In the last five years the number of Japanese universities with business schools has more than doubled, to 55. Although Japanese companies still are sceptical about the MBA.

While Korean multinationals like Samsung Electronics or Hyundai Motors have been expanding worldwide for years, Korean business schools focused too much on national issues and Korean perspectives. Now top universities in the country are undertaking a drastic makeover, by re-modeling themselves largely on leading business schools in the U.S, reports „Business Week”.

The inaugural class of the “EMBA-Global Asia” beginning of May marks the Asian expansion of EMBA-Global - the top-ranked executive MBA partnership programme offered by Columbia Business School and London Business School. The new course became possible when the New York and London faculties embraced Hong Kong University’s Business School as their Asian partner.