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72 BizEd MAY | JUNE 2015 people+places Nicola Kleyn has been appointed dean of the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) at the University of Pretoria in Johannesburg, South Africa. She will work alongside current dean Nick Binedell until her appointment takes e™ect April 1. She was previously deputy dean and executive director of academic programs at the school. Christy Harris Weer has been named dean of the Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University in Maryland. Weer, who became associate dean of the school in 2011, has served as interim dean since last June. She began her new position in January. Sanjay Putrevu, professor of marketing and former associate dean of the School of Business at the University at Albany, State University of New York, will become the next dean at the University of Wyoming's College of Business in Laramie. He will begin his new role on July 1. STEPPING DOWN Thomas Gilligan will step down as dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin to become the Tad Taube Director of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University in California. This June, Ajay Menon will retire as dean of the College of Business at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He plans to return to teaching. During his deanship, which began in 2002, the number of full- time faculty at the college has risen by 50 percent and enrollment in MBA programs and undergradu- ate business programs has dramatically increased. Under his leadership, the college also undertook an ambitious capital campaign that resulted in the construction of a 60,000-square-foot new facility for the school. In November 2011, Colorado governor John Hickenlooper appointed Menon the state's first Chief Innovation O‹cer, and he used that position to promote collaboration among Colorado's private, public, and academic organizations. E™ective June 30, Ilene Kleinsorge will retire as dean and Sara Hart Kimball chair of the College of Business at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Klein- sorge, who started at OSU as an assistant accounting professor in 1987, was appointed dean in March 2003. Dean Kleinsorge oversaw the planning and construc- tion of a 100,000-square-foot facility for the business school. She also served as the technical advisor for the Governor's Oregon Innovation Council. On June 30, Sueann Ambron will retire as dean of the University of Colorado Denver Business School, where she has served since 2000. During her tenure, she has worked to integrate the school into the region's business community and has collaborated with industry executives to develop programs in healthcare, global energy, entrepreneurship, sports management, and sustainability. Before becoming a dean, she held positions with Motorola, Paramount, and Viacom. NEW PROGRAMS Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill has launched a new MBA Energy Concentration in conjunction with the opening of its new UNC Kenan-Flagler Energy Center. Courses in the concentration—which will explore the energy value chain, from oil and gas to power, petro- chemicals, and renewables—will be taught by energy professionals, including Stephen Arbogast, a finance professor and former executive with ExxonMobil. American University's Kogod School of Business in Washington, D.C., has extended its partnership with online education delivery platform 2U to bring the school's MBA program online for the first time, as MBA@American. Through MBA@American, Kogod plans to o™er concentrations in marketing, finance, international business, IT analytics, and consulting and entrepreneurship. The school also will o™er an online master of science in analytics, Analytics@ American, which will include concentrations in busi- ness policy, healthcare, and financial and marketing analytics. Students enrolled in both programs will be required to complete two in-person immersive courses on campus, as well as in other global cities. The two programs will launch in October 2015. The Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is launch- ing a program designed to provide disabled veterans with the education and resources to start their own businesses. The three-part program, which is pro- vided at no cost to eligible participants, includes ten online modules that cover business fundamentals, Mastering Innovation Online Indiana University's Kelley School of Business in Bloomington will o™er a new online master's degree in entrepreneurship and innovation. The program is designed to prepare students to pursue entrepreneurial ventures of their own or intrapreneurial innovations within their corporations. The curriculum includes action-based projects—for instance, students will return to their employers and conduct innovation projects that must be approved by a senior executive and given a timeline for implementation. During the course, students will travel to Sil- icon Valley to make presentations to venture capitalists and angel investors from organizations such as Silicon Valley Bank, Guardian Equity Growth, XSeed Capital, Storm Ventures, and Sungevity. While courses will be delivered primarily online, students will come to campus during "Kelley Connect Weeks." Most also will go abroad as part of Kelley Direct's leadership curriculum, in which they'll complete consulting projects for small business clients in emerging markets in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Students have up to five years to complete the degree, and also can earn the degree in con- cert with Kelley Direct's online MBA. The goal of the curriculum is "to break away from the old traditional thinking of entrepreneurship as only starting businesses. It's really about this mindset that most people have but rarely tap into," says Donald F. Kuratko, executive and aca- demic director of Kelley's Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. "We want to instill this mindset in our students and unlock the possibilities of what they can do on their own."