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US First Lady Nancy Reagan Passes Away At The Of 94

Former First Lady of US, Nancy Reagan passed away at the age of 94 years at her home in Bel-Air, LosAngeles. As per a statement from her office the cause of her death was congestive heart failure. She will be buried beside her husband, former US President Ronald Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley in California.

The president had passed away in June, 2004.Nancy Reagan was a B movie actress who married the President who at the time was the president of the Screen Actors Guild. She married the president in 1952 and was the First Lady of California from 1967-75, when Mr. Reagan was the governor of the state. She then became the First Lady of US from 1981-89.

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How To Be An Effective Manager: 5 Tips From Our Experts

We spoke to some o the topmost managers of MNC’s around the world and most of them suggested that they believe the core concept behind being an effective manager is to have a firm footing on the fundamentals rather that fluff and fancy. While the usual prescription of skills like being an effective speaker to woo a room full of audience counting up to a thousand heads, but the main aspect of operational effectiveness depends upon how well one can execute their fundamentals of management day in and day out.

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An MBA Where Almost Half of the World Participates

If you are interested in the world of MBA programs, the INSEAD is a name which needs no introduction.You should also be aware of the great diversity in terms of culture from where the MBA students came from. The international atmosphere at its Singapore campus follows on the footsteps of the Home campus of INSEAD.

In fact the MBA program offered by the school beats all, with students from no less than 80 countries participating in the program with the number of cohorts totaling close to 1000 per year, a fact that is to be lauded.

Students from Singapore, to cite an example constitute, less that 5% of the total students of last year, the number of which stood at 1,018

According to Professor Ilian Mihov, who happens to be the dean of the Singapore campus, this diversity in the background of students, lets them glide on smoothly in work environments with large cultural differences and as such they are ready to take their position as business leaders of a globalized world.

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INSEAD Tops MBA Global Rankings List

For the first time since its inception in 1999, the INSEAD one-year MBA has topped the rankings of Global MBA programs. The rankings were conducted by the Financial Times. It is noteworthy to mention here that INSEAD has campus presence in Singapore, France and even Abu Dhabi.

In a first ever instance amongst MBA programmes, a business school that has substantial presence in Asia has hit the top spot in Financial Times’s rankings. INSEAD retains the distinction of being the only business school that features on the top of the rankings and delivers its MBA programmes across multiple campuses across continents. Amongst its odd 1,000 students 75% are pursuing their studies in Fontainebleau on the outskirts of Paris and Singapore.

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Channel 4 And Lord Puttnam Launch New Media MBA

The fact that the creative industries together accounted for £84.1 billion of the economy of the United Kingdom got acknowledgement only in very recent times. So, it was only befitting that it was soon followed by the announcement of a new two year executive MBA with the joining of forces by Lord Puttnam who is an film producer with the distinction of winning an MBA and Channel 4 which is mainly geared towards providing upcoming media bosses the business skills that are needed to be able to thrive in the marketplace globally.

However throwing a corporate angle to arts and media industries in Britain has always been somewhat of a contentious issue. The course which is to be stretched over a period of two years covers what is termed as- the five tensions of creative leadership by the organizers and ready up executives for the pressures associate with the job and enable them to balance the factors of failure chances and the necessity to take risks.

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