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Article Excerpt
Roosevelt Dillard's career has taken him a long way from his hometown of Detroit. A program manager with Corning Inc., maker of specialty glass and ceramics components for high-technology systems, Dillard ran one of the company's engineering groups in Japan for more than three years, and his pasport got a few more stamps when he was tapped to attend an international executive education program that jetted him off to the Czech Republic and India. He is hoping that the program will take his career places at the company, too.
Dillard, who manages a group of 40-plus employees in developing large-size display sheets of glass for use in LCDs, screen monitors, and cell phones, attended the Global Leadership 2020 program offered by Dartmouth College's Amos Tuck School of Business. Executives in the program packed their bags for three modules that took them to Prague, Czech Republic; Hyderabad, India; and Dartmouth's campus in Hanover, New Hampshire.
"It broadened my perspective and made me more appreciative and accepting of the way others do business, not just from a business sense but also from a respect for different cultures. Applying that [appreciation] in my day-to-day responsibilities has given me a whole other set...
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