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ment and a master's in international business. OTHER NEWS ■ Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio, has formed a new department of design and innovation that highlights the school's focus on entrepreneurship, technology development, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. ■ The Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) has launched the Competency Crisis website, a portal designed to address the talent gap in the accounting profession. The site can be found at www. CompetencyCrisis.org. ■ "Toughen up" is the brisk new tagline crafted by the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester in New York. "'Toughen up' is about being unapologetically honest about how challenging business is today," observes dean Mark Zupan. ■ North Dakota State University in Fargo has embarked on a campuswide celebration of "The Year of How," an initiative designed to develop inspirational leaders among its students. The initiative is partly driven by the College of Business' Legacy Program. To launch the initiative, the students collaborated with author Dov Seidman, who wrote HOW: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything. The Year of How initiative includes seminars and a certification program built around Seidman's philosophy that in a transparent and hyperconnected world, what distinguishes companies and leaders is how they behave, not what they make or sell. Kleban Properties. FAME initially will feature three entrepreneurs who were chosen in a competitive selection process. They are being provided with a suite of services that include access to mentors from the Dolan School and the local business community, discounted graphic design and legal services, technology resources, workshops, and potential startup funding. CORRECTION The article "Idea Central" in the November/December 2013 issue misstated the square footage of the Fordham Foundry, the incubator at Fordham University in New York City. The Foundry occupies 2,400 square feet within a 30,000-square-foot facility, not 30,000 square feet as stated in the article. Also, the school began offering workshops and boot camps to Bronx business owners in January 2014, not in fall 2013. BizEd's digital edition has been revised to reflect these corrections. ■ The University of Miami School of Business Administration in Florida has joined the Global Business School Network, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works to improve management education for the developing world. For more information, visit www. gbsnonline.org. ■ Last fall, Fairfield University in Connecticut celebrated the grand opening of its Fairfield University Accelerator and Mentoring Enterprise (FAME). The business incubator program is a collaboration among the Charles F. Dolan School of Business, the Town of Fairfield Economic Development Department, and BizEd January/February 2014 17

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