Stanford's director of executive education program development, Sean Bendarkar, says the school offers a three-week general management program in Singapore which is proving very popular.

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For example, on February 2 Israel joined the Executive Board of the UN Development Program and will join the board of UNICEF in 2013.

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Professor Preston Bottger teaches in the Program for Executive Development and the Leading the Global Enterprise and Orchestrating Winning Performance programs at IMD business school.

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