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...more and more businesses have shrugged off borders, so too have the institutions that train corporate executives. In a survey of 55 deans of top business schools conducted by Rice University this spring, globalization tied with technology and entrepreneurship as the No. 1 priorities for improvement. Aspiring global execs are also getting trained in other ways, whether through online M.B.A. programs now attracting students across 24 time zones, or at the summer seminars popular among Americans at the highly regarded Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) business school in Fontainebleau, France. INSEAD is collaborating with the Wharton School...
...life somewhere else. Djelic is one of the few who has come back. Though he looks a bit like an overgrown schoolboy in a business suit, he has had a brilliant career in France and the United States. After graduating as a top student from France's élite Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, he collected two M.B.A.s from Harvard and a third from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He then spent several years helping East European countries reform their economies: he advised former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais, among others, and masterminded...