清华MBA助我打开通往中国金融之门！

戴熙路于2019年完成了清华-MIT全球MBA项目课程

午夜后的CBD很难找到出租车，司机师傅们只接西向的乘客，往东去只能走走停停碰运气。

当年，戴熙路在Magic Circle律师事务所就职，主要从事港股的首次公开募股，在以时间计费的高压环境，经常一天工作16个小时。甲方迟迟不交材料，关联交易的尽职调查只能无限期推延。

律所是流水线业务，管理层和并购组谈妥后，律师去执行上市流程，虽然能与摩根大通这样的承销商合作，但兴奋中总是夹带着疲倦。

“职业满足感可能要去业务前端寻求，”他说。

戴熙路决定往上游走，前往有决策权的业务端。他选择的行业是中国蓬勃发展的金融业——中国金融在未来十年将增长26％，中国也是全球最大的金融科技投资者之一。

对他来说，读MBA是迈出的第一步，给自己一个交代，同时也给未来的雇主吃颗定心丸。曾经的法律人决意转行了，他选择了清华大学经济管理学院的清华-MIT全球MBA项目。

“清华是通往中国的大门，”戴熙路说。“大学与政府有紧密的联系，很多时候，象牙塔内的讨论与研究对政策方向有积极的作用。”

“中国金融市场发展迅速，监管机构和智库的重要性十分明显，在北京就读会有优势，”他继续说道。

在清华大学，戴熙路可以零距离接触中国金融业。

他回忆说：“你早晨可以听国家外汇管理局（SAFE）的领导讲贸易战中的政策，晚上听张勇（阿里巴巴首席执行官）谈阿里巴巴摸石过河的经验。”

“财经媒体的报道总会有他们的出发点和偏颇，但在这里，你可以深入了解中国经济的本质。”

有一门课甚至由中国国际金融有限公司前首席执行官朱云来亲自授课，而朱云来曾在《财富》评出的亚洲商界领袖25强中名列第15位。

更重要的是，清华MBA课程紧跟全球步伐。

2019年美联储加息，华尔街仍偏鸽派，加息备受争议，市场上各种猜测层出不穷。联邦公开市场委员会委员罗伯特·卡普兰正在这时来访清华。

“在当时的语境下，卡普兰先生非常谨慎，可以说是惜字如金，采访他的时候，他认为‘委员会投票仅代表成员当天的观点’。”戴熙路回忆说。几天后，美联储冻结了加息。

清华MBA在读期间的几个公司实习，最终成就了一份工作。碰巧，戴熙路在实习的过程中再次与摩根大通合作，负责分析中国正在崛起的科技独角兽。在业务前端，他可以做出判断并评估未来的增长潜力。

通过清华经管学院职业发展中心，他获得了中国领先的资产管理公司——嘉实基金的实习机会。拿到MBA学位后，他选择正式入职。

今天，戴熙路作为五人团队的一员，与全球的机构投资者——大型主权基金、央行和养老金开展合作。团队中的每个成员都有海外学习和工作的经验。

戴熙路说，通过清华MBA不仅可以获得专业知识，更可以借助学校的平台走入新的行业。MBA毕业生可以接触到囊括学校190,000名校友的强大校友群体，以及MIT斯隆管理学院的校友网络。

“今天，在我工作的中国头部的资管公司，各部门的许多同事都是清华校友。”戴熙路说。

“尽管这是老生常谈，但不得不说，中国是未来所在。这里不适合循规蹈矩的人，但是希望寻求挑战和拥有上升潜力的人一定要考虑中国。”

It’s hard finding a taxi in Beijing’s Central Business District after midnight. 

Jeremy Tai often worked 16-hour days for a Magic Circle law firm in China. He focused on IPOs (Initial Public Offerings), helping Hong Kong-based private companies go public.

After the business and finance guys hashed out the details, his role was to come in and execute the deals they’d made. Working with underwriters like JP Morgan was exciting, but he was left wanting more.

There was a question in the back of his mind, gently reminding him that something wasn’t right. 

“I realized that professional satisfaction might be found on the more proactive side of business,” he says.

Jeremy decided to move upstream to where the decisions were made. He targeted a career in China’s booming financial sector—finance in China is set to grow by 26% in the next decade, and China is also one of the world’s largest investors in fintech.

To change industries, he says doing an MBA served as a signal, both to himself and prospective employers, that he was serious about making the switch. He chose the Tsinghua-MIT Global MBA Program at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM), located at the heart of China’s finance industry in Beijing.

“Tsinghua is your gateway to China,” says Jeremy. “The university works very closely with the Chinese government; in many cases they work hand-in-hand discussing which way policy should go.

“In a field like finance, where the market is developing rapidly, that proximity to regulators and think-tanks in Beijing is important,” he continues.

At Tsinghua, Jeremy gained first-hand exposure to China’s financial industry.

“One day you would have the head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) giving a talk, and the next would bring Alibaba CEO Zhang Yong,” he recalls. “You could really get past the echo chamber of financial news and get down to the nuts and bolts of the Chinese economy.”

One class was even taught by Zhu Yunlai, the former CEO of investment banking firm China International Investment Corporation, a businessman Fortune once ranked 15th in a list of the 25 most influential Asian business leaders.

More importantly, the MBA kept pace with global developments. 

2019 saw the Federal Reserve hike interest rates, while Wall Street still had a dovish outlook. With speculation rife despite indications of further hikes, Federal Open Market Committee member Robert Kaplan lectured at Tsinghua.

“Mr. Kaplan was very terse when he said that ‘committee voting only represents member views on that day’,” recalls Jeremy. A few days later, the Federal Reserve froze interest rate hikes.

The road to a job is paved with internships.

Coincidentally, Jeremy found himself working with JP Morgan again, analyzing China’s rising tech ventures. Now on the front end, he could make judgment calls, assessing future potential for growth.

He got his final internship through Tsinghua SEM’s careers center, working for Harvest Fund Management, one of China’s leading asset management companies. After his MBA, he was offered a full-time role.

Today, Jeremy is part of a team of five working with international institutional investors—large pension funds, sovereign funds, and monetary authorities across Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Everyone in his team has international experience. 

Doing an MBA, Jeremy says, not only provides the knowledge you need but also the network to support your career switch. MBA graduates from Tsinghua also have access to the university’s 190,000 strong alumni community, as well as links to alumni networks at MIT Sloan.

“Today, I work for one of China’s top three asset management funds and many of my colleagues and senior managers are Tsinghua alumni,” Jeremy says.

“It’s cliché to say it, but China is the future. While it isn’t for the faint of heart, those looking for a challenge and upside potential should definitely consider it.”

Written by Marco De Novellis

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