This broad mandate includes a conferred authority to set a corporate course of action, including time frame, designed to enhance corporate profitability.
A look at some corporate leadership courses on Google gives you a familiar list of descriptive words: "assertiveness", "effectiveness", "strategy".
So the purchasing department has built its own elaborate website, with news articles, employee profiles, a glossary of financial and engineering terms, and information on corporate training courses.
It's teaching the LaunchPad® and the I-Corps for the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, as well as corporate entrepreneurship courses.
There, "I took traditional corporate law courses, but I also worked in the Women's Law Clinic and the Judicial Externship.
Despite that gloom and doom, Credit Suisse First Boston did call the bottom on several technology stocks and rate them strong buys, including DigitalThink, which offers corporate training courses over the Internet.
Besides Turnstone, they are SkilSoft, a provider of corporate training courses; Sequenom, a biotechnology company; Quantum Effect Devices, a semiconductor company; Telaxis Communications, a wireless equipment company; Centra Software, an Internet company; and Alamosa PCS, a cell phone company.
Our international students aren't going to come and study in the UK so that they can take corporate skills courses; they come to be taught by top academics".
You clearly couldn't extrapolate and say all those on corporate finance courses who are international students are gekkos". Dominic Scott, chief executive of the UK Council for International Student Affairs, says universities need to respond to the differences between students.
Instead of Shakespeare or French, there will be (perhaps there already are) college classes in how to trim corporate spending – courses that instruct us to eliminate "frivolous" programs of study that might actually teach students to think.
