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creative problem solving. The Sat- urday MBA also includes a required international component. n Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics in Wash- ington has designed several new programs that focus on valuing intangible assets: a Business Valu- ation Specialization for Master of Professional Accounting, a Master of Science in Finance, and a Post Graduate Certificate of Business Valuation. Intangible assets that will be studied in the programs include patents, trademarks, copyrights, and brand recognition. track called "Content and Language Integrated Learning" (CLIL). Courses will be delivered in English, French, Spanish, or German during the entire length of study. n Hult International Business School, based in Boston, Massachusetts, has intro- duced the first in a series of "Pocket MBAs." The short, intensive busi- ness seminars revolve around current business challenges and are designed for professionals and executives. The first Pocket MBA, a two-day seminar on managing during the global downturn, was held on Hult's Dubai campus in April. n Drury University's College of Gradu- ate and Continuing Studies and the Breech School of Business Adminis- tration in Springfield, Missouri, will begin offering a Fast Track Master of Business Administration this fall. Designed for adult professionals, the degree can be completed in one year. n Tuck School of Business at Dart- mouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has announced a new course called Business and Climate Change that will delve into the issue of global warming. The elective will be taught by Anant Sundaram. n The School of Business Admin- istration at the University of Miami in Florida plans to bring its EMBA program to working professionals in Puerto Rico. Classes will be held on Saturdays over a two-year period. n Grenoble Ecole de Management in France is launching a trilingual study n The University of Hawai'i will launch a new BBA major in entrepreneurship at the Shidler College of Business in Honolulu this fall. Supporting the program will be gifts that will fund two endowed entrepreneurial chairs and Shidler's Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE). n This fall, the Richard J. Wehle School of Business at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, will introduce a master's of science degree in inter- national business (MIB). HONORS AND AWARDS n Individuals who have fostered innovative thinking in educa- tion were honored this spring in the Olympus Innovation Awards Program for 2009, executed in partnership with the National Col- legiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. Michael Camp, designer of the Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (TEC) Academy and the TEC Institute, won the 2009 Olympus Innova- tion Award for his work at The Ohio State University, where he trains business and science students in technology commercialization and entrepreneurship. Jill Bamburg and Gifford Pinchot III, co-founders of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute, were jointly granted the Olympus Lifetime of Educational Innovation Award. Andrew Hargadon, associate professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis, captured the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award. For more informa- tion, visit www.nciia.org. n Three business professors are among the 42 higher education fac- ulty and administrators chosen for the 2009–2010 ACE Fellows pro- gram. Sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE), the ACE Fellows Program identifies and prepares promising senior faculty and administrators for responsible positions in college and university administration. Business school professors participating in the 2009– 2010 program are Fay Cobb Payton, associate professor of information technology at North Carolina State University in Raleigh; Mitzi M. Mon- toya, Zelnak Professor of Marketing and Innovation and assistant dean for research at North Carolina State; and Lynnette Zelezny, interim associate dean of business at California State University, Fresno. BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2009 15

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