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Careers Style

Equipping yourself for the war on talent

Global management provides the knowledge, skills and flair to fight the challenges of globalization
A few years ago a museum in Geneva was about to embark on an exhibition of an [...]

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Hotels: serving our well-being

“My bill please”
Sitting in a stranger’s tent sipping freshly brewed mint tea amongst cactus groves in the vast silence and brooding solitude of the desert is the saga of Bedouin [...]

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Managing human capital

Putting business schools back in touch with reality
“It is not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is most adaptable to [...]

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A rendezvous for science

Switzerland’s domestication, breeding and cultivation of scientific ideas
It might be slightly off the standard tourist trail but there is a lesser acknowledged hallmark of Switzerland – namely, Swiss universities and [...]

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Opening the doors to foreign workers

Who has an edge in the Swiss job market?
Even in a time of crisis, the Swiss have not lost their time-honoured reputation for accom-modating their job-seekers. According to data compiled [...]

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Introducing self-leadership

University of Geneva – Executive MBA
Created in 1559 at the initiative of Jean Calvin, University of Geneva celebrates its 450th Anniversary this year. Originally designed as a theological and humanist [...]

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A new model for management education

Business schools need to rethink many concepts they hold dear –including academic departments, tenure and the full-time MBA
Several prominent voices have criticized business schools and the traditional full-time MBA. They [...]

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Executive education for working professionals

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Keeping abreast of information in a rapidly changing world can be a challenge for may professionals. Swiss Style spoke with Jasmine Champenois of the [...]

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The Hotel School of Geneva

Preparing students to enter into professional life
Since 1996, Ecole Hôtelière de Genève has been recognized as an Ecole Supérieure by the cantonal governments and the Swiss Confederation as an institution [...]

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