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Headlines SHORT TAKES n The Ohio State University in Colum- bus is offering a new interdisciplin- ary minor in entrepreneurship. Launched by the Center for Entre- preneurship in the Fisher College of Business, the program will be offered jointly with the colleges of Arts and Sciences; Human Ecology; and Engineering, Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. n This fall, the Belk College of Busi- ness at the University of North Carolina in Char- lotte will launch an MBA in sports marketing and management. n The department of strategic man- agement and business at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdamn, The Neth- erlands, has launched a part-time executive program in strategic man- agement geared for international participants. Ten flexible modules will cover topics such as interna- tional strategy, corporate restruc- turing, corporate governance, and innovation. n Grenoble Graduate School of Busi- ness in France has established an international master of science in finance. Conducted in English, the program covers financial management, corporate finance, and financial markets. OTHER NEWS n A new strategic plan for Audencia Nantes School of Management in France is helping the school move away from its Grand Ecole format. Audencia has taken responsibility for running two 14 BizEd SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2006 other schools: Sciencescom, Nantes's communication and media school, which provides a Masters program; and the Ecole Atlantique de Com- merce, a business school with a pres- ence both in Nantes and nearby St. Nazaire. The reorganization means that the group can now propose bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in line with the Bologna accords on the harmonization of European higher education systems. n Grenoble Ecole de Management in France has established an office in New Delhi, India, to further its growing presence in the country. The school has recently signed partnerships with the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade and the International Man- agement Institute, which will allow Grenoble students to study for up to a year in India. Also planned are student and faculty exchanges and joint development of executive edu- cation programs. n Reims Management School is capitalizing on its location in the heart of France's Champagne region by creating a Chair of Champagne. The school plans to recruit a profes- sor to head the chair and develop a research laborato- ry that will focus on issues and challenges facing the champagne industry. n The E.J. Ourso College of Busi- ness at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge has chosen its site for a new freestanding building for the busi- ness school. The new building will be part of an infrastructure overhaul at the university and is considered a lead project in the school's new Forever LSU capital campaign. The planned 260,000-square-foot facility is expected to cost $60 million. n ESSEC Business School in Paris has launched ESSEC Ventures I, a €500,000 seed fund that will be used to finance startups devel- oped by the ESSEC com- munity. The fund is one way ESSEC hopes to meet ongoing goals of developing an entrepreneurial culture among its students, supporting startups, and overcoming the lack of financ- ing available in France to companies in the early phases of development. Two enterprises from the ESSEC incubator have already been financed by the seed fund. n Two of the programs in the Uni- versity of North Florida's Coggin College of Business have been designated as "flagship" programs for the Jack- sonville school. The designation means that Coggin's Transporta- tion & Logistics Program and its International Business Program will be eligible for part of the $1.25 mil- lion set aside by the university to fund flagship projects. In support of the Transportation & Logistics Program, the school will establish a logistics information technology solutions laboratory. The Interna- tional Business Program will expand study abroad activities and recruit additional faculty. The school will also expand its GlobalMBA pro- gram, which currently focuses on Europe, by adding an emphasis on Latin America and Asia. n z