Chief Executive Daniel Vasella has introduced a wide array of first-in-class drugs, including Gleevec, one of the first and most successful targeted cancer drugs.

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Wharton's latest executive class there enrolled 102 students, about double the size of the first cohort.

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However, Dr Donald Peters, chief executive of the WICB, is determined to bring salaries back into the first-class game.

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This September the London Business School will bring its first class of 75 or so students into its own branded Dubai-London executive M.

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"Mick is a first-class coach and is improving year in year out, " said Saints chief executive Tony Colquitt.

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