欧洲的顶级商学院/MBA

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几个月前申请欧洲版的斑竹时, 许诺要写这么一篇文章. 这么晚才交上作业, 实在是不好意思啊. 少说废话, 转入正题.

[[[首先声明一下, 这个帖子我并不打算自己来写. 既然是public forum, 那么我们一定要集合大家的智慧与经验, 才是最好的方式, 我相信. 所以, 强烈的号召大家踊跃提供信息, 尤其是各个b-school的校友, 一定多多支持, 我会负责更新到主贴上, 并注明作者和更新时间. 谢谢大家]]]

传统上, 一般认为MBA教育的正统是美国, 欧洲对MBA的重视远远不够. 10年前或许如此, 10年后的今天, 已经完全不同. 不论是历史悠久, 享有盛誉的法国INSEAD商学院, 或者深藏于新晋世界金融第一城, 却“全面美国化”的伦敦商学院, 还是崇尚精英教育, 奉Leadership为第一信条的瑞士IMD, 均能当之无愧的跻身世界顶级商学院之林. 放在美国这个遍地商学院的国家, 他们也能毫无困难的进入前5名或前10名. 在业界, 它们是欧洲的Harvard, Wharton and Tuck. 不仅如此, 老牌的西班牙商学院IESE历久弥坚, 同样在西班牙, 新晋的IE 迎头赶上. 在牛津剑桥的超级影响力下, 短短十几年的Said和Judge商学院的发展势头迅猛无比. 曼彻斯特商学院和巴黎HEC同样不甘人后. 等等等等

在这里, 我们将它们分成3个级别, 一一介绍. 同一级别里分出谁第一, 谁第二是没有意义的, 因为对不同的人, 答案或许完全不同. It’s all about fitness.

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我是米兰理工大学（Politecnico di Milano）MIP商学院的校友。我在该校读MBA的。学校的MBA分两个班，一个国际班，还有个意大利语班。国际班的学生来自世界各地，当时我们班30来个人，来自18个国家和地区。国际班用英语授课，但是经常也会有些课和意大利班一起上。

学校课程设置现在是1年，还有三个月的实习。这一年里分四个学期，前三个学期都是大家一起上的基础课程，基本上就是那些商学院的课程，比如经济学，金融，会计，市场营销，供应链管理，组织行为学等等，但是比较有特色的有创新管理，（Innovation Management）.第三个学期是最忙的，课程比较重，而且还有做Organization Checkup。就是学校把学生分成4/5人小组，去各大公司做一个咨询项目。项目课题一般在分组的时候就定下来，每个组有个指导教授。除了这个项目比较重要，还有就是那段晚上学校经常有公司做宣讲，宣讲主要针对三个月实习和今后可能的工作机会。所以项目也要做好，因为如果项目做的好，公司也会提供实习机会，以及今后的工作。宣讲会也要好好参加，因为可能看到自己喜欢的公司。比如我那届法拉利公司来的时候，大部分同学都穿得西装笔挺的来参加。还有gucci公司来的时候，教室里也是坐满了人。宣讲会从9月开始，一般先来的都是咨询公司，从 Mckinsey, BCG, 罗兰贝格，Bain,Accenture 等等到欧洲一些本土的咨询公司如porsche保时捷咨询公司。但是咨询公司对语言要求比较高一点，比如在意大利语，而像porsche保时捷咨询公司也还要求会德语。所以中国学生如果语言能力好的话，机会还是蛮多的。

第四个学期轻松一点，主要是选修课。有设计和奢侈品管理，金融，服务管理等。我当时就是冲着设计和奢侈品管理来的。有上设计课，有去法拉利和gucci参观工厂，还有去米兰的很多奢侈品商店一起研究设计等。还有几个去其他国家商学院交换的机会，时间不长，大概一周左右，就是去上一门课，不过还是蛮好玩的。有去比利时，法国，西班牙等。当时12月份正好有个欧洲的招聘会在布鲁塞尔，所以我的很多同学就去比利时上课，顺便参加招聘会。我那次没去，就去了来年在柏林的招聘会，感觉不错，也认识几个中国学生，蛮开心的。感觉在欧洲的招聘会和中国的招聘会真是差别很大，那次去感觉，招聘公司的Hr和应聘的学生是1比2。所以你在鸡尾酒会上，可以和很多hr聊。因为学校也有赞助这个招聘会，所以不需要参加招聘会的费用。

大概2月中的时候课程就结束了，然后就开始三个实习。

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IESE V0.3

第二学期开学快一个月了，开学前两天基本是投行和咨询的实习面试，把目前的情况给大家通报一下吧，CLASS 09共2个大陆的,6个台湾的，目前offer情况：一个德意志Hongkong office,一个Citi London office, 两个American Express 英国（一个在London，一个忘了），一个小咨询公司shanghai office，当然这不是最后确定的情况，大家都还在继续面试，争取更多的机会。今年投行的比较少，两个原因，一个是市场不太好，另一个8个人里面基本上有一半不想干投行，也没认真准备面试。

以后有新消息，再更新。

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http://www.rsm.nl


Telephone:
+31 (0)10-408 22 22

Mailing Address:
Rotterdam School of Management
PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands

RSM Opening Hours:
Monday - Friday: 8.00 - 22.00 hrs (GMT +01)
Saturday: 8.00 - 17.00 hrs (GMT +01) Fax:
+31 (0)10-452 95 09

Visiting/Courier Address:
Rotterdam School of Management
J Building
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50
3062 PA Rotterdam The Netherlands

RSM Office Hours:
Monday - Friday: 9.00 - 17.00 hrs (GMT +01)

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EUR / FBK / FEW

The roots of the Rotterdam School of Management lead back to 1966, where a perceived lack of appropriate training for managers in The Netherlands induced Royal Dutch Shell, together with other companies including Philips, to set up the Foundation for Business Administration (Stichting Bedrijfskunde) to provide post-experience management education.

In 1969, the foundation established a "Graduate School of Management" alongside the Foundation, which was now a joint venture between Technische Universiteit Delft and the Netherlands School of Economics at Rotterdam (now Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam). The Inter-university Institute Bedrijfskunde offered a two-year program to students holding a "candidaats" degree (bachelors equivalent) leading to a doctorandus degree (masters level) in business administration. The program delivered about 1,800 graduates. When the "candidaats" degree was abolished by new legislation in 1981, the "post-candidaats" program was terminated too. Instead, a regular first tier program in business administration and a post-graduate (and progressively post-experience) MBA program was initiated.

the full-time MBA was launched in the fall of 1985. Strategically, the MBA had multiple goals. It was to act as a continuation of the Interfaculteit Bedrijfskunde program developed by Erasmus Universititeit Rotterdam (EUR) and Technische Universiteit Delft in the 70s, round out the course offering, generate income, and develop international prestige. One year later, in 1986, the Foundation Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), was set up as the School's separate vehicle for postgraduate programs. Since its founding, RSM has become a leading graduate business school in Europe and built a reputation of being among the top business schools in the world.

In 1989, several non-degree programs and tailor-made executive and in-company programs were started for organizations in both the profit and the non-profit sector. In 1988, the post-graduate International MBI Program in Business Informatics was launched and since 1991, the MBI has been fully integrated with the full-time MBA program as a parallel track, dual degree MBA/MBI program.

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History and Background of the RSM

History at a Glance


1913 Foundation of Netherlands School of Commerce
1938 Netherlands School of Economics
1969 Foundation of Graduate School of Management
1969 Nobel Prize awarded to Erasmus Professor Jan Tinbergen
1973 Foundation of Erasmus University
1985 Start of the Master of Business Administration Program
1988 Start of the MBA/MBI Program
1989 Start of RSM Executive Education
1996 Start of weekend part-time Executive MBA
2000 RSM enters new century in brand-new building
2001 Start of Master in HR Leadership and Master in Financial Management

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RSM
The Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (or RSM Erasmus University) is an international business school located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The business school of the renowned Erasmus University Rotterdam, RSM offers a wide array of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes taught mostly in English including a top-ranked MBA programme that is not associated with the rest of the university, senior management seminars, and a PhD programme. RSM utilises its location in the commercial heart of Europe and its core Dutch values of openness, tolerance and flexibility, as a platform for its primary focus – the development of leaders in global business.

The university has been ranked among the top 20 best business schools in the world by The Wall Street Journal international rankings. The Financial Times has ranked RSM as one op the top 10 European Business Schools. RSM has achieved Triple Crown Accreditation from AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB, and is part of the respected consortium of Europe's leading school's and corporate partners - Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). RSM is also a member of the Partnership in International Management (PIM) network. The school is also highly international - in some programmes, non-Dutch students represent 96% of the total number

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IESE V.2

正式开学快一个月了，再简单介绍下自己的感觉，希望更多的人申请IESE

课程,以案例讨论为主，一般每天4节课，3个案例，1节西语，上课前一小时小组内部先讨论，每个小组有个教授和二年级学生做mentor；上课时也主要是在教授引导下进行全班讨论来分析案例，教授最常说的就是，学会从你的同学身上学习知识；

就业,Career Forum这周刚结束，IB除了GS基本都来了,大摩，雷曼，美林，CITI，德意志算是比较积极的，一堆一堆的人来，不少校友，早餐，晚餐啥的活动不断；Consulting 三巨头也都来了，不过活动比较少，只有Booz安排了dinner；Industry可能西班牙的企业比例要高一些，但国际企业也不少；总的来说，招的基本是欧洲office，亚洲的比较少。（去年中国人的实习情况，我了解的：一个大陆的去了雷曼；5个台湾的，一个去了美林，一个德意志，一个去了咨询，一个是家乐福，还有一个忘了）

学生，以我们小组为例吧，3个咨询的（一个麦肯锡，一个BAIN），一个投行的，一个accountant，两个Industry，偶勉强算entrepreneur吧；嘿嘿，每天和麦肯锡的，BAIN的讨论案例，感觉不错哦。

娱乐，IESE最著名的就是BOW了，每周四晚都会有一个BAR PARTY，NETWORKING的好机会哦。另外，上周刚举行了个BAR CRAWL，基本上全部在校的MBA都参加了，想象一下：整个晚上，街上一群群装扮成警察，医生，护士的IESE MBA在各个BAR乱窜，CRAZY PARTY....其他各种俱乐部活动，小范围聚餐，PARTY就不说了，太多。。。

感觉：累就一个字，天天都困啊。。。

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The Manchester Method -a unique approach to learning


The 'Manchester Method' is an approach to learning, unique to Manchester Business School). It is based on the proven educational principle that the most effective way to learn and remember is through practical application. The 'Manchester Method' includes a wide range of developmental and experiential activities, giving participants the chance to learn through the practical application of the theoretical knowledge they have absorbed.

Manchester Business School also supports the principle that individuals can achieve far more by working co-operatively in groups rather than in isolation. For these reasons, the Manchester Method' is grounded in group project work which mirrors the way in which modern managers work. This comprises three distinct stages:



building the necessary portfolio of knowledge and skills through lectures, tutorials, case studies and mini-projects.


On the full-time MBA programme, this includes an appreciation of national and cultural differences and how these


can impact on effective group work


undertaking internal group projects within a controlled environment. These give the participants the opportunity to


practise project work with maximum support anti minimum risk


group consultancy projects with a client organisation. Under the supervision of a faculty member, groups undertake


a major piece of consultancy work on behalf of Sponsoring organisations. Examples of these consultancy projects are described here by former participants

building the necessary portfolio of knowledge and skills through lectures, tutorials, case studies and mini-projects.


On the full-time MBA programme, this includes an appreciation of national and cultural differences and how these


can impact on effective group work


undertaking internal group projects within a controlled environment. These give the participants the opportunity to


practise project work with maximum support anti minimum risk


group consultancy projects with a client organisation. Under the supervision of a faculty member, groups undertake


a major piece of consultancy work on behalf of Sponsoring organisations. Examples of these consultancy projects are described here by former participants

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The 'Manchester Method' is an approach to learning, unique to Manchester Business School). It is based on the proven educational principle that the most effective way to learn and remember is through practical application. The 'Manchester Method' includes a wide range of developmental and experiential activities, giving participants the chance to learn through the practical application of the theoretical knowledge they have absorbed.

Manchester Business School also supports the principle that individuals can achieve far more by working co-operatively in groups rather than in isolation. For these reasons, the Manchester Method' is grounded in group project work which mirrors the way in which modern managers work. This comprises three distinct stages:


building the necessary portfolio of knowledge and skills through lectures, tutorials, case studies and mini-projects.


On the full-time MBA programme, this includes an appreciation of national and cultural differences and how these


can impact on effective group work


undertaking internal group projects within a controlled environment. These give the participants the opportunity to


practise project work with maximum support anti minimum risk


group consultancy projects with a client organisation. Under the supervision of a faculty member, groups undertake


a major piece of consultancy work on behalf of Sponsoring organisations. Examples of these consultancy projects are described here by former participants