ABSTRACT
The French Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE) held a symposium (November 1998) charged with examining retrospectively the management education program in North America that the foundation had launched for French students three decades earlier. Believing then that America was the Mecca of management education, FNEGE had sent, between 1969 and 1975, hundreds of fledgling French management instructors to North American business schools to learn about management science. Whilst the FNEGE retrospective focused mostly on the experiences of French participants in this program, there was room, within its province, for reflection about another side of the story: to wit, did the education that the French students had received in American business schools actually prepare them managerially for the future?
