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Danny Mok

Why would an up-and-coming executive pay a HK$200,000 premium over the price of the world's best Master Of Business Administration course to join a new international MBA programme?
The prospect of a face-to-face session with legendary investor Warren Buffett might be an incentive.
This is one of the  draws offered by the EMBA Global Asia course to be launched next May by business schools in  New York, London and Hong Kong - or Nylonkong in urban jargon.
The partnership programme -  run by  University of Hong Kong, New York's Columbia Business School and London Business School - is dubbed  the first programme to offer learning and networking opportunities in the three cities, as well as  Shanghai through HKU's  campus.
Anne  Sandford,  an MBA programme director  at London Business School, said they planned to invite prominent alumni of the three schools  for face-to-face sharing sessions  on their success stories.
The initial list includes Mr Buffett, an alumnus of Columbia Business School; HSBC deputy chairman and chief executive Dyfrig John, a London Business School graduate; and Nobel Prize for economics laureate Joseph  Stiglitz, a Columbia faculty member.
The MBA,  aimed at Asia-based executives, will cost US$120,000 -  about HK$200,000 more than the tuition fees for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School's executive MBA course, run  with the Kellogg School of Management in the US, which was ranked the best of its type in the world by the Financial Times in October.
The new course, to start in May, is expected to have 50 students.



Pricey MBA offers chance to meet Buffett