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Headlines THE SOCIETAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO GIVE STUDENTS A HANDS-ON OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP SKILLS BY TACKLING COMPLEX SOCIAL ISSUES FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE. at the McGinnis competition rec- ognized students for innovation in technology and life sciences. A team of MBA students from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain, took the top prize of $20,000 and earned the title "2007 Global Champions of Sustainable Innova- tion" during the Sustainable Innova- tion Summit held by the Thunder- bird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona. Ten teams competed to develop innovative and sustainable business concept plans that addressed real-life challenges faced by Johnson & Johnson and Merck & Co. Inc. Merck asked stu- dents to develop opportunities for the company to shape the healthcare landscape in China and India, and Johnson & Johnson asked students how the company could provide its high-tech healthcare solutions in emerging and developed economies at an affordable price. At the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the sec- ond annual Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition required students to apply venture capital skills to assess business for the "triple bottom line"—financial profitability, environmental integrity, and social equity. Playing the role of venture capitalists, MBA students from eight schools interacted with real entrepreneurs and developed investment strategies they pitched to real venture capitalists. A team from Northwestern University won the competition, while students from the University of Michigan won the "Entrepreneurs' Choice" award as the team that most impressed the entrepreneurs. Tuck Program for Societal Leadership Next year the Tuck School of Busi- ness at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire, will introduce a new societal leadership program designed to give second-year MBA students a hands-on opportunity to Nine Schools Achieve Accreditation Tsinghua University in Beijing has become the first Chinese business school on the Chinese mainland to earn accredita- tion from AACSB International. It's one of nine schools from four countries that earned initial accreditation in business from AACSB this spring, which raises to 549 the number of institutions that have earned AACSB accreditation. In addition to Tsinghua, the newly accredited schools in busi- ness are Helsinki School of Economics in Finland; the University of Illinois at Springfield; North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega; Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina; Sejong University in South Korea; Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia; Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California; and the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana, which previously achieved business accreditation, has earned accreditation in accounting. 10 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2007 develop leadership skills by tackling complex social issues from a busi- ness perspective. The program will include a yearlong elective course dedicated to a critical societal issue. It also will establish a collaboration between Tuck students and Dart- mouth undergraduates performing research and analysis through the new Paganucci Fellows Program. Students will spend the fall and early winter studying an issue in the classroom and the late winter and spring involved in experiential project-based learning. Subject matter will include input from the incoming first-year class and will culminate with second-year course- work and projects. Dartmouth stu- dents who are awarded Paganucci Fellowships will dedicate a summer to researching and synthesizing information about the issue in question, with the option of contin- ued work at Tuck throughout the following academic year. The inaugural course, debuting this fall, will focus on microfinance as a vehicle for alleviating global poverty. For more information, visit mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/paganucci.