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17 BizEd September/October 2014 CU R R E NCY: AB LESTOCK.COM /TH I N KSTOCK; PAR IS: VITALYE DUSH /TH I N KSTOCK ■ Marquette University's College of Business Admin- istration in Milwaukee, Wis- consin, is expanding its Applied Investment Manage- ment (AIM) program, which allows a group of finance majors to get hands- on academic and finan- cial analy- sis experience. The expanded pro- gram will now comprise two tracks: investments and pri- vate and equity banking. ■ The University of South Florida in Tampa is launching a DBA designed exclusively for C-suite executives and business leaders with at least 12 years of upper-level indus- try experience. COLLABORATIONS ■ Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Indian Institute of Technol- ogy Bombay have announced a joint executive MBA pro- gram aimed at international executives. The new pro- gram, modeled after WUSTL's joint EMBA with Fudan University in China, will integrate local and cul- tural perspectives and confer a degree from both universi- ties. Classes will be taught by faculty from WUSTL's Olin Business School and IIT Bombay's Shailesh J. Mehta School of Manage- ment. During the 18-month program, classes will be offered four days per month in Mumbai and end with a two-week capstone experi- ence at Washington University. #wellshowyou 100 years of success Mizzou's College of Business is 100, but we're not slowing down. U.S. News ranks our undergraduate program in the top ten percent. 90 percent of our students have jobs after graduation. From new named faculty to research in the national press, this is the year to get to know Trulaske. Visit us in Columbia, and we'll show you the next 100 years of better business education. business.missouri.edu August 2014 ment (AIM) program, which allows a group of get hands- on academic sis experience. Audencia Nantes School of Management in France has augmented its existing alliance with the engineering school Ecole Centrale de Nantes by adding ENSA Nantes, one of France's national schools of architecture. The alliance plans to concentrate studies on the city, big data, and marine industries as it brings together 5,800 students, 300 faculty, and more than 250 academic partners worldwide. Frank Vidal, dean of Audencia Group, will lead the alliance in its first year; Christian Dautel of ENSA Nantes in its second; and Arnaud Poitou of Ecole Centrale de Nantes in its third.