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/ 2 August 2002

Montserrat reaches the heights

We all cheered like mad when Gavin Lee marched in a smart blazer into the City of Manchester stadium during the opening ceremony last week. In front of him was a bearer with a banner displaying the name of his country: Montserrat, the dot in the Leeward Islands that suffered a series of volcanic eruptions […]

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/ 1 August 2002

Gender issues ‘an afterthought’

Cultural diversity is close to the heart of Stella M Nkomo, a professor at Unisa’s Graduate School of Business Leadership, who has studied the role of race and gender in the corporate world. Her recently published book (co-written with fellow American academic Ella Bell), Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity, is based on eight years of research on women who have reached top management positions in the United States.

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/ 1 August 2002

The MBA: Public vs Private?

Regarding an MBA qualification, it would be wrong to create the impression that there is a conflict between private and public institutions. There is, in fact, a healthy academic and professional relationship between most of the private and public providers.