今年，复旦大学管理学院与BI挪威商学院合作MBA项目已走过整整十五年的荣耀历程。首先，我要向推动项目成长的两校领导以及全体教授们和管理团队、向项目十五年来培养的1700余名校友和学生、以及向国内外关心和支持复旦大学管理学院的朋友们表达我衷心的祝贺和感谢。

　　作为中国最早开设商学教育的领先院校，复旦大学管理学院始终将国际化作为面向未来发展的重要战略选择。其中，与国外优秀商学院开展合作、吸纳世界一流的成功经验，就是贯彻这一思路的具体体现。自1996开办以来，复旦-BI（挪威）MBA项目整合两校优质师资，在教材和教学理念等方面实现了与国际一流商学院的接轨。同时，注重与商业实践和本土实情的融合，帮助来自不同国家和地区的学生培养战略思维能力，应对不断变化、高速发展的市场环境。

　　十五年的传承与创新，复旦-BI（挪威）MBA项目已经发展成为最成功的国际合作工商管理教育项目之一。复旦大学管理学院上下将继续实施国际化战略，践行培养高素质管理人才的社会使命。我坚信，在可期待的未来，复旦大学的工商管理教育定会在合作与竞争中不断超越同侪，复旦学子也定将在国际舞台中央创造新的辉煌！

陆雄文教授
复旦大学管理学院院长
2011年5月

It is 15 years since we started our educational activities in China. By now around 1 700 persons, mainly Chinese executives, have graduated from the MBA programme we teach in cooperation with School of Management at Fudan University in Shanghai! Now the cooperation is being developed further. 
It is important for us to have succeeded in China. BI wants to be the leading educational partner for business and industry in Norway, and in that context our presence in China is important. 
We are proud of what we have accomplished in cooperation with our Chinese partners. Not everyone has experienced success. In 2009 Business Week printed an article with the title “Why Western Business Schools are pulling out”. The title reflects the fact that many American schools, and even some of the best, gave up their efforts in China. They were never really able to understand the way the Chinese run their universities. 
Our experience indicates that patience and respect are the most important keywords – patience to allow a tangible cooperation project to develop in a way that creates mutual trust and respect. 
A brief historical outline: In 1995, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the then Prime Minister of Norway, visited China and participated in the opening of the Nordic Centre at Fudan University in Shanghai. About 20 universities from the Nordic Countries, and among them BI, jointly participated in establishing the Nordic Centre. 
The following year we started to teach. In cooperation with Fudan University School of Management we established our first limited management course, which quickly developed into a full MBA programme. Currently, we are extending our cooperation with Fudan University to include cooperation on research, and a separate research centre is under development.
I would like to express my warmest congratulations to everyone involved in the BI-Fudan cooperation. I believe that the cooperation will prosper also in the future. Happy 15 years anniversary!

Professor Tom Colbjornsen
President
BI Norwegian Business School
May 2011

Today, the growing importance and influence of China is evident to everyone.  While Norway’s challenge on the international scene is to make ourselves visible in strong competition with much larger countries, China is in a position to choose partners from the top shelf.

In a number of areas, however, China and Norway have common interests. This certainly applies for international cooperation within research and education, where new Sino-Norwegian initiatives are introduced on a regular basis. When it comes to the sharing of knowledge and ideas, quality is obviously more important than size!

This explains the extensive relations between Chinese and Norwegian researchers in such diverse fields as climate, environment, renewable energy and polar research. I am also pleased to notice that higher education co-operation is a growing field of interest. 

The fifteen years of collaboration between Fudan University’s School of Management and the Norwegian Business School (BI) clearly illustrate that research and higher education cooperation can be of mutual benefit to both countries.

Aristotle said about friendship: “Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” I believe this to be a fair statement also when it comes to cooperation – and particularly when it comes to international cooperation.

The bonds between the Fudan School of Management and the Norwegian Business School have already harvested a lot of ripened fruits. I congratulate both institutions on their fifteenth anniversary of collaboration – and hope you will enjoy even more seeding and harvesting, through strengthening of the existing relations and through new partnerships, in the years to come.

Tora Aasland
Minister of Research and Higher Education
Norway

My warmest congratulations to BI Norwegian Business School and Fudan University School of Management on their 15 years of fruitful cooperation.

Since 1996, BI has been pioneering Norwegian academic cooperation with China through their programmes at Fudan University. Among others, BI has developed a highly esteemed Master of Business Administration (MBA), educating more than 1700 highly qualified business executives from China and abroad. BI is also an important contributor in building interest and knowledge about China in Norway, in particular among young students.

I wish BI and Fudan School of Management the best of luck for this important anniversary, and trust that the future will bring even broader cooperation to the benefit of Sino-Norwegian relations!

Yours sincerely,

Svein O. Sæther
Ambassador of Norway