Cross-Country Capitalism Caravan
Twenty-six Vietnamese senior executives are in the U.S. to experience capitalism in action, thanks to a partnership with the world's oldest graduate school of business. The executives are part of the second annual Vietnam Executive Program started by the Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business and Vietnam National University's Hanoi School of Business.
Tuck partnered with the Hanoi School of Business to develop a top-level executive program that prepares Vietnamese managers for the transition to a market economy. This partnership is the first between a major American business school and a Vietnamese counterpart. The executives are on a cross-country educational program so they can learn U.S. management styles and market-based business skills.
"We see what is happening in Vietnam as part of a very important worldwide movement toward market economics," says Tuck's Dean Paul Danos.
The program participants include senior level executives from both state-owned and private Vietnamese corporations. They arrived in Seattle on August 3 for visits with Microsoft and Boeing, then it's off to Washington, DC on August 6-7, New York on August 8-9, and then to The Tuck School in Hanover, NH. This visit is the first to the United States for most of the executives. I enclosed an outline of their schedule.
During the visit, the executives will meet with representatives from Boeing, Microsoft, AIG, The World Bank, The Federal Reserve, the New York Stock Exchange, the State Department, the Commerce Department and the U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council. They then travel to The Tuck School where the Vietnamese managers will present business plans for new ventures to a group of investors.
Faculty from the Tuck School traveled to Vietnam in March 1997 to teach the executives accounting, business planning, communication, finance, management, and marketing. The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, established in 1900, is the world's oldest graduate school of business.
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Editors: For a schedule, please contact Steve Infanti or Dick Jones of Dick Jones Communications at 814-867-1963. DJC helps The Tuck School with its public affairs work. Or contact Paul A. Argenti, academic director of Tuck's International Executive Development Program. His number is 603-646-2983. Joseph Massey, the program's director and director of Tuck's Center for Asia and the Emerging Economies, is at 603-646-3750. You can also contact Amanda Jones in Tuck's public relations office. Her number is 603-646-2733. The Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College is located in Hanover, NH.
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