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16 March/April 2014 BizEd headlines DM itr i M i kite n ko/th i n kstock; ZoonAr r F/th i n kstock; JAn Wi ll/th i n kstock student body. Garceau also was active within AAcsB international. NEW PROGRAMS n Henley Business School Africa has announced an MBA tailored for the music and creative indus- tries. Modeled after the MBA established in 2011 by henley Uk, the program will debut in 2014 at the school's cam- pus in Paulshof, south Africa. n North Carolina State University in raleigh has announced a one-year master of supply chain engineering and management program. the program will be run as a partnership between the Poole college of Manage- ment's Jenkins Graduate school and the college of engineering's edward P. Fitts Department of industrial and systems engineering. n the stetson school of Business and economics at Mercer University has launched a new MBA for healthcare professionals at its campus in Macon, Georgia. n SKEMA Business School has announced a doctorate of business administration in project and program man- agement. the part-time pro- gram is aimed at senior man- agers and will be taught at skeMA's campuses in lille, sophia Antipolis, and Paris, France; suzhou, china; and raleigh, north carolina. n the Yale School of Management in new haven, connecticut, is expanding its MBA for executives program by offering students the opportunity to focus on asset management or sustainability as well as healthcare. n Butler University in indianapolis is launching Butler Advance, a program that immerses college stu- dents—primarily liberal arts and science majors—in the basic business disciplines. Butler will work with the city of indianapolis and a consor- tium of businesses to place Butler Advance students in jobs and internships. n IÉSEG School of Man- agement-France is open- ing eight new international programs on its campuses in Paris and lille. these include new bachelor's degrees in international business, accounting and finance, and marketing and sales; new master's of science degrees in digital marketing, business analysis, finance, and accounting; and an international MBA. n the impact entrepreneurs program at Portland State University in oregon has announced a new profes- sional certificate for par- ticipants who design entre- preneurial business models that address social and environmental problems. the Business of social innova- tion professional certificate, launched in January, is a four-course, one-year pro- gram that is delivered largely online. n the Asian Institute of Management (AiM) and Philippine transmarine car- riers inc., both of the Philip- pines, are working together to launch the eMBA Mari- time Management Program. the program targets work- ing professionals who own, manage, finance, crew, build, or register ships, as well as those in the fields of port operations, transportation, and logistics. n A minor in natural resources management is now available for business students in the culverhouse college of commerce at the University of Alabama in tuscaloosa. n Babson College in Welles- ley, Massachusetts, has created an entrepreneurship policy and development pro- gram for public and private sector leaders. n the American Farm Bureau Federation and the George- town University McDonough school of Business Global social enterprise initiative in Washington, D.c., have announced a partnership to help strengthen rural America through an entrepreneurship competition, a national sum- mit, an online innovation hub, and training workshops and webinars. GIFTS AND DONATIONS n Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has received a Us$67 mil- lion gift from the charitable foundation of David tepper to create an academic hub that will strengthen collaboration among cMU's schools and colleges. Among other proj- ects, the money will be used to construct a 295,000-square- foot building that will be a new home for cMU's tepper school of Business. n the University of Dallas in Texas has announced a Us$12 million gift from Dal- las entrepreneurs and alumni satish and Yasmin Gupta. the donation will fund con- struction of the new satish & Yasmin Gupta college of Business. short takes headlines MBA