"We looked around Asia and saw that China had the greatest need for management training, " says Rui Shujie, account manager at the Center for Business Skills Development, which began operating in Shanghai two years ago in affiliation with Arizona's Thunderbird school of international management.

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Adriano Pires, director of the Brazilian Center for Infrastructure, a Rio de Janeiro based business management consultancy, said Brasilia should think twice about using Petrobras as a policy tool to fight inflation, among other things.

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A. career management center at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School, for the past two years has trained admissions officers to look for the same traits a hiring manager might, such as the ability to assess a problem and self-edit their remarks.

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Mr. DAVID COLE (Center for Automotive Research): It really does represent a fundamental new business model of labor management relations, and I think it recognizes perhaps the most important element of job security is a profitable company over the long term.

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