Cash flow return on investment, he maintains, is a much more useful measure of performance.His executive students seem to be cut from the same cloth.
"We hope our executive students can strive for enlightened lives — it may not be attainable, but it should be strived for," Mr. Xiang said.
He encouraged them to research problems brought in by the executive students, each bringing his or her own discipline to bear on the problem.
Young executives, students and even artists are paying $2,000 a month for luxury housing: a cubicle-size apartment with low ceilings in buildings as devoid of character as a milk crate.
And within nine months, the new party, the Movement for Democratic Change, had united black union activists and white corporate executives, students and workers into a formidable movement that shook the political establishment.
It had attracted a broad spectrum of support from black labor union activists, white corporate executives, students and workers with promises to improve the economy, race relations and prospects for the young -- a message that appealed to a nation experiencing an economic crisis, a generation shift and an increasing sense of alienation among whites.
Attorneys, executives, students and even journalists often prefer a pad and paper to a keyboard when jotting down notes from meetings, filling out forms or drafting documents.
Doers and doings in business, entertainment and technology: President George W. Bush convened a Tuesday economic forum in Waco, Tex., gathering some 250 officials, union members, small investors, executives, students and scholars to talk about job creation, corporate responsibility, trade and health care.
Public officials, policy experts, investors, industry executives, students and eager citizens will gather to listen to and discuss America's most pressing and compelling energy and climate issues with panels of experts and innovators, teed up by President Obama himself.
Ms. Bevelander of the Rotterdam School of Management is organizing another Kilimanjaro trip for female executive M.B.A. students.
Most executive M.B.A. students have jobs — average work experience is 13 years; management experience 8.5.
