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An American MBA student takes a year off to work as chief consultant to Moscow's fledgling commodities exchange; U.S. business students and faculty advise governments and companies in Eastern Europe on strategies for privatization; a group of Wharton management and finance professors teach Chinese executives in Shanghai; Japanese and American MBA students consult jointly with U.S. companies on accessing Asian markets; business school graduates spend their summer teaching management and marketing courses to Soviet executives in Leningrad a

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