Rebecca Plante, a sociologist at Ithaca College, has been part of a team conducting a multi-campus interview study about sexuality.

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In tandem came some of the world's finest research institutes, many of them part of the public-sector and multi-campus University of California.

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Participant schools include usual suspects such as the multi-campus INSEAD and National University of Singapore's NUS Business School, both of which already have partnerships with other elite business schools.

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