The Boardroom Masterclass

CNN takes The Boardroom into the top business schools around the world, giving them and their students access to the most influential leaders in business today, to find out how they made it, how they stay there and where they are going.

CNN will be hosting three events looking at modern strategies in today's business arena. These events offer an insight into the minds of some of the world's top chief executives, what motivates them and what are their leadership styles and strategies.

Master Class 1: Howard Schultz - Founder, Starbucks

The first of these master classes will be based at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.

Andrew Stevens hosts a Master Class with Howard Schultz, founder, Chairman and Chief Global Strategist of coffee giant Starbucks, in Shanghai at CEIBS (China Europe International Business School). CEIBS runs mainland China's top MBA program.

As the head of a coffee empire that now boasts over 12,000 stores and recorded revenues in 2006 of $7.8 billion, Schultz is well equipped to tackle questions on the best ways to succeed in today's business world.

Master Class 2: Mel Karmazin - CEO, Sirius Satellite Radio

CNN's Andrew Stevens is joined by Sirius Satellite Radio CEO, Mel Karmazin in front of an audience of around three hundred Columbia Business School students in New York.

Karmazin is a broadcast media veteran and he will be questioned by Stevens about his rise to the top of some of the world's foremost media corporations like CBS and Viacom and his latest venture into satellite radio. The Columbia Business School students will also get their opportunity to ask questions about Karmazin's approach to doing business, working with stars like shock-jock Howard Stern and the future of a fast changing global media landscape.

Master Class 3: Carlos Ghosn - President and CEO of Nissan and Renault

Not many businessmen can claim the superstar status of Carlos Ghosn. But then not many businessmen are at the helm of not one, but two of the world's biggest car makers.

Brazilian-born Ghosn has not always been a superstar in Japan. When he arrived in Tokyo in 1999 to revive the fortunes of Nissan, he took plenty of flak after slashing more than 20,000 jobs and closing assembly plants. But when his "Nissan Revival Plan" worked -- he resurrected the car maker from near bankruptcy a year earlier than scheduled -- he became a hero.

The President and CEO joins CNN’s Ted Benjamin in the third and final installment of our special program in London's London Business School. 300 students from the London Business School are given the opportunity to ask their questions of one of the world’s foremost international business leader.