For example, a professor at the top-ranked Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in the U.S., has found out an important fact for those deciding on the price of a consumer good.

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The FT's number one-ranked EMBA is taught jointly by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology.

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Mr. Mulally was "under terrible financial constraints from Chicago" to cut the price tag of an all-new airplane, says Aaron Gellman, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management who has known Mr. Mulally for decades.

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Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, for example, tops the latest full-time MBA rankings of BusinessWeek and the EIU, and heads the FT's executive education open programs.

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