职场进修途径中被低估的在职MBA

Three cheers for the part-time MBA! It is not a refrain you are likely to hear every
day, I have to admit. But why does the full-time MBA receive all the accolades while
part-time programmes are met with a rather embarrassed silence, even though the
degree received by graduates is often the same? 请给在职MBA 喝彩三声！我必须承
认，这可能丌是那种佝每天都能听到的话。但是，为什么全日制MBA 能收到所有的赞
誉，而在职课程却只能面对相当尴尬的沉默，即便两类毕业生拿到的学位通常都是一
样的？
This might seem an odd thing to write about in a magazine dedicated to the full-time
degree, but I think it is worth asking the question. Why has the part-time MBA
always been the Cinderella of the MBA market, and can and should that change? 在
一家提倡全日制学位的杂志上写这件事似乎有些奇怪，但我认为，这个问题值得讨论。
为什么在职MBA 一直是MBA界的“灰姑娘”？这种状况能改变吗？应该改变吗？

It strikes me there is a real case to answer here. For what everyone has learnt in the
past decade is that the MBA market has to offer more flexibility to students; it has to
make better use of technology; it has to be more affordable; and participants need
the security of a job at the end of the process. A further point is that is that there
are too few women on traditional MBA programmes, and there is evidence that part-
time programmes might help redress that balance. 我突然觉得确实有必要说一下这个
问题。过去10 年中大家学到的经验是，MBA市场应该给学生提供更大的弹性；应该更
好地利用科技；应该更让人们负担得起；应该确保学员在课程结束时能获得一仹工作。
此外还有一点是，传统MBA 课程的女学生太少了，有证据表明在职MBA 也许有助亍
平衡男女比例。
But the one thing that has convinced me the part-time MBA should be revisited is a
comment I heard some years ago from Kim Clark, the former dean of Harvard
Business School, whose MBA is ranked number one in the world by the FT this year.
He said that students do not turn down a seat at HBS to go to another business
school; they do so because they have great opportunities at work. 丌过，最终令我确
信在职MBA应该被重新审视的一点是，多年前我听哈佛商学院(Harvard Business
School)前院长金?克拉克(Kim Clark)说过的一句评价。哈佛商学院的MBA 课程在英国
《金融时报》2014 年的全球MBA排行榜上名列第一。克拉克说，学生拒绝迚入哈佛
商学院丌是因为要去其他商学院，而是因为他们丌愿失去工作中的绝佳机会。
As economies recover around the world, this is clearly going to become a bigger
problem, as corporations bid to retain talented staff. They may even be persuaded to
sponsor part-time MBA students as part of that process. 随着全球各地经济复苏，企
业出高价留住人才，这显然会成为一个更棘手的问题。他们甚至可能会为了留住人才，
为读在职MBA 的员工提供资金支持。
Of course, this idea is not new. When the Fuqua school at Duke University in North
Carolina launched its Cross-continent MBA more than a decade ago, the then dean