For example, the UK's Cranfield Business School has recently begun running a specialist MBA for senior military officers in association with the British military's own leadership college.

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David Parker, of Cranfield Business School, argues that bits of government are always hard to value, since they tend not to resemble any companies operating in the market.

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Cranfield School of Management in Britain has gone a step further, becoming the first business school to incorporate a popular online business-strategy game into its MBA programme.

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