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The Northeastern Experience Excellence by Design C o l l e g e o f B u s i n e s s A d m i n i s t r a t i on Boston, Massachusetts www.cba.neu.edu Located in Boston, Northeastern University's College of Business Administration offers a rich, diverse, academically challenging undergraduate program that combines a solid foundation in the liberal arts with a full range of theoretical and functional business courses. Our close partnership with the business community ensures the quality and currency of classroom instruction and provides significant professional opportunities for our students. Through thoughtful design, academic excellence and professional relevance are successfully interwoven to create The Northeastern Experience. Management andOrganization. The top professor, according to themaga- zine, is JohnHagedoorn fromthe University ofMaastricht.He is fol- lowed by the four professors fromRot- terdam: B.Wierenga,H.W. Volberda, B.Nooteboom, and C.B. Koedijk. Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, has made major changes in its evening MBA track, beginning by renaming the program the Part-timeMBA. Other changes include elimination of prerequisite courses, the addition of new classes, greater scheduling flexi- bility, and a summer start-up. Stu- dents in the part-timeMBA program also will have more time to fit in the increased number of required courses. The changes were developed as part of the college's commitment to con- tinuous curriculumreview and enrich- ment. Pending university approval, the new part-time track is scheduled to take effect in June 2002. In other news from Fisher, the school announced that René Stulz, profes- sor of finance, was elected vice presi- dent of the American Finance Asso- ciation (AFA). Stulz will serve as vice president in 2002, president elect in 2003, and president in 2004. Stulz is the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher College. Two appointments recently have been made by the J.Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State Univer- sity in Atlanta. Debra F. Cannon, associate professor at the Robinson College of Business, has been named director for the college's Cecil B. Day School of Hospitality Adminis- tration. Before this appointment, she served as interim director at the Cecil B. Day School for ten months. In addition,W. PrestonWilson has been named associate dean for exec- utive education for the Robinson College, with responsibility for lead- ing and managing the EMBA pro- gram there. David F. Pyke, professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business atDartmouth inHanover, NewHampshire, has been named as- sociate dean for theMBA program. His responsibilities will include all aca- demic aspects of theMBA program, including themanagement of the cur- riculumand coordination of appropri- ate committees. Pyke came to Tuck in 1987 after receiving his Ph.D. in deci- sion science fromtheWharton School at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. International business in emerging markets will be the focus of a newWeb site called globalmarketbriefings.com. In its first stage, the site will offer in- formation about 19 countries in east and central Europe. Content is being provided by companies such as De- loitte & Touche, Bank Austria, and CameronMcKenna. BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2002 13