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CEO of Baosteel Group, Executive Vice Mayor of Shanghai, Chairman of Pudong Development Bank… …and they're graduates from just one of our Shanghai EMBA classes. China's senior-level executives and government officials are choosing the W. P. Carey Executive MBA program in Shanghai. They're shaping a powerful global economy, and they're better equipped to do so. Ranked #28 worldwide by Financial Times and #22 in Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities for Economics/Business, we're most proud of our graduates. wpcarey.asu.edu ___________________ is good business. n Several AACSB member schools were among the win- ners announced by the Insti- tute of International Education in its tenth annual IIE Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. In the category of International- izing the Campus: Business Education, the George Wash- ington University School of Business won an honorable mention for the GWSB Global MBA Program. In the category of International Partnerships, an honorable mention was awarded to the undergraduate business partnership known as GLOBE (Global Learning Opportuni- ties in Business Education); the partners are The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Copenhagen Business School, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North- eastern University won top honors in the Study Abroad category for its Dialogue of Civilizations Program, which connects students with their peers around the world for a series of meetings on lan- guage, conflict resolution, public health, and other top- ics. Kennesaw State Univer- sity received an honorable mention in the same category. n Gail Naugh- ton has been named Out- standing Dean for 2011 by Beta Alpha Psi, an honorary and service organization for accounting, finance, and IT systems stu- dents at universities accred- ited by AACSB or EFMD. Naughton is dean of the College of Business Admin- istration at San Diego State University in California. Collaborations n The University of Mary- land's Robert H. Smith School of Business in Col- lege Park has partnered with the Gettysburg Foundation to develop customized lead- ership programs that inte- grate lessons from the Civil War battle. The programs will push participants to consider individual and orga- nizational challenges through engagement in action- oriented sessions, both on the Pennsylvania battlefield and in the classroom. The customized programs—which range from two days to one week—incorporate battlefield tours, lectures, discussion sessions, videos, role-play- ing, and team exercises. n The Graduate Manage- ment Admission Council, Pearson VUE, and ACT have announced an extension of their partnership to develop and administer the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) through 2022. n Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management in Ithaca, New York, has announced a partnership with the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in China. The collaboration will include MBA student exchanges, a certificate pro- gram hosted by Johnson for an EMBA outbound group BizEd May/June 2011 19