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68 BizEd JULY | AUGUST 2015 people+places developing programs to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in New Orleans and the Gulf South. The Freeman School's existing Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship and the Tulane Family Business Center will continue their work as segments within the Albert Lepage Center. The W.P. Carey Foundation has given a US$10 million endowment to the JD/MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylva- nia in Philadelphia. In recognition of the gift, the program will be renamed the Francis J. & Wm. Polk Carey JD/MBA Program. Established in 2009, the program allows students to earn both JD and MBA degrees in three years. INSEAD of Fontainebleau, France, has received a €5 million donation (about US$5.7 million) from alumnus Finn Rausing. The money will provide seed funding and endowments for projects that will explore how businesses can create economic growth and promote liberal societies in developing markets. The gift, a founding donation to the school's new Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) in Singapore, also will establish the Rausing Chair in Economic and Business Transformation and the Rausing Fund in Economic and Business Transformation. INSEAD dean Ilian Mihov will serve as the first chair. NEW PROGRAMS This fall, the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Vir- ginia, will o–er its first all-digital degree program. The 49-credit MBA program, which includes an on-campus residency, is designed to be completed in two years. In August, the School of Business Administration at the University of San Diego in California will launch a new master of science in finance program grounded in the curriculum for the Chartered Finan- cial Analyst (CFA) examinations. The timing of final classes will be coordinated with the administration of CFA Levels 1 and 2 exams. This fall, the College of Business at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, will roll out a new MBA concentration in executive leadership. It will be offered as a synchronous online program accompanied by residencies in the northern Virginia area. The program is designed for mid-level managers who want to be on a fast track to the C-suite. In January, Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management in Malibu, California, will launch a new master of science in human resources. The program aligns with the o¡cial curriculum requirements approved by the Society for Human Resource Management and sup- ported by AACSB International. The five-trimester program requires 39 units of study and is designed to be completed in 19 months. HONORS AND AWARDS David Aaker, vice chair and professor emeritus of the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, has been selected as an inductee into the American Marketing Association's Marketing Hall of Fame. Aaker, who has published more than 100 articles and 17 books, focuses on brand equity and developing the tools to manage brands. Other inductees include Shelly Lazarus, chair emeritus of Ogilvy & Mather; Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia; and Trevor Edwards, presi- dent of Nike Brand at Nike Inc. The World Economic Forum has selected the members of its 2015 Forum of Young Global Leaders, a list of top academics, executives, and public figures under the age of 40. This year's 187 honorees include two business educators: Alberto Alemanno, the Jean Monnet Professor of Law at HEC Paris in France, and Adam Grant, professor of management and psychology at the Wharton School at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Andrew Ng, co-founder and chairman of the MOOC platform Coursera, also was recognized. To see the complete list, visit agenda.weforum.org/2015/03/meet-the- 2015-class-of-young-global-leaders/. COLLABORATIONS This fall, the School of Business at the College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS) in Rishon LeZion, Israel, and the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College-CUNY in New York City are launching an international MBA program. Students will earn MBAs from both institutions. The program, which emphasizes finance and entrepreneurship, provides students with exposure to international marketing, cultures, languages, and global business. This fall, The Cleveland Clinic and the Weath- erhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, both in Cleveland, Ohio, are collaborating on a new healthcare-focused EMBA program. Students will meet three days per month during the program's five semesters; classroom ses- Case Studies on Emerging Economies Emerald Group Publishing and Universiti Utara Malaysia have announced the win- ners of the 2014 Emerald-UUM Case Writing Competition, which recognizes case writers in emerging economies. The first-place prize of US$1,000 goes to R. Srini- vasan of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore for "Mahindra Powerol: Pow- ering entrepreneurial growth within a corporate group." Second place was awarded to Jyoti Kainth of the Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad and Gautam Kainth of Religare Global Asset Management for "KKCL: Exploring growth opportu- nities." Third place went to Alia Aleshaiwi of Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and Asma Alhamdan for a case study on the Etihad Etisalat Company. To promote more case studies written about emerging economies, Emerald and the Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies collection have formed partnerships with various case-writing institutions, including CEEMAN, the International Asso- ciation for Management Development in Dynamic Societies, and the Association of African Business Schools. See a full list of winners at www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/research/ awards/uum_case.htm.