Marc Buelens, who teaches in the international MBA program at the Vlerick Management School, in Belgium, now devotes a large part of his leadership course to an extended case study of the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.

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Instead, she was directed to the debt management program of the nonprofit Consumer Credit Counseling Service, part of Money Management International.

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