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18 consecutive years ranked among the TOP 10% of MBA programs in U.S. U.S.NEWS & WORLD REPORT PREPARING INNOVATIVE LEADERS FOR GLOBAL IMPACT Full-Time + Part-Time MBA | Master of Professional Accountancy | Davis • Sacramento • San Francisco Bay Area GSM.UCDAVIS.EDU NEWSBYTES ■ VIDEOS ON ETHICS The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin has launched "Ethics Unwrapped," a series of free educational videos on ethics. They include a documentary featuring disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and more than a dozen animated shorts featuring ethics concepts. Teaching notes are available for each video. The videos are available at ethicsunwrapped.utexas. edu/. ■ TRADING AND TECH The Merage School of Business at the University of California at Irvine soon will open its new Charles Schwab Trading and Technology Lab. The lab will be equipped with television monitors streaming global financial news, as well as interactive trading stations featuring data from Bloomberg, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Thomson/Reuters, Matlab, Factset, and eSignal. ■ ANALYTICS AT GW In the fall, the George Washington School of Business in Washington, D.C., plans to launch a 33-credit business analytics master's degree. The degree, which will take from ten months to two years to complete, will include courses in data warehousing, data mining, risk analytics, and sports analytics. The program builds on the school's certificate program in business analytics, which launched in 2011. ■ THINK TANK RENAMED Leaders of the nonprofit Innosight Institute have changed its name to the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation to better reflect the contributions of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, who co-founded the institute in 2007. The institute also has a new website at www.christenseninstitute.org. ■ NEW LMS OPTION Jenzabar, a provider of software and services for higher education, now offers Jenzabar eLearning. The new learning management system includes a course organization portal with communication tools, as well as one-click access to course content, grading tools, and synchronous online meeting spaces. ■ HEDGING ON ETHICS Nottingham Trent University's Investment Society and Nottingham Business School in the United Kingdom have launched a US$50 million virtual hedge fund for 50 students, which focuses on law, regulation, and ethical decision making. BizEd July/August 2013 57