President James J. Duderstadt helped kick off an intensive 16-month "Global MBA" program for 40 new Business School students, all top officials of the Daewoo Group in the republic of Korea, via a videoconference lab at the B School.

The business school has formed a partnership with Daewoo, one of the world's 40 largest corporations, to provide management education through an innovative package that includes videoconferencing, ongoing Internet communication, short on-site classes taught by U-M faculty in South Korea, and two terms of classes in Ann Arbor.