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MAY | JUNE 2015 BizEd 73 a seven-day residency, and a six-month mentorship that provides complimentary support services. Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has announced an accelerated STEM-MBA designed for undergraduates in selected science, technology, and math majors. It will be available this fall. The five-year program allows students to earn bachelor's degrees in their fields as well as MBAs from Mar- quette's Graduate School of Management. The Dolan School of Business at Fairfield Univer- sity in Connecticut has launched a new master of science degree in business analytics (MSBA), which emphasizes database management and business intelligence. Aimed at working professionals, the 30-credit, ten-course MSBA is a hybrid program that o™ers on-campus and online courses. The Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Adminis- tration of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, has partnered with the university's Faculty of Engineering to create the Sasin Chula Engineering (SCE) Dual Master's Degree Program. Those who complete the program will earn MBAs and master's degrees in industrial engineering. Starting in fall 2015, incoming freshmen to the Uni- versity of Iowa in Iowa City can choose to complete an undergraduate marketing degree from the Tippie College of Business in three years. The option is part of Iowa Degree in Three, a universitywide initiative that aims to help students reduce their tuition costs. Iowa Degree in Three majors still require the same number of credit hours as a four-year degree, so eligible students are those who enroll with existing college credits, can handle taking heavier course loads each semester, and are willing to take courses during the summer. In other news from the University of Iowa, the Tippie College of Business also is adding a master of science program in business analytics to its curricu- lum this fall. O™ered part-time and in the evening, the ten-course program will join an existing portfolio of programs in business analytics. GRANTS & DONATIONS Morris and Esther Massry have given US$5.25 million to the University of Albany, State University of New York, to support the School of Business, as well as universitywide initiatives. The gift will fund new technologies, speakers, conferences, and programs. It also will be used to establish the Massry Community Fellows Program to sponsor internships with local nonprofits. The University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania has received a US$5 million gift from the Henry E. Haller Jr. Foundation to endow a chair for the dean of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration. The inaugural Henry E. Haller Jr. Dean will be John T. Delaney, current dean of the Katz School. The Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business has received a US$5 million commitment from the Ray C. Anderson Foundation to rename the Center for Business Strategies for Sustainability. The center now will be known as the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business. In early 2013, the center was established with $750,000 from the foundation and $300,000 from the Kendeda Fund. This new gift will be distributed over the next ten years. HONORS & AWARDS The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) has awarded its Foreign Policy Association Medal to Peter Henry, economist and dean of New York University's Stern School of Business. The FPA recognized Henry for his contributions to raising the public's awareness of, understanding of, and participation in American foreign policy, as well as for his role in preparing future business leaders for a global economy. Past winners include former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; William C. Dudley, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and Mo Ibrahim, founder of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. The Year's Best Cases The Case Centre, with o•ces in the U.S. and the U.K., has recognized business educators for excellence in case writing and teaching in its 2015 Awards and Competitions. Debapratim Purkayastha of ICFAI Business School in Hyderabad, India, re- ceived the award for Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method. He was recog- nized, in part, for his work as one of The Case Centre's bestselling case authors, his creation of "comic book" cases with his colleague Siddarth Ghosh, and his inspira- tional workshops for scholars, faculty, and executives. The Overall Winning Case award was presented to David B. Yo•e and Renee Kim of Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, for their case "Cola Wars Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010." Their case chronicles not only the rivalry of the two soda giants, but also asks students to explore the fate of both in the face of declining global soda sales. Among winners in nine categories were David P. Baron of Stanford Graduate School of Business in California, who won in the economics, politics, and business environment category for "Goldman Sachs and Its Reputation"; and Chloé Renault, Frédéric Dalsace, and Wolfgang Ulaga of HEC Paris in France, who won in the marketing category for "Michelin Fleet Solutions: From Selling Tires to Selling Kilometers." Steven Muylle and Stijn Viaene of Vlerick Business School in Belgium won the Outstanding Case Writer: Hot Topic "Digital Transformation" competition for "Hello Bank! The Birth of a Mobile Bank." Laurel C. Austin of Copenhagen Business School in Denmark was named Outstanding New Case Writer for "UCSD: A Cancer Cluster in the Literature Building?" Casey Lichtendahl of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in Charlottesville was named Outstanding Case Teacher. For a complete list of winners and links to information about the winning cases, visit www.thecasecentre.org/educators/casemethod/awards/winners/2015.