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tures a fundamental shift in the program's mission, a dozen new courses, and a holistic integration of sustainability principles. ■ In fall 2014, the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston will launch the finance track of its PhD in Business Administration. ■ Next fall, Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, will debut a new degree in entrepreneurial leadership. The nine-month master of science in management is designed for students who recently earned their bachelor's degrees and have little business experience. AYZ E K/TH I N KSTOCK; AYZ E K/TH I N KSTOCK ■ The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin has established the Energy Management Program for undergraduates interested in energy careers. Students from all majors can supplement their primary degrees with 18 hours of energyspecific studies and various co-curricular activities. ■ The College of Business at Iowa State University in Ames is launching a full-time master of finance program. In addition to core topics such as financial analysis and valuation, students will learn advanced regression techniques and programming approaches for data analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, and other skills. ■ The Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University in University Park now offers a formal concentration in sustainability and social innovation. MBA students pursuing the new concentration will complete coursework from both Smeal and the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. ■ The College of Charleston School of Business in South Carolina is launching the Business Investment Program, which allows a group of 20 students to act as a brokerage firm. Unlike university programs that focus on equity investing only, the Charleston program has no restrictions on where students can invest. The program was funded by a gift of US$540,000 from Steve and Maureen Kerrigan. Each semester, $50,000 from the fund will be allocated for student investing. COLLABORATIONS ■ The Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, has announced a student exchange and academic collaboration agreement with Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. Students will spend threeand-a-half years at Kadir Has and 18 months at Rollins and graduate with a degree in engineering and an MBA. ■ EM Strasbourg Business School in France and the University of Adelaide in Australia have been awarded €700,000 (about US$950,000) by the European Commission and Australian Government to develop a dual degree program among the University of Strasbourg, Università Ca'Foscari of Venice in Italy, Corvinus University of Budapest in Hungary, the University of Adelaide, and the University of Western Australia in Perth. The goals are to enhance dual degree mobility among schools; to encourage cohorts of students to work on European-Australasian business issues; to promote collaborative research between Australia and the EU; and to win support from industry. ■ Three business schools located in Kansas City—both the Missouri and Kansas sides—have joined to form the Big 3 Alliance, a partnership dedicated to educating prospective students on the value of an MBA degree. The University of MissouriKansas City, the University of Kansas, and Rockhurst University in Kansas will promote their AACSB accreditations, large alumni networks, and campus facilities. More information can be found at big3mba.com. ■ London Business School and Walpole British Luxury have joined forces to offer a luxury management program that will rely on practitionerled lectures developed in conjunction with marketing faculty. Students will be mentored by a senior business leader from within the Walpole membership. ■ Columbia Business School in New York City and Morgan Stanley have launched the Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Fellowship. Fellows will conduct supervised research at the school and intern at Morgan Stanley to gain hands-on experience in investing for sustainable economic growth. GRANTS AND DONATIONS ■ The Villanova School of Business in Pennsylvania has received a US$50 million commitment—the largest gift in Villanova University's history—from alumnus James C. Davis and his wife, Kim. The Davis donation is part of Villanova University's $600 million comprehensive capital campaign. The Davis gift will be used to support educational programs, scholarships, study abroad, and professional development. It also will promote curricular innovation, support faculty development, and fund facility improvements. BizEd January/February 2014 15