ABSTRACT MBAs are trained to manage the edges of neoliberal capitalism. Contemporary MBA programmes in the United States cultivate the ideal of an entrepreneurial manager by staging the convergence of two boundaries of neoliberalism. One has to do with the unmanageable and uneconomic (and unavoidable) excess of the social. This is nowhere more apparent than in business schools’ rediscovery of international spaces of capitalism. Over the past two decades, US MBA curricula have been engaged in a re-enchantment of the world as a patchwork of spaces marked by enduring, risky and potentially valuable cultural differences, in contrast to the anticipation of their more efficient incorporation as dispersed sites of a flat world under earlier scenarios of global neoliberalism. A second boundary has to do with the holistic ideal of the manager, whose success rests upon complementing the always-incomplete technocratic expertise in functional business skills with a supplement of talent, instinct and creative insight. Business schools produce the agents of neoliberal capitalism from an explicit reckoning of the limits of such claims about the world and its subjects. This essay focuses on the ways MBA curricula frame international business contexts as calling forward the fullest expression of technical and talented MBA leadership.

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想象难以管理的事物：新自由主义极限下的MBA

摘要 MBA 受过管理新自由资本主义边缘的培训。美国当代 MBA 课程通过将新自由主义的两个边界融合在一起，培养了创业经理的理想。一是与无法管理和不经济（和不可避免）的社会过剩有关。这一点在商学院重新发现资本主义的国际空间中最为明显。在过去的 20 年里，美国 MBA 课程一直在重新吸引世界，将其作为以持久、冒险和潜在有价值的文化差异为标志的空间拼凑而成，与预期将它们更有效地整合为分散的地点形成鲜明对比。在全球新自由主义早期情景下的平坦世界。第二个边界与经理的整体理想有关，他的成功取决于在功能性商业技能方面对始终不完整的技术专家型专业知识进行补充，并补充人才、本能和创造性洞察力。商学院通过对这种关于世界及其主体的主张的局限性进行明确计算，从而培养出新自由主义资本主义的代理人。本文重点介绍 MBA 课程如何构建国际商业环境，以呼吁对技术和才华横溢的 MBA 领导力进行最充分的表达。