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Headlines SHORT TAKES ■ David B. Montgomery, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of marketing strat- egy, emeritus, at the Stanford Gradu- ate School of Business, has been named dean of the School of Business at Singapore Management University. An authority on marketing, Mont- gomery is the 2002 recipient of the American Marketing Association's Mahajan Award for contributions to marketing strategy. He has held academic positions at MIT's Sloan School of Management as well as Stanford, and has served as executive director at the Marketing Science In- stitute. He succeeds Tsui Kai Chong, who has held the position since the School's inception in June 2000. awarded the Elijah Watt Sells Gold Medal from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The medal is presented to the CPA candidates who attain the highest combined grades when tak- ing all four sections of the Uniform CPA Exam at one administration. ■ Deborah Egurrola, an alumnae of Florida Interna- tional University's College of Business Administration in Miami, has been and entrepreneur Robert Wright has taken the newly created post of Entrepreneur in Residence at the school. He will work with current full-time MBAs who plan to establish new ventures in business. ■ In other news from Cranfield, the school has developed a new MSc in Finance and Management, which will start this September. The 11- month program is aimed at gradu- ates preparing for careers in major investment banks, investment man- agement, financial consulting, corpo- rate finance, or financial research. ■ Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca, New York, has signed a memorandum of under- standing with Nanyang Business School (NBS) in Singapore and the Interna- tional Hotel Management School (HMS International) to pave the way to- ward setting up a joint Cornell-NBS School of Hospitality Management. Based in Singapore, the school will offer a two-year joint master's degree in hospitality management. ■ Cranfield School of Management in Eng- land has announced two new appoint- ments. Its new director is Michael Osbaldeston, who joined the school earlier this year. He joins Cranfield from Shell International. He has been head of global learning at Shell, with particular responsibility for business school partnerships, since 2000. In addition, airline executive 14 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2003 ■ Kevin W. Sightler has been named di- rector of the Career Growth Master of Business Adminis- tration and Master of Accounting (MAcc) programs at the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. He will also lead the Coles Col- lege effort for reaffirmation of accreditation by AACSB Inter- national. ■ The Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, has launched its new "Olin Cup" entrepreneurship com- petition with an emphasis on life sciences, medicine, and technology startups. The business school's Skandalaris Entrepre - neur ship Program sponsors the competi- tion, in which startup companies will vie for $70,000 in seed capital funding for their new businesses. One of the primary goals for the new competi- tion is "cross-campus collaboration" among Washington University's business school, its medical school, and the business community in the St. Louis area. ■ The Graduate School of Manage- ment at the University of California in Irvine has just opened its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), a central clearinghouse and coordinating unit for the school's offerings designed for the budding entrepreneur and innovator. One of the CEI's main projects is coordinat- ing the annual Think Tank/GSM Campus-Wide Business Plan Compe- tition, in which students from engi- neering, information and computer sciences, medicine, life sciences, social sciences, social ecology, man- agement, and the arts team up to develop business plans. This year, $100,000 in prize money was split between winning teams. ■ Paul Danos, the ninth dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dart- mouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and the Laurence F.