北京大学光华管理学院 双城记 | 光华-ICS双学位,鱼和熊掌亦可兼得

北京大学光华管理学院
2020-04-09 15:38 浏览量: 3424

The double degree program provided me with a chance to see two different worlds, doubling my learning, knowledge, and connections. To me, double degree program is a perfect example of "The Best of Two Worlds".

- Wilson Chen

双学位项目让我有机会看到两个不同的世界,令我得以开阔眼界、丰富学识和拓展人脉。对我而言,双学位项目是对“鱼和熊掌亦可兼得”的完美阐释。

-陈威宇

陈威宇

北大光华MBA2018级全日制班

Hitotsubashi ICS, international corporate strategy, is the number one MBA program in Japan ranked by QS. The program positions itself as a business school with western teaching methods and Japanese characteristics. It conveys the core values of the school with the quote "The best of two worlds".

This sentence means different to me than to other students in ICS. While Guanghua and ICS are both top business schools, the teaching styles of the two are entirely different. The double degree program provided me with a chance to see two different worlds, doubling my learning, knowledge, and connections. To me, double degree program is a perfect example of "The Best of Two Worlds".

In terms of resources, course breadth, and corporate cooperation, GSM has demonstrated its significant influence as a top business school. As far as courses are concerned, Guanghua provides more technical courses such as quantitative investment and machine learning. Those courses are challenging for other overseas business schools to provide equivalence.

The advantage of ICS lies in substantial and intensive case studies. The ICS way of teaching helps students reinforce their analytical skills and establish their analysis frameworks by practicing a large number of cases. For students who want to enter the consulting industry, the case interview is often a big hurdle. ICS courses are proper training to help student gain advantages when having case interviews.

The two schools have different emphasis on teaching. If one can make good use of the resources from both sides, he/she will find himself/herself a competitive edge when left school and start another journey of the career.

一桥大学国际企业战略研究科(ICS)是QS世界大学排名中日本位列第一的MBA项目。这所商学院采用具有日本特色的西式教学方法。“鱼和熊掌亦可兼得”这句话体现了学院的核心价值。

与ICS的其他学生相比,这句话于我有着不同的意义。虽然光华和ICS都是顶级商学院,但两者的教学风格却完全不同。双学位项目让我有机会看到两个不同的世界,令我得以开阔眼界、丰富学识和拓展人脉。对我而言,双学位项目是对“鱼和熊掌亦可兼得”的完美阐释。

在资源、课程广度和企业合作方面,光华体现了其顶级商学院的重要影响力。就课程而言,光华提供了量化投资和机器学习等更加专业的课程。很少有国外商学院能提供同类课程。

ICS的优势在于可提供内容充实、深入透彻的案例研究。ICS的教学方式旨在通过大量的案例练习,帮助学生增强其分析技巧和建立其分析框架。对于希望进入咨询行业的学生而言,案例面试通常是一个巨大的挑战。ICS课程让学生在这方面有适当训练,帮助其在案例面试中获得优势。

这两所学院有各自不同的教学重点。如果你能够对双方的资源都加以充分利用,那当你离开学校,开启职业生涯时,你将会占据竞争优势。

Janpanese andICScharacteristics

For students who have taken courses taught by Professor Douglas at GSM, if you like the style of case teaching, then the ICS MBA program will be very suitable for you. Take ICS's signature course "JBE: Japanese Business and Economy" as an example. Each class has a case discussion. The most prominent feature of this course is it is entirely "Japan-focused."

Both macroeconomics and corporate strategy are demonstrated with Japanese cases. The course requires students to apply the fundamental theories learned in economics and management to case analysis. Because all the facts are centered on the Japanese government and Japanese companies, it is constructive for international students to integrate into the local context.

The course is divided into two parts, and the selected cases follow a top-down structure to guide students to understand Japan.

From the "The Miracle Years" of the post-war Japanese economy, to "The Lost Two Decades" of the bubble economy, to the modern growth strategy of "Abenomics", and Japan's current national development strategy "Society 5.0." The professor using these case materials as examples to introduce the brief history of Japan's modern economy, helping us familiarize with the pros and cons of various policy tools. Furthermore, by analyzing the outcomes, we can understand the effects of policies in different cycles of economy. The course also invited the current Japanese cabinet member to communicate with the classmates so that students can understand the dilemmas faced by the governor when formulating policies.

The second part is to go deep down to the corporate level. I took the chance to once again learning Porter's five-force analysis to estimate the potential profit of the industry. And think, if, unfortunately, you are in a highly competitive and low-profit sector, what are the possible strategies to help your company avoid competition?

The case of Tokaibane, a Japanese SME, is used to demonstrate how a "focus" strategy can protect itself from competition from large enterprises and maintain high gross profit. And the case of Japanese logistics company Yamato is used to analyze how it differentiates itself and becomes a market leader with over 1.6 trillion yen annual revenue.(For the year ended March 31, 2019)

The course invites the senior management of the case companies to discuss with the students in the class. Digital transformation in recent years is another hot topic that we had talked with many great business leaders.The legacy of experience and business knowledge and the back and forth discussion between younger and older generations were the most exciting part, leaving me with great memories of the course.

对于那些在光华学习过道格拉斯教授的课程的同学而言,如果你喜欢案例教学的风格,那么ICS MBA项目将会非常适合你。例如在ICS的代表性课程“JBE:日本商业和经济”上,每节课都会进行案例讨论。这门课最重要的特点就是它完全“聚焦日本”。

我们通过对日本案例的研究来学习宏观经济学和企业战略知识。这门课要求学生将经济学和管理学中学习的基本理论运用到案例研究中。因为所有事实都以日本政府和企业为中心,国际学生需要结合当地实际情况进行分析。

这门课分为两部分,所选案例均按照自上而下的结构引导学生理解日本。

从战后日本经济的“奇迹年份”到泡沫经济的“迷失二十年”,再到现代“安倍经济学”和日本当前的国家发展战略“社会5.0”,教授通过这些案例材料中的示例,向我们简要介绍了日本经济史,帮助我们熟悉不同政策工具的利弊。此外,通过分析结果,我们也可以理解不同经济周期中的政策所带来的影响。这门课也邀请了日本现任内阁成员与同学们交流,从而令我们了解这位内阁大臣在制定政策时所面临的困境。

第二部分是深入公司层面。我得以重新学习用波特五力分析来预计行业的潜在利润,并思考如果你不幸处于一个竞争激烈但利润较低的行业,可以运用哪些策略来帮助你的公司规避竞争。

日本中小企业Tokaibane的案例证明了“聚焦”战略如何能令其避免与大型企业发生竞争,并维持高毛利润。教授还使用了日本物流公司大和运输的案例,分析其如何脱颖而出,成为年度收入超过16万亿日元的市场领导者(截至2019年3月31日止财年)。

这门课邀请了案例公司的高管与学生们进行课堂交流。近年来的数字化转型是我们与许多知名商界领袖讨论的一个热点话题。经验和商业知识的传承、年轻一代和年长一代的切磋讨论是这门课最激动人心的部分,也是我最美好的回忆。

JBE guest speakers Mr. Katsuhiko Umetsu,

Senior Executive Officer, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.

JBE特邀授课人大和运输控股有限公司高级执行官梅津克彦先生

Stepping out the comfort zone

Raising hands and share my opinions in the case discussion was indeed a great breakthrough for me, as it is not just throwing random ideas on the table, but also means getting objections and challenges from the rest of the class. Despite many times, you will find yourself embarrassed because of missing details or insufficient analysis, but like it or not, it is the best experience you can get out of the MBA case studies. No matter how hard it is for a Asian student to get used to humiliation, I tried my best to be part of the conversation to get an A on the transcript.

In order to catch up with native English-speaking peers, many students are unbelievably hardworking. Some of them spent hours carefully summarized the key points and organized their opinions before every classes. They spoke very actively in the classroom and reviewed their expressions and logical sense from feedbacks. In the course, I saw students who take case analysis seriously have significantly improved their skill in winning debates. This is a fundamental skillset to build an influential leadership.

敢于在案例讨论中举手分享观点是我的一大进步,因为在说出自己灵光乍现的想法后,你有可能遭到班上其他同学的反对和挑战。尽管很多时候你可能会因为自己遗漏了某些细节或分析不够充分而感到尴尬,但无论你是否喜欢,这是你能够从MBA案例研究中收获的最佳体验。虽然亚洲学生难以适应令人尴尬的场合,但我还是尽自己最大的努力,积极参与课堂讨论,并取得了A的成绩。

为了赶上英语为母语的同学,许多学生非常努力。他们中的一些人在每堂课前都会花上几个小时的时间认真总结要点和整理思路。他们在课堂上踊跃发言,并且从反馈中调整自己的表达和逻辑。在这门课上,我发现那些认真对待案例分析的学生的辩论技巧都得到了显著提高。而辩论是建立强大领导力的基础技能。

The guest speaker series

Professor Tom Ito, Executive Director of ICS EMBA Program, is an experienced former investment banker. After graduating with an MBA from Harvard, he worked at Wall Street for five years and returned to Japan as head of investment banking at UBS. Guests speakers were mostly his friends and were invited to give lectures on the EMBA, and a few seats were open for MBA students to attend.

Among them, I was fortunate to participate in the speeches by Mr. Koji Fujiwara, CEO of Mizuho Bank, and Mr. Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Senior Chairman of the ORIX Group. The experience of leading organization through changes during radical times is a great lesson we learned from the prominent leaders.

ICS EMBA项目的常务董事Tom Ito之前是一位经验丰富的投资银行家。从哈佛大学获得MBA学位后,他在华尔街工作了五年,之后回到日本担任瑞银投资银行负责人。大部分特邀授课人都是他的朋友,受他邀请为EMBA学生上课。特邀授课为MBA学生留有少量旁听席位。

我有幸参加了瑞穗银行首席执行官藤原弘治先生和欧力士集团资深主席宫内义彦先生的客座课程。这些重量级的商界领袖分享了他们如何在日新月异的年代领导企业转型升级,给我们上了宝贵的一课。

Employment

Alumni Sharing Panel: Job Searching in Japan

校友分享座谈会:在日本求职

For foreign students, finding a full-time job in Japan is not easy. The main problem is not in the professional knowledge, but in the language. If one cannot use Japanese as a working language, it is very difficult to find employment in the local area. I found my internship in Japan because of having related prior experience and the Python talent, which is relatively scarce in Japan. Therefore, I was lucky enough to find this opportunity without speaking Japanese.

However, during my internship, even it is a coding job, I still have to face language problems. For example, data analysis may require reading Japanese companies’ financial reports to analyze the underlying reasons for the difference between the actual and forecast. Since not every company provides English reports, I find it difficult to finish all the work independently. This made me realized that language is a bar that every foreign student has to pass.

The school is very serious in assisting foreign students to find employment. At the beginning of the school, ICS invited non-Japanese alumni who worked in BCG and Deloitte consulting to share their experience of how to find a job in Japan.

For those of you who are interested in getting in consulting firms in Japan, there’s definitely opportunities. Undoubtedly, your previous work experience and language ability matter, but with right study plan and strategy, it is possible to getting into top consulting firms in Japan. (Surely you have to be the top students. Although GPA doesn’t mean much to Japanese companies, a high GPA at ICS reflects how active and articulate you are.)

对留学生而言,在日本找到一份全职工作并不容易。主要问题不是专业知识,而是语言。如果你无法使用日语作为工作语言,那么在当地找工作将困难重重。我因为之前有相关工作经验,并且掌握了在日本相对稀缺的Python技能,才在不会说日语的情况下幸运地找到了一份实习工作。

然而,尽管这是一份编程工作,我在实习过程中仍然面临着语言问题。例如,在做数据分析时需要阅读日本公司的财报,分析实际数据和预估数据间存在差异的潜在原因。由于并不是每家公司都发布了英文财报,独立完成所有工作非常困难。这让我意识到语言是每个留学生都必须克服的一道关卡。

学院非常认真地帮助留学生找工作。在学期伊始,ICS邀请了在波士顿咨询和德勤咨询工作的非日本籍校友分享他们在日本求职的经验。

如果你希望进入日本咨询公司,机会还是很多的。毋庸置疑,你之前的工作经验和语言能力很重要,但如果制定了正确的学习计划和战略,还是有可能进入日本的顶尖咨询公司。(当然前提是你必须是顶尖学生。虽然日本公司不太看重绩点,但ICS的高绩点可以体现你的活跃和认真程度。)

Finally, I must say that I am very grateful to Peking University ’s double degree program for giving me the opportunity to see different cultures overseas and learn different experiences. I also encourage all my fellow schoolmates to take the opportunity to apply for the double degree program to broaden your perspective and enrich your life experience.

最后,我非常感激北京大学光华管理学院的双学位项目让我有机会感受不同国家的文化,拥有不同的学习体验。同时我也鼓励我的校友们把握机会,申请双学位项目,开阔你的眼界,让你的生命体验更加丰富多彩。

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编辑:陶晓燕

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