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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 forglobalimPact Full-Time + Part-Time MBA | Master of Professional Accountancy | Davis • Sacramento • San Francisco Bay Area gsm.ucdavIs.edu chairman of pharmaceutical firm F. Hoffmann-LaRoche. The money will be used to construct the school's Leadership Development Centre in Singapore. (US$7.6 million) campus is the fourth for the business school, which also has locations in two other Belgian cities, Ghent and Leuven, as well as in St. Petersburg, Russia. FACILITIES n Audencia Nantes School n This fall, the University of of Management in France has opened a site in Paris where it will offer educational programs and host its alumni association. The 300-square-meter (984-square-foot) space will be housed on the 25th floor of the Montparnasse Tower, Paris's tallest building. Missouri-Kansas City will open a new US$32 million, 58,000-square-foot building as part of the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. The Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will include active learning classrooms, a simulated trading floor, a design lab, a behavioral science research space, an auditorium, and a tiered amphitheater. n Vlerick Business School has built a 4,800-squaremeter (15,700-square-foot) learning, research, and network facility in Brussels, Belgium. The €5.7 million OTHER NEWS n Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in Washington, D.C., has become the 18th member of the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, a national not-for-profit organization focused on diversity and inclusion in American business. More information about the organization can be found at www.cgsm.org. n ETS, based in Princeton, New Jersey, has made updates to the GRE Pro- gram that will allow individuals to retake the revised General Test as frequently as once every 21 days, and up to five times within any continuous 12-month period. n MBA Career Services Coun- cil has changed its name to MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA). The goal of the name change is to align the organization's brand more closely with its mission to provide information and education to individuals holding and seeking MBAs. n The University of Chicago Booth School of Business will relocate its Asia Executive MBA Program from Singapore to Hong Kong, while maintaining a robust presence in Singapore. BizEd September/October 2013 19