According to the IMD business school's international measures of competitiveness, Australia lags in many areas of efficiency and productivity, even after business-friendly Howard's long reign.

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Before coming back to Boston College (I am a proud alum), I spent over ten years at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland simply the best executive education institute in the world leading executive education programs and founding their global Executive MBA program.

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S. Speaking of efficiency, in the previous post I referred to the international competitiveness rankings produced by the Swiss IMD World Competitiveness Center.

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