"You have to make the most of every second, " says Fernando Martinez Arribas, who recently graduated from IESE Business School's global executive program.

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Duke offers a global executive program where students attend classes every three months for two weeks in Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America.

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Professor Preston Bottger teaches in the Program for Executive Development and the Leading the Global Enterprise and Orchestrating Winning Performance programs at IMD business school.

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Mr. Kozek says Stanford's executive program helped him learn tactics for dealing with the global responsibilities he anticipated picking up.

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The event was part of the Global Business Strategy: China program that was sponsored jointly by Columbia Business School Executive Education and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

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