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SOM to shorten Olympics summit, citing low interest

Global Business Leadership Program at Beijing games to be cut down to one session

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, April 3, 2008

When the Yale School of Management announced in November that it would organize a summit of business heavyweights in Beijing during the 2008 summer Olympic Games, it hoped to take advantage of the University’s connections in China to host an attention-grabbing executive-education program. But less than five months before the games open, administrators have been forced to pare back their plans.

Although the docket of speakers participating in the program — dubbed the Global Business Leadership Program — has swelled, organizers have shortened the conference’s length in the face of a...

#1 By (Anonymous) 4:15a.m. on April 3, 2008

Yale profiteers while Tibetans will die.

#2 By (Anonymous) 8:34p.m. on April 3, 2008

Maybe your reporter/editors could have employed some critical thinking about why people aren't signing up. Perhaps the $30,000 per couple price tag is a good place to start.

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