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UPCOMING & ONGOING n EXAMINING CORPORATE REPUTATION Drexel University's LeBow College of Business in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, will open its Center for Cor- porate Reputation Management this fall. Directed by Elliot Schreiber, a professor of marketing at LeBow, the center will work to identify best prac- tices in reputation, share applicable knowledge and research across dis- ciplines, and address the importance of building and protecting a firm's reputational capital. n CELL FOR INNOVATION The Center for Leadership, Inno- vation, and Change (CLIC) at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad has partnered with Indian biotechnology company Biocon Limited to form the Biocon Cell for Innovation Management (BCIM). Funded by Biocon, BCIM will focus on generating knowledge that helps companies better understand how to manage innovation while mitigating risks, minimizing costs, and produc- ing new solutions. n A LOOK AT HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT The Cranfield School of Manage- ment in the United Kingdom is partnering with Cranfield Health, which includes the Cranfield Uni- versity's postgraduate medical school, to survey middle and front- line hospital managers. The study will ask how they handle the daily pressures of health service, as well as the effects their management has on patient outcomes and the quality of patient care. Launched in June, the three-year project is funded by a £387,000 grant from the National Institute for Health Research's Service Delivery and Organization Research program. Its aim, says lead researcher and organizational behavior profes- sor David Buchanan, is to identify best practices and provide practical guidance in the effective manage- ment of acute healthcare settings. n FUND FOR ETHICS RESEARCH The University of Arizona Founda- tion in Tucson has received a gift n EMPHASIS ON EMERGENT MARKETS Businesses that are products of developing economies will be the focus of a new center at the Univer- sity of Cape Town Graduate School of Business in South Africa. The role for the Centre for Emergent Market Business (CEMB) will be to produce research, textbooks, and case studies; develop new programs that address the issues of businesses in emergent markets; and highlight the role of business schools to address the talent shortage that these businesses face. The center will host a conference on emergent market business on the UCT campus in November. Until recently, most work in this area has focused on BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), says Tom Ryan, an associate profes- sor and acting director of the UCT GSB. "But there is a fast developing from EthicsPoint, a provider of hotline and anti-fraud reporting and case management services, to establish the EthicsPoint Fund for the Discovery and Dissemination of Ethics Research. The fund will sup- port ethics research in areas such as organizational justice, behavioral decision making, and management information systems. Research find- ings will be distributed through reports, Webinars, and other pro- grams. The aim of the fund, which will be administered by the depart- ment of management and organiza- tions at the university's Eller Col- lege of Management, is to promote a better understanding of "the dynamics behind behavioral ethics in business," says EthicsPoint CEO David Childers. focus on doing business with and in Africa, with many African countries experiencing over 5 percent eco- nomic growth over the past three years." In fact, he adds, the growth of emergent markets is predicted to outpace that of developed markets over the next 20 years. The CEMB chose the word "emergent" in its name, rather than the more common term "emerging," for a reason, explains Mills Soko, a senior lecturer heavily involved with the formation of the new center. "Emerging is a term used mainly by the financial world and is rooted in an ideology that implies the markets are moving toward a pre- defined goal," says Soko. The term "emergent," on the other hand, suggests that the growth of new markets is "largely unpredictable and alive with possibility." n z BizEd SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2009 61