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Careers Style

International appeal

For entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, top managers and other professionals, trotting around the globe is all in a day’s work, and the families just have to adapt. Most hubs boast any [...]

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A class of its own

Bilingualism, at the very least, is a given in a world where borders are eroding rapidly and nowhere more than in the French part of Switzerland. This is a boon [...]

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Head start

The perceived rapid pace of technological change, in and of itself more icing than cake, perhaps, tends to conceal the fact that basic values and competencies in management and leadership [...]

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A history of reinvention

Meeting today’s demand for more substance It has been said that, “Education is the ability to meet life’s situations.” (Dr John G. Hibben) And for decades, MBA graduates from top-tier [...]

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Expanding educational opportunities

A new school, a new name – Geneva British School After the success of its A-Level College followed by an equal result with the Geneva Secondary School, ASC International House [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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