际学生所占比例在全美各商学院中名列前茅。这两年尤其对中国学生进行了扩招，2002年中国学生只招了2个大陆直接过去的，2006年则招了9个。我开学之后一次和Adcom的Ben聊天的时候，他特别提到哥大很重视中国，希望多招一些中国学生的。 CBS的校友很友好的。 按照学校的要求，我同时发了邀请函给三个校友的。一个非常senior的校友说他正好在出差，但是他出差回来以后愿意和我见见面！他还祝我面试顺利。 约了一个做投资的校友。面试里面我谈到一个公司做得很好，我们想学他们，面试官说刚好是他朋友开的，准备介绍给我认识。这个面试官人也很友善，就是好像不是特别重视这个面试。他还说面试不是最重要的。 有些网站说CBS这种学校学生下了课就消失在都市里，学生关系不密切，对学校没感情，对校友不友好。我看是空穴来风。至少中国的校友都非常友好。 哥大羽毛球协会的中国人也很友好的，说欢迎我去blue gym 参加他们的活动。他们和U Pen, NYU, Princeton还定期有tournament，我去了大概可以当主力吧...嘿 I think the alumnus is right that the interview is not the most important thing in the application. Interview is just a double-check process. Very much like the VISA interview. I personally believe that your fate is 80% determined before the interview - just my personal view though. As to the New York City distraction - yes there's something in it that many students live off-campus. However, people usually stay on campus till very late (say 10 pm), especially when there are recruiting events, social events, or simply study group discussion. Columbia students/alumni are especially passionate about the school - partly because the school screened the applicants and commitment to CBS is a very important component in the admission process. Here are some social events/clubs that are especially important in the social life of CBS: 1) Happy Hour (HH). Every Thursday evening, usu. from 6:30 PM to 10 PM. Pre-HH parties and after-HH parties are organized and turnout is great. Every HH is sponsored by a specific club and/or company, i.e. Investment Banking Club & Merill Lynch, Consulting Club & Bain, etc. 2) Social clubs, such as rugby teams (both men and women). The rugby teams are very good examples how in B-school everything serves to form relationships. These teams are more social clubs rather than sports clubs, you'll get to know this part of b-school life when you get here! 3) Inter/inner-cluster parties. The good thing about NYC is that you have all venues to hold dinners, cocktails, parties. These are in addition to the house-warming parties, gambling parties (strongly recommended, haha), drinking parties, b-day parties, and whatever parties you can think of, which will be held in a more intimate way. People get to know each other really well in such parties. 一封有趣的信 介绍：一封有趣的信，尝试对和谐社会和中国商业道德向孔孟和墨家思想追根溯源。可能会对申请stanford and columbia的同学有用。Stanford比较讲求独特角度和思想深度，columbia则可能会欣赏对于人文精神的追求，另外此文中提到的Hu Shih，即胡适同学，是哥大的校友。
Dear Friends and Colleagues: Last week I returned from a brief trip to China. I was privileged to deliver a short paper at a conference in Shanghai. The theme of the conference was how China can develop a “harmonious society”. Our panel was asked to reflect on how business ethics and corporate social responsibility could contribute to that end. The vision of a “harmonious society”, I was told, is taken from the writings of Hu Shih, a noted Chinese writer of the 1920’s. Hu Shih in his time was seeking to describe a modern China, part of the global community, but one that still retained a sense for order and achieved better livelihoods for all. Today, the Chinese leadership seeks something similar: use of free markets and participation in a global economy but with restraint on abuses of power and self-seeking exploitation of others. The discussions of how to build this China seem genuine and open to reflection and new ideas. It is my hope that as the CRT develops its relationships with Chinese colleagues we might be able to contribute constructively some well-reasoned conclusions for their consideration. In my paper I suggested that indeed business ethics and CSR as conceived and practiced in Europe and America could easily fit within a Chinese moral framework leading to the desired “harmonious society”. I suggested that China has in fact two major normative models for business ethics – one derived from Confucius and Mencius and the other derived from the recommendations of Mo Di. The Confucian tradition that I specified is contained in The Analects, and not in later writings that conform to the influence of Imperial pretensions. This tradition I consider to rest on ethics and the expectation of responsible individualism. The normative model provided by Mo Ti, on the other hand, I consider to rely on compliance mechanisms only. Mo Ti lived and wrote after Confucius and did not agree with his expectations of individual moral potential. Mo Ti thought little of individuals and, accordingly, recommended that social and political order be achieved through forced compliance with the will of superior authority. China could use a Mohist compliance approach to seeking a “harmonious society”, but at a cost of lost creativity and restricted freedoms. Alternatively, use of the Confucian/Mencian approach would build a “harmonious society” within a framework of individual excellence. Finally, I suggested that President Hu’s recent recommendation of 8 do’s and don’t’s was an attempt to blend Mohist pessimism with the more optimistic Confucian/Mencian approach. For those of you who might be interested in the complete paper, a copy of Two Traditional Chinese Normative Models for Business Ethics has been attached to this email (a 19-page PDF) and also posted on our website (www.cauxroundtable.org) under publications and papers. Sincerely yours,
Stephen B. Young
Global Executive Director
Caux Round Table
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