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Anne Coyle

Director of Admissions

Cornell University

Johnson Graduate School

of Management

Malott Hall

Ithaca, New York 14853

U.S.A

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At the Johnson Graduate School of Management, we believe that management is an integrative process not defined by rigid functional areas or bound by norms of past behavior. In the coming decades, business leaders must be able to deal creatively with a diverse workforce, a global marketplace, and a business environment characterized by rapid change. With those challenges in mind, the Johnson School prepares men and women with the skills, knowledge, and strategic perspective essential to the leadership of business and industry in American and around the world.-- The Johnson School MBA Program ---

　

康乃爾的經濟學者們不斷地宣稱與強調：這裡是常春籐（ivy league）、不是象牙塔（ivory tower）。長久以來人們認為綺色佳（Ithaca）是個漂亮的大學城，附近的湖光山色足以使人樂不思蜀，因此聯想到（誤認為？）Johnson School中的師生必定是一群活在象牙塔裡的人！這不是事實。事實是這裡的師生除了勇於創新、愛接受挑戰外，還比別人更懂得生活。

一九九○年夏天，Conway 教授帶著十三名學生，分乘兩輛旅行車，在紐約州北方大湖區的工廠中穿梭，學生親眼目睹拼裝一輛福特只要花一天的時間，送出工廠到海關外銷也只要一天，但事前的全程規劃和營運卻要花上整整三星期！Conway 教授對學生說：『這樣的營運太沒有效率了！要如何增加營運上的效率，就要靠你們啦！』
當然，不是所有的教授和學生們都利用假期到各大企業串門子，更多的人在攀岩、在飛滑翔翼、或獨自在森林中露營。一九九○年一位畢業生說：『我在綺色佳的最後一天是和兩位我最心儀的教授打高爾夫！』在一班只有兩百多名學生的 Johnson School，要培養出這樣的師生、同儕情誼似乎是順理成章的事。此校一年一度的盛會是在天寒地凍的時候，由MBA女生所組成的冰上曲棍球隊挑戰教師聯隊（在美國，冰上曲棍球的別名是團體拳擊賽，說明這這是一個多麼野性和暴力的運動！）

Johnson School的教授品質和富彈性的課程最受校友稱道。他在校園中廣結善緣，至少與工學院和亞洲研究中心合開了數個雙主修的課程，例如，具工學士背景的學生可註冊在製造工程與生產（Manufacturing Engineering & Productivity ）的課程中，不但可在工學院選修，而且只要兩年就畢業。假若你入學前已經獲得一個理工方面的碩士學位，那麼只要一年就可以再取得一個MBA。

若是你想畢業後加入跨國公司服務，或是想到亞洲發展，則可註冊在亞洲研究和管理（Asian Studies & Management）的課程裡，你會學到一口流利的日語，以及全套實用的日本企業文化。全部課程要花三年，其間你必須在日本跨國大企業中實習，包括：Industrial Bank of Japan，Nippon Telegraph & Telephone，以及 Mitsubishi's Chemical Unit。當然，你也可以選擇在日本的美國企業分公司做實習，例如：Corning Glass 在日本的分廠。

想學好日文？這裡是世界上除了日本本土以外最理想的地方。 Jim Latimer 從喬治亞理工學院畢業後在辛辛那提的機器人製造廠 Milacron工作了數年，然後進了康乃爾的亞洲研究與管理課程。在這之前，Jim是個澈頭澈尾的美國大男孩，一句日文都不懂。畢業後 Jim 立刻被 Corning Glass 的日本分公司延攬，目前他在日本過著日本企業人的生活，他的日語說得像日本土著一樣溜！除了工學院和亞洲研究所，Johnson School 也和康乃爾其他的學院關係密切 ，包括法學院及農學院。

第一年的學生必須修八門必修，這些必修課涵蓋：財務會計、統計、行銷、組織行為、資訊系統管理、總體及個體經濟、營運管理、策略 .... 等。第二年開始計劃自己的選修。和其他的top B-School一樣，Johnson School不要求學生一定要選擇一個特定的主修領域，學生除了可在本院中自由選修，還可跨到他院選課。此校的國際網路不弱，除了和日本的親密關係，和倫敦、比利時、法國、瑞士、挪威都有交換學生的網路。

沿襲常春藤名校的傳統，Johnson School的學術地位一向居高臨下。拜地處偏遠小鎮之賜，教授們除了研究，就是教學。學生在課內與課外都能和教授說古道今，這裡的教授們不作興設office hour，只要學生有問題，大多隨時奉陪！因此，Johnson School的教學在全國B-School中也首屈一指。Johnson的課程中以財務（finance）最強。旅館與餐飲管理（hotel & restaurant management）也極負好評。

和大部份 B-Schools 的學生一樣，這裡的學生也抱怨學校的就業輔導室過份重視華爾街財務金融市場，忽略了其他領域的就業機會。不過許多來自紐約市的大會計師、大財務分析師，在綺色佳（Ithaca）充電兩年後，再回到萬丈紅塵的紐約，確實真心地感激與懷念這兩年閉關靜養，享受湖光山色的日子。

一九九四年親臨綺色佳（Ithaca）的大企業不少，大部份來自財務金融與管理顧問界。因此畢業生投入最多的行業，也仍然是這兩個領域。

校友感言

The Johnson School is second to none in finance and is an excellent place to study manage- ment in general. You get a base of knowledge that you can apply to the real world and can use throughout your career. That's the most you can ask of any good business school. The fact that the school is small ensures that you'll get individual treatment and access to the faculty members whose ideas interest you. There's a large selection of quality courses to chose from at Cornell and the program gives you a lot of flexibility, so you can customize your MBA degree and take advantage of a specific area, like I did in finance.

For anyone interested in human resources and business, there's no better education than Cornell's joint degree program at the Johnson School and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. The combined resources of the two schools are outstanding, and the fact that they are next door to one another is a real asset. Companies today want human-resource professionals who can speak to managers and employees about business issues. When you start your job search, having both an MILR and an MBA degree from Cornell makes you very marketable. Schooling in human resources is essential. An MBA degree is an added value.

The Johnson School not only offers an excellent international business curriculum but goes a step farther by incorporating inter- national issues in courses throughout the program. The multicultural environment of the school -- getting to study and socialize with students from many countries -- exposed me to an array of views and experiences that has broadened my range of choices when I have had to solve problems in the workplace in Japan. The fact that Johnson School alumni are active throughout the world, including the Pacific Rim, has provided me with a valuable source of information, support, and friendship.

I came to Cornell with a master's degree in manufacturing systems and engineering. That gave me an excellent back- ground for the management of product design and development. The next step was to move to strategic planning with a worldwide outlook. The fact that more companies are becoming multinational has made my MBA, MA in Asian Studies, and engineering background a marketable combination. The MBA degree has given me the exposure and credibility needed in the business world. The MA in Asian Studies has given me an extra edge that interests multi -national organizations.