TRIUM students are among the best and the brightest in the business world today. They are experienced executives and successful entrepreneurs who have already gone far in their careers, but are clearly going much farther. They come from all corners of the globe and every type of business endeavor. Their varied backgrounds, perspectives and areas of expertise make the TRIUM educational experience-both in and out of class-one of the richest and most rewarding of any of the elite business schools. The exchange of knowledge and ideas that takes place among TRIUM students during the resident modules and through collaborative assignments between modules creates a network of relationships and friendships destined to last well beyond completion of the TRIUM program.

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After a decade working with NASA as senior program administrator for the Space Shuttle flight simulators, Mashi Rahmani struck out on his own. In 1983 he founded MMC Inc., a human resource management company that protects the rights of employees and employers while allowing small business entrepreneurs to do what they do best, without the distraction of human resource issues.

Today, MMC is one of the top employers in Los Angeles, with hundreds of clients and thousands of employees in 26 states in the United States. Mashi is now turning his attention to the largest potential market for human resource management in the world: China. Recently, the Chinese delegation from Zhanjiang Province invited him to bring his outsourcing philosophy and skills to their vast country.

To further his global ambitions, Mashi decided to get his MBA through the TRIUM program. "I chose TRIUM," he says, "because I believe that before I can expand my business' horizons, I need to expand my own. When I complete the program, I will have been directly exposed to five different countries and indirectly to many more through my fellow students."

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Kim Daly began her career at Microsoft in 1989 and was recently named Microsoft's general manager, communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Having worked for most of her career at one company and always in sales, Kim decided to go for an MBA in order to gain exposure to other ways of viewing business and to master areas, such as finance, that would allow her to move within Microsoft. She also wanted to gain a more international-less American- perspective.

"I chose TRIUM," says Kim, "because I knew that this program would give me a level of exposure to the international business community that I could only otherwise get by working overseas." Kim just relocated to Paris for her new position at Microsoft, so the flexibility built into the TRIUM program was a definite draw for her. "I've moved a lot in my career, " she continues, "and the TRIUM program was the first I found that would allow me to move-as I just did-from New York to Paris with no impact on my MBA studies."

But for Kim Daly, what makes TRIUM great is the people. "I've worked in big corporate America for most of my career. With TRIUM, I've met people from all areas-entrepreneurs, small business owners, executives working with different kinds of corporations-and from all parts of the world. I've learned how a small business owner in the US views opportunities, or how a Norwegian or Russian's view of globalization differs from mine. All of this will help tremendously in my new international role at Microsoft."

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As vice president, mergers & acquisitions at Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Limited, Yoshie Shimaoka leads a team that manages cross-border transactions, and she routinely deals with counterparts from around the world. Having been educated entirely in Japan, Yoshie began looking for an MBA program that would solidify her global training and give her the opportunity to begin building an international network. TRIUM was the natural choice.

"Most programs," she says, "are American-centric. I wanted an international perspective and the training that will help me in my career. But I also wanted time to think deeply about what I've learned. The spacing of the TRIUM modules is ideal for that." Yoshie sees the insights she is gaining through the TRIUM program - and from her fellow students - as being extremely valuable to the advancement of her career. "What I'm learning is helping me think about bigger projects so that in the future, I will be able to operate on a larger scale."

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A mechanical engineer by training, Dublin-born Howard Stevenson is a true citizen of the world. He has lived in six countries, speaks several languages, and has done everything from teaching science in a London elementary school to working as a junior engineer in a South African gold mine. Gold, in fact, has been the focus of Howard's career so far. He is currently vice president, business development, at Gold Fields Exploration Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Gold Fields Ltd., the fourth largest gold mining company in the world. Gold Fields' international exploration program is run out of Denver, where Howard is responsible for the business aspects of exploration deals worldwide.

After joining Gold Fields in 1992, Howard gradually stopped being an engineer and became a mineral economist. That transition involved a great deal of on-the-job training, and it was to formalize that training that Howard decided to go for his MBA. The choice of TRIUM was easy, he says, "because the program is so relevant to the kind of work I do in terms of managing multiple projects in multiple countries." Because the mining industry can be so politically sensitive, the LSE component of TRIUM, with its focus on sociopolitical and political economic issues, was a deciding factor in Howard's choice of TRIUM.

"But above all, what I'm getting out of TRIUM," he concludes, "is so many new ways of thinking and new ideas to explore. The TRIUM professors open new doors for you. They'll present an idea or a new way of looking at something. Then it's up to you to decide whether you want to go through that door and explore the room behind it. The great thing about TRIUM is that you can focus on the areas that are most relevant to your job or future goals."

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As the managing partner of the Luxembourg law firm of Kremer Associés & Clifford Chance, Christian Kremer is at the helm of one of the offices of a formidable global organization, whose 3,300 legal advisers work in 28 offices in 18 countries. A banking and finance lawyer by training, Christian felt that an MBA would improve his management training and give him a deeper understanding of the economic and business perspectives of his international clients. "It was the global nature of TRIUM that attracted me, " says Christian. "I was looking for a program that was both U.S. and Europe, not just one or the other. And that's precisely what TRIUM offers. It is particularly interesting to see the Anglo-Saxon perspective vis-à-vis the French or Continental take on things."

Even before the completion of the program, Christian is seeing its effects on the job. "TRIUM has opened my mind in so many ways," he says. "It has given me insights in many fields that I would never have gotten otherwise and a much better understanding of my clients' businesses. I'm much more knowledgeable and confident about the latest thinking in things like budgeting and people management that come up every day at work. After each module, I go back and think how, practically, am I going to apply what I've learned to my job. Because at the end of the day, that's really what it's about."