Managing During the Global Downturn - Hult International Business School Offers Insight Into the Economic Crisis in a Novel, Bite-Sized Format, the “Pocket MBA”

September 13th, 2009 NASHVILLE, Tennessee - - 'IFRS, Liability Threats to Firms and Practice Inspections on the Table' International regulators representing over 20 jurisdictions assembled in San Francisco on September 10-11, for the Second Annual Forum of International Accountancy Regulators. The Forum -- established by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) in 2008 -- is a unique roundtable devoted to the exchange of issues and ideas related to the global impact of international accounting and auditing regulation.

August 17th, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - - New Academic Year Offers Additional Educational Courses Hult International Business School, the world's first global business school, and the first academic institution from the United States to be licensed in the UAE, is celebrating the graduation of its inaugural class. On August 20th, 97 students from 29 countries will graduate from the School's top-ranked MBA program.

August 11th, 2009 LONDON - Despite the current poor state of the economy, Saint George International (SGI), the language training specialists, have announced a marked increase in the number of foreign language course sales throughout the UK in the first 2 quarters of the year. The school's marketing team has concluded that this surge of activity is in fact a direct result of the economic crisis.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Hult International Business School, the world's first global business school, has launched an Executive Track program to help place MBA graduates into competitive jobs even before they enter the MBA program. The school's Executive Track program will take one year MBA candidates who demonstrate the strongest professional capabilities and fast track them with corporate mentors, career training, company visits and professional seminars.

April 22nd, 2009 BOSTON - Hult International Business School Gives Two Master's Degrees for the Price of one Hult International Business School is offering its incoming September MBA students the opportunity to extend their studies and graduate with a Master of Finance degree at no extra cost, it was announced today. In effect this means students at Hult, the world's first global business school, will be able to graduate with two degrees in only 18 months.

April 13th, 2009 BOSTON - Hult International Business School's MBA Program Offers Students an Excellent Opportunity to Impact a Business and Shine in Front of Potential Employers. Hult International Business School (www.hult.edu/), the world's first global business school, is partnering with blue-chip companies to significantly enhance its MBA curriculum.

April 5th, 2009 BOSTON, Massachusetts - Hult International Business School (hult.edu/), the world's first global business school, announced today that it is offering its MBA program alumni a unique opportunity to maintain their business knowledge throughout their careers. Going forward the school has taken the unprecedented step of giving all of its 4,500 MBA degree holders the option of returning regularly to join elective classes for free.

March 29th, 2009 BOSTON, Massachusetts - Hult International Business School (www.hult.edu/)announced today that it is seeing a massive increase in demand for its MBA programs (www.hult.edu/mba-program/index), particularly among international students. Year to date applications have increased 102% as students look to strengthen their resumes in order to better position themselves in the downturn.

March 15th, 2009 WHITE PLAINS, New York - New Offices in Europe Required to Satisfy Demand for Advanced SharePoint Search Solutions BA-Insight, the global leader in Microsoft based information access technology, announced today that it has opened two offices in Europe to address the growing global demand for its Microsoft based enterprise search products. New offices have opened in London and Copenhagen.

March 10th, 2009 TORONTO and LONDON - With world markets and the global economy still in turmoil, an event to be held in London, UK later this month takes a timely look at the financial crisis. The discussion will be based on The Finance Crisis and Rescue: What Went Wrong? Why? What Lessons Can Be Learned?, a book recently published by Rotman/UTP Publishing, an imprint of University of Toronto Press, in partnership with the Rotman School of Management.

April 2nd, 2009 NEW HAVEN - Ivy League business school Yale School of Management will Friday organise a seminar on emerging business opportunities in India during the current economic crisis. The seminar will focus on the impact of the global financial crisis on the Indian economy and discuss the opportunities and challenges faced by foreign investors in India.

July 27th, 2009 African economic growth seen halving to 2.8 pctJOHANNESBURG — A new report says Africa has been "gravely affected" by the global economic downturn and that its growth rate will halve this year due to collapsing commodity prices and a decline in donor funding. The 2009 African Economic Outlook finds that after a decade of above 5 percent economic growth, the continent can expect only 2.8 percent in 2009.

September 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The global economic crisis has encouraged a rash of government reforms that should make it easier to start, run and close businesses around the world, according to a World Bank report released Tuesday night. The annual "Doing Business" survey recorded more regulatory business reforms in more countries than any time since the report began in 2004.

September 12th, 2009 IMF chief: Economic crisis not over yetBERLIN — The global economic crisis isn't over yet, despite positive signals from Europe's biggest economies, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned in comments published Saturday. More work also needs to be done on financial-sector regulation, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh Sept.

June 13th, 2009 Pope's new encyclical will focus on economyVATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday his new encyclical on the economy and labor issues will focus on ways to make globalization more careful to the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis. The document will outline the goals and values that the faithful must "tirelessly defend" to ensure "true freedom and solidarity" among humans, Benedict said in a speech.

February 6th, 2009 MANILA - India has shown resilience amid the global economic downturn, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Saturday. The economies worldwide have seen a downturn, which may become even deeper, and the recovery will take longer than earlier expected, but India's economy was expected to grow at around seven percent in 2008, the Manila-based bank said in a press release, quoting ADB president Haruhiko Kuroda.

April 22nd, 2009 ILO: unemployment, social crisis looms in AsiaMANILA, Philippines — Asia faces the risk of a prolonged labor market recession and social crisis that could take much longer to shake off than the current economic downturn, the International Labor Organization said Wednesday. ILO senior economist Gyorgy Sziraczki said 23 million people in the region are expected to lose their jobs this year because of the global economic crisis.

April 26th, 2009 World Bank: Nations should speed aid to poorWASHINGTON — The World Bank on Sunday urged donor nations to speed up delivery of the money they've already pledged — and to give even more — to help poor countries weather the steep global recession. The bank said developing countries face especially serious consequences as the financial and economic crisis turns into what it described as a "human and development calamity." In a communique, the World Bank's policy steering committee said the crisis has already driven more than 50 million people into extreme poverty, particularly women and children.

July 2nd, 2009 Merkel: market reform must be implementedBERLIN — Governments must follow through on pledges to reform the global financial system, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday, insisting that signs the crisis is easing cannot mean a return to "business as usual." Addressing parliament ahead of next week's Group of Eight summit in Italy, Merkel said G-20 summits in Washington last year and in London this April took "important first steps." "What is important is that we now implement these measures — and, as we are seeing, there are immediately defensive reflexes against pushing through further regulation at the moment when banks feel something of a recovery," she told lawmakers. There must be "no slackening of efforts toward a (new) financial market constitution and no return to business as usual," Merkel told lawmakers.

June 22nd, 2009 Sarkozy warns crisis not over yetVERSAILLES, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Monday that the economic crisis "is not finished," but added that the profound changes it is causing mean France's views will carry more weight around the world. Sarkozy also pledged that he would not introduce austerity policies as a result of the downturn, and said "I will not raise taxes because ...