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headlines Christopher Bartlett, Vin- cent Dessain, and Anders Sjöman; and for strategy and general management, Benjamin Edelman and Thomas Eisenmann. Other winners also were honored in spe- cific subject categories: for finance, accounting, and control, Andrew Inkpen of the Thunder- bird School of Global Management; for human resource management/ organizational behavior, Michael Jarrett and Kyle Ingram of London Busi- ness School; for informa- tion and communication systems management, Vivek Gupta, Indu Pere- pu, and Sachin Govind of the IBS Center for Management Research; for marketing, Kamran Kashani and Inna Francis of IMD; and for produc- tion and operations man- agement, Carlos Cordon, Ralf Seifert, and Edwin Wellian of IMD. Win- ners in the competition's "hot topic" category of renewable and sustain- able energy and technol- ogy were George Kohl- rieser, Francisco Szekely, and Sophie Coughlan of IMD. The award for best new case writer was won by Franco Quillico and Gregory Moscato of the International University of Monaco. More details can be found at www.ecch.com/ casecompetition. 16 May/June 2011 BizEd SHORT TAKES New Appointments n As of July 1, J. Howard Finch will be the new dean of Samford University's Brock School of Business in Bir- mingham, Alabama. Finch, who also will have the faculty rank of professor, currently is Alico Chair of Financial Management and Planning at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. He replaces Beck A. Taylor, who resigned in May 2010 to become presi- dent of Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. n The University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, has announced that Roger Mar- tin will serve a third term as dean of the Rotman School of Management. The new term begins this May and ends in 2014. Under Martin's leadership, which began in 1998, the school has increased its existing programs, added new ones, and developed a signature focus on integrative thinking and business design. n Christoph H. Loch has been named the new director of Cambridge Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. Until Loch assumes his duties in September, professor Geoff Meeks will continue as act- ing director of the school. Loch is currently the Glaxo- SmithKline Chaired Profes- sor of Corporate Innovation and professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD, where he is also director of the INSEAD Israel Research Centre. n John Quelch, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Busi- ness Administration at Harvard Business School, has become vice president and dean of the China Europe International Busi- ness School in Shanghai. During 2009, Quelch took a sabbatical from Harvard to serve as the La Caixa Visit- ing Professor of International Management and Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council at CEIBS. Previous- ly, he served as dean of the London Business School. n Sara Robicheaux is the new dean of business programs at Bir- mingham-South- ern College in Birmingham, Alabama. Robicheaux joined the BSC faculty in 2002 as an assistant professor of finance and was named asso- ciate professor in 2007. Prior to joining the BSC faculty, she was a visiting professor of finance in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the Uni- versity of North Carolina. n Beginning in May, Leonard M. Jessup will be the new dean of the Eller College of Management at the Uni- versity of Arizona in Tucson. Jessup, an alumnus of the business school, was most recently chair of the depart- ment of entrepreneurship and information systems and director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Washington State Univer- sity. During his ten years at WSU, he also spent three years as dean of the busi- ness school. At Arizona, Jes- sup replaces Paul Portney, who stepped down to join the faculty of the UA depart- ment of economics, and takes over for McClelland Professor of Accounting Leslie Eldenburg, who is serving as interim dean. n Michael R. Cooper has been named dean of Bryant University's College of Busi- ness in Smithfield, Rhode Island. For the past four years, Cooper has been the dean of Rutgers Business School, which operates on two cam- puses in New Jersey, as well as three international cam- puses and several satellite locations. n Sudhakar (Sid) Balachan- dran has been named the first assistant dean for