Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University's business school, located a few miles north of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, frequently ranks among America's top ten business schools.

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While the business schools at Harvard, Columbia, Wharton and Duke offer full alumni status to advanced management program participants, schools such as Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and Dartmouth's Tuck School grant only partial alumni status.

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Spulber, a professor of international business at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

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Together with Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg Graduate Business School at Northwestern University, and several other academics, Mr Morris studied mock negotiations that used only e-mail and compared them with ones preceded by a brief getting-to-know-you telephone call.

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