彭博社：安利利用哈佛大学成就与中国的关系(16)

　　被批评的计划

　　中国人民大学公共政策教授毛寿龙认为，哈佛计划使用安利的资助是不合适的。“当然，这影响了安利在中国的地位，他们让各省省长和部门负责人每年前往他们的总部。”他说，“政府官员不应该由安利公司资助去美国旅行或访问全美各地的地点，尤其其中一站是该公司的总部”。

　　鲍尔弗说，“安利公司没有说明哪类的官员被选择参加该计划”。“我不认为我们的成功是依赖于此程序的任何方式，”他说，“所有教育的计划只是帮助一般的商业目的”。

　　根据肯尼迪学院的纪录，财团对肯尼迪学院的支持并不是闻所未闻。从2000年6月到7月产生1,049个赞助奖，39个来自营利性公司，比如安利。

　　肯尼迪学院在90年代后期开始关注亚洲，并且雇佣了Anthony Saich，他曾在北京运营美国福特基金会长达5年时间。1998年，哈佛开始通过由新世界发展公司设在香港的房地产公司资助每年约20名中国官员进行培训。卢迈先生---一名中国国务院政策调研员，他曾在上世纪90年代参加了肯尼迪学院的学习，并期望Anthony Saich提出更为雄心勃勃的计划来培训地方官员。

　　Program Criticized

　　Mao Shoulong, a professor of public policy at Renmin University in Beijing, argues that Amway’s funding of the Harvard program is inappropriate.

　　“Of course this influences Amway’s position in China; they’ve got provincial governors and department heads visiting their headquarters each year,” he says. “Government officials shouldn’t be taking money from a company to travel to the U.S. or visit sites around the country, especially when one of those stops includes the company’s headquarters.”

　　Balfour says the company doesn’t have any say in which officials are chosen to attend the program.

　　“I don’t think our success is in any way dependent on this program,” he says. “Any educational program just helps the business environment generally.”

　　Corporate backing isn’t unheard of at the Kennedy School. Out of 1,049 sponsored awards from July 2000 through June, 39 were from for-profit companies such as Amway, according to school records.

　　The school began a push to focus more on Asia in the late 1990s and hired Anthony Saich, who had run the Ford Foundation in Beijing for five years, to make it happen. In 1998, the school began training about 20 Chinese officials a year through a fellowship funded by New World Development Co. (17), a Hong Kong-based real estate company. Lu Mai, a policy researcher for China’s State Council who had attended the Kennedy School in the 1990s, sought Saich out to propose a more ambitious initiative to train local officials.