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18 September/October 2014 BizEd LIXUYAO/TH I N KSTOCK headlines ■ Cambridge Judge Busi- ness School in the U.K. and Barclays Bank have established an executive education academy focusing on excellence in compliance. The goal is to teach both technical and behavioral aspects of finance in order to create value across the sector and lead to cultural change within the industry. ■ Carnegie Mellon Uni- versity in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has launched the Integrated Innovation Institute, which draws from CMU's College of Engineer- ing, School of Design, and Tepper School of Business to cross-train students in those three fields. At the core of the program are two existing professional mas- ter's degrees in integrated innovation and software management, and a new professional degree that will launch in 2015 as part of CMU's new Integrated Media Program. ■ The School of Manage- ment at Xiamen University in Fujian, China, has joined OneMBA, an international consortium of business schools that offer a global EMBA program. Xiamen University joins the founding partners: EGADE Business School Tecnológico de Mon- terrey in Nuevo León, Mex- ico; Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) in São Paulo, Brazil; Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Uni- versity, in the Netherlands; and the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Busi- ness School in Chapel Hill in the United States. ■ The University of Bal- timore's Merrick School of Business and Towson University's College of Business and Economics, both in Maryland, have rede- signed an existing joint pro- gram with input from local business leaders. The new curriculum will be introduced this fall. The revamped pro- gram, which is available at both campuses and online, will be offered in either seven-week sessions or the traditional 15-week format. ■ This fall, Stanford Uni- versity in California debuts a three-year program that results in an MBA/MS in electrical engineering. To enroll in the program, stu- dents must be accepted by both the Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA program and the School of Engineering's electrical engi- neering MS program. ■ Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine and Weath- erhead School of Manage- ment in Cleveland, Ohio, are offering two new dual gradu- ate degrees that combine the fields of biomedical science and management. The MBA/ MS in biochemistry can be completed in three years and the MBA/MS in medical physiology in two-and-a-half years. Both new programs start this fall. ■ ESC Rennes School of Business in France and the College of Business & Law at the University College Dublin in Ireland have signed an agreement that encour- ages academic and profes- sional exchanges, as well as joint efforts in teaching and research. GIFTS AND DONATIONS ■ The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has received a US$15 million gift from USC trustee Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a private equity investor, and his family. The money will be used to renovate the busi- ness school's building, which will be renamed Barrack Hall. ■ Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, has named its business school the Strome College of Busi- ness to reflect the generosity of investment manager Mark Strome and his wife, Tammy, who donated US$11 million to the school. ■ The Quinlan School of Business at Loyola Univer- sity Chicago in Illinois has received a US$10 million gift from John and Kathy Sch- reiber. The gift will go toward the construction of a new state-of-the- art facility in downtown Chicago. Slated for completion in 2015, the ten-story building will be named the John and Kathy Schreiber Center. ■ Babson College of Welles- ley, Massachusetts, has received a US$3 million gift from the Bertarelli Founda- tion to fund a new faculty chair in family entrepreneur- ship. The school also has announced the establish- ment of the Bertarelli Prize, which will award $2,500 to the best family entrepreneur- ship paper presented at the 2014 Babson College Entre- preneurship Conference. ■ The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylva- nia in Philadelphia have announced a naming gift of US$7.5 million. This gift from alum Larry Robbins will name the Larry Robbins Building and create an endowment to support its operations. FACILITIES ■ IESE Business School, part of the University of SHORT TAKES