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headlines SHORT TAKES house the graduate programs of the Red McCombs School of Business. ■ The University of California, Davis, has announced a gift from the Arthur & Carlyse Ciocca Charitable Foundation to establish a visiting professorship in innovation and entrepreneurship at the Graduate School of Management. Arthur Ciocca is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of The Wine Group. The first holder of the professorship is Carl Schramm, the former president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. ■ Dallas businessman Robert B. Rowling and his family have pledged US$25 million to help fund the construction of a new building at the University of Texas at Austin. The 458,000-square-foot Robert B. Rowling Hall will 16 July/August 2013 BizEd ■ Rouen Business School and Reims Management School, both of France, have announced their intentions to merge into a single school. It will be jointly headed by its chairman, Yves Bénard, the former chairman of Reims Management School; and its dean, Frank Bostyn, previ- ■ The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder has received a US$2.25 million gift from the Thomas Stix Guggenheim family to establish an endowed faculty chair in business design and innovation. The tenured post will be housed within the school's division of management. offer a new executive education program called The China Strategy Challenge. To be held at IMD in September, it is designed for senior executives who want to begin or expand businesses in China. ■ INSEAD and the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) have launched two programs focusing on European and Chinese businesses. INSEAD has campuses in Abu Dhabi, Singapore, and France; CEIBS is located in Shanghai. ously the project manager for the merger. Together the schools currently have about 8,000 students and 200 professors. (See related article on page 24.) ■ Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona, plans to partner with Laureate Education to create a jointly owned entity through which Thunderbird will open multiple international instructional sites and campuses, expand its online and executive education programs, and offer undergraduate degree programs. The partnership preserves Thunderbird's independence and nonprofit status while proving capital support to the school. Cities under consideration for Thunderbird instructional sites include Madrid; Paris; Sao Paulo; and Santiago, Chile. ■ Aalto University Execu- ■ IMD in Lausanne, Swit- ■ Deloitte is expanding its tive Education of Helsinki, Finland, and ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain, plan to produce a joint inter- zerland, and the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in Beijing, China, have partnered to relationship with Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington to become the founding mem- ■ Dalhousie University's Rowe School of Business in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has received a CAN$1.5 million donation from Scotiabank to support the school's Bold Ambitions campaign. The gift will be spread over ten years and will fund the Scotiabank Ethical Leadership Initiative. COLLABORATIONS TH I N KSTOCK the school's board of overseers. The gift will be used to develop a new facility on the school's Manhattanville campus. In recognition of his generosity, the school will name one of its two buildings on the new campus the Ronald O. Perelman Center for Business Innovation. ■ The School of Business Administration at Portland State University in Oregon has received a gift of US$8 million to help expand its building and programs. The donors, a local MBA alumnus and his wife, wish to remain anonymous. The money will go toward a new building that will triple the square footage of the business school and bring its classes all under one roof. national design business management (IDBM) program that targets Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The IDBM program emphasizes the role of design in creating competitive advantage.