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Headlines SHORT TAKES University of Southern California in Los Angeles have teamed together to create the Consortium on Collab- orative Governance (CCG). n ESSEC Business School in Paris has launched a Private Equity chair in partnership with Barclays Private Equity, Grant Thornton, and cor- porate law firm Linklaters. The first chair-holder is finance professor José- Miguel Gaspar. n The Ohio University College of Business in Athens has signed a memorandum of understanding with UNIMED of Brazil, a medical cooperative with more than 120,000 doctors. Together, the institutions will create two programs: an execu- tive seminar series for UNIMED physicians and managers, and a future MBA program focused on healthcare. n Babson College of Wellesley, Mas- sachusetts, has partnered with Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administ- ração de Empresas, in São Paulo, Brazil, to develop educational, professional, and intercultural activi- ties among students and faculty of both schools. n San Diego State University's Col- lege of Business Administration in California has announced a one-year MBA program in Global Entrepre- neurship that takes students around the world to four different countries. Corporate partners QUALCOMM, Invitrogen, Microsoft, Intel, and KPMG have joined with the school 16 BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2007 to give students real-world experi- ence in how companies operate in different countries, as well as expose them to current issues and trends within each corporate sector. n Grenoble Ecole de Management in France, ESCA (Ecole Supérieure du Commerce et des Affaires de Casa- blanca) in Casablanca, and business software provider SAS have formed a partnership to create a North African business intelligence hub built around training, research, and knowledge dissemination. GIFTS AND DONATIONS n Ohio University in Athens has approved the official naming of the Ralph and Luci Schey Sales Centre after the couple made a $2.2 million commit- ment to support the center and its students. n DePaul University's College of Com- merce in Chicago has received $2 million from the Keeley Family Foundation, founded by invest- ment manager John L. Keeley Jr. and his wife, Barbara. The gift will establish the Christopher L. Keeley Endowed Chair in Invest- ment Management. n Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business in Atlanta has received a $1 million scholarship-mentorship endowment from Sandra and Douglas Bergeron to endow the Bergeron Women in Technology Leadership Fund. The scholarship will be awarded annu- ally to five female undergraduate or graduate students who have demon- strated high potential for leadership careers in technology. n The Fox School of Business at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has received a $1 million gift from Raza Bokhari, a 39-year-old entrepreneur. In rec- ognition of his gift, the suite hous- ing the school's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute will be named after him. n Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has created the PNC Professorship in Computational Finance aimed at supporting out- standing junior faculty. The new professorship is made possible through two contribu- tions: $1 million from the PNC Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the PNC Financial Services Group; and $250,000 from PNC executive management. n Texas A&M University in College Station has received more than $1 million from Barnett L. Gershen and his wife, Sam, to establish the Barnett L. '69 and Sam Gershen Learning Endowment at Mays Busi- ness School. NEW PROGRAMS n Last fall, the College of Com- merce at DePaul University in Chicago launched an undergraduate major in multicultural marketing for the Hispanic marketplace. The goal is to help business professionals develop the expertise to reach the large and growing Hispanic-American popula- tion, which is expected to have a purchasing power of $928 billion by the end of 2007.