Professor Nachum is expert on issues related to globalization and international business, with more than two decades experience teaching, researching and consulting on these issues to firms and government agencies, including the United Nations, World Bank, and the European Union.

FORBES: Why Finance Professionals Need International Business Strategy

For starters, the two-year degree is housed at the Fletcher School, which specializes in international affairs, not business. (Tufts doesn't have a business school.) All students have previous international experience and they are required to demonstrate proficiency in a second language.

WSJ: Teaching Global Business

His experience of it is limited to spending a year working for Business International, a consultancy firm subsequently bought by The Economist Group.

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