He holds a MBA from the University of South Australia and is chairman of Shanghai Shimao, a 64% owned real estate subsidiary of Shimao Property.

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Moore received her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of South Carolina, and later an MBA from George Washington University.

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In the recent Financial Times ranking of the top 100 full-time MBA schools, the Northeast had 13 schools, as did the South.

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At the Denver training, South Dakota rancher Troy Hadrick one of the first MBA graduates told students about one of his recent triumphs.

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Thrilled about the prospects of becoming a trader, he joined Glencore in South Africa in 1983 as a coal trader after earning an MBA at the University of Southern California.

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His early publishing agreements and tour arrangements were not the sophisticated financial deals made by someone with a Harvard MBA, but with an A-level in art from a tech college in South London.

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