EXECUTIVE CURRICULUM: FROM "BOOT CAMP" TO GLOBAL STRATEGY 


	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 8 -- Ninety business and
government executives from around the world are entering the final
week of an advanced learning program here that features everything
from global strategic planning to a daily exercise hour some liken
to "boot camp". 
	Men and women from as far away as Brazil, Japan and
Australia have reached the home stretch of The Executive Program
(TEP), an intensive, six-week mental and physical workout conducted
by the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration of the
University of Virginia.
	Next week their spouses will join them for a series of
social as well as educational sessions, at locations ranging from
the Darden School to Monticello, Michie Tavern and the Boar's Head
Inn.
	Topics covered in TEP'S prior weeks included international
competitiveness, foreign exchange risk and management, strategic
alliances, global markets and rightsizing and reengineering.
	Final sessions will focus on how the executives can continue
their personal growth and take home what they've learned and use it
to improve their business or government organizations.  Participants
will do team presentations on challenges and opportunities. 
	Another major theme is the Jeffersonian tradition and its
relevance in today's world.  This thread runs through the social
events as well, including an evening at Monticello, a tour of the
Academical Village at U.Va. and dinner at the historic Michie Tavern.
	More than 90 percent of participants' spouses have attended
the sixth week of TEP in recent years, many of them on educational
leave time from their own professional or management positions.
	Now in its 38th year, TEP is limited to 100 participants,
selected to represent a broad range of backgrounds by industry,
region of the world and nation, size of organization and level of
responsibility.  In recent years about a third of the participants
have been from outside the United States and 10 percent have been
women.  Admission is based on evaluations and discussions among the
applicant, the nominating organization and a committee of TEP
faculty members.
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July 7, 1995