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School Aims to Seed the World with Business Sense

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The Guardian reports on the creation of the Legatum Center and its inaugural class of Legatum Fellows.

by Andrew Clark

The Legatum Centre for Development and Entrepreneurship opens its doors in Boston this year with an initial crop of 12 postgraduate students from nations including Rwanda, Nigeria and Pakistan. The centre, which is attached to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is intended to create a generation of business leaders in poverty-stricken parts of the globe. Read more at The Guardian >>

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