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Headlines Winners Announced in A.T. Kearney's Global Prize Case Challenge Five schools competed in the European finals of the A.T. Kearney Global Prize Case Challenge, a competition that invites participants to develop a post-merger integration plan cover- ing the first 100 days following the acquisition of an automotive manu- facturer. The Judge Institute of the University of Cambridge won top honors, with the Rotterdam School ofManagement at Erasmus Graduate School of Business taking the runner- up spot. Others competing in the finals wereManchester Business School, London Business School, and SHORT TAKES The Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut, conferred its Yale School ofManagement Award for Distinguished Leadership in Global CapitalMarkets onWilliam J. McDonough, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The ceremony took place in London at an event that drew to- gether 50 of the world's leading fin- anciers, finance ministers, and central bank governors. The Paul Dubrule Chair in Sustainable Development was inaugurated in January on the Fontainebleau, France, campus of INSEAD. The chair, which will be held by professor Ethan Kapstein, was created by Paul Dubrule, co-chairman and founder of the Accor group. A chair is a per- manently funded faculty position re- garded as the most prestigious form of support a donor can provide to the school. Endowing the chair al- 12 BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2002 such as result focus, resource re- quirements, risk management, and communication. "The case is very realistic. It is based on a client engagement," says Ton van Elst, vice president of A.T. Kearney in the Brus- sels office and a member of the judging panel. "We gave the teams a chance to directly experience the business and consultancy world. Both analytical and organizational skills were tested. Students were chal- lenged and needed to think on their feet. In addition, team members could only resolve the case study if IESE Business School at the University of Navarra. Teams were rated on criteria lows Dubrule to support leading- edge thinking and research on sus- tainable development and its implica- tions for environment and management issues worldwide. In other news from INSEAD, the school has announced its first exchange profes- sor with TheWharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia: Bruce Kogut, leader in international management at the Wharton School, will teachMBA and Ph.D. programs during his one- year residency at INSEAD's Fontainebleau campus. International trade expert Fermin Cuza has been named executive-in-residence in the college of Business and Econom- ics at California State University in Los Angeles. Cuza is former senior vice president for international trade and world government affairs with Mattel Inc.He will be the college's first executive-in-residence, a position to van Elst. The 2001 A.T. Kearney their questions elicited the answers necessary for a successful strategy and implementation," according ed, a trend that organizers expect to continue, with business schools join- ing from South America and Asia Pacific as well as Europe and the U.S. The concept was developed to give first-yearMBA students at the world's top business schools a taste of con- sulting in a realistic environment.■ z created to offer selected business ex- ecutives an opportunity to share their expertise with faculty and students. Two professors have been named principal investigators in ongoing efforts to uncover international pricing schemes that cost the U.S. Treasury $45 bil- lion in income tax revenue in 2000. Simon J. Pak is an associate profes- sor at Penn State University, and John S. Zdanowicz is a professor at Florida International University's College of Business Administration. Together they have conducted stud- ies on international pricing schemes since 1992. The 2002 Treasury-Gen- eral Government Appropriations bill awards them a $2 million grant to continue their work. Four professors at the Rotterdam School of Management of ErasmusUniversity were among those named late last year as top professors inmanagement in the Netherlands by theDutchmagazine Global Prize Case Challenge was the fifth since the event's inception and the third to be held in Europe. Each year the competition has expand-