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BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 10 /Standard Newswire/ -- Global Focus provides in-depth updates on the international management development community and features topical reports and insight from leading experts in the field.

Highlights from the latest issue include:

       - No Cambridge blues

Arnoud De Meyer, Director of Judge Business School in Britain, explains to George Bickerstaffe that the school's close integration with the University of Cambridge could be a model for business schools in the future.

       - Diversity as an engine of growth

Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, sets out how Europe is learning to profit from its diversity.

       - The road ahead for European management education

Eric Cornuel, Director General and CEO of EFMD, concludes a two-part series on management education in Europe with some thoughts on how the sector might be restructured and revitalized.

       - Because the world is round it turns on strategy

The world economy is not truly integrated and is unlikely to be so for decades, if ever. Pankaj Ghemawat, arch-proponent of "semiglobalisation" as the real challenge for international corporate strategy, talks to George Bickerstaffe.

       - Quality improvement in corporate learning organizations

Martine Plompen on a new report that emphasizes the gains offered by the EFMD CLIP accreditation process for companies' learning organizations.

       - Doing business with the poor

Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General and Director, Partnership Bureau, at the UNDP, shows how by engaging the poor as clients, customers and producers, the private sector can succeed in the simultaneous pursuit of wealth creation and social impact.

       - What does it take to be a business school dean?

Nearly a quarter of British business schools have changed or are changing their deans. Julie Davies, Head of Research and Development at the Association of Business Schools, reports on ABS research that shows what deans themselves think is needed for the job.

All of these articles are available for download from www.efmd.org/globalfocus.  

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