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Headlines AACSB Meeting Set For Tampa Business school deans and faculty from around the world will meet in Tampa, Florida, April 22 through 24 for the International Conference and Annual Meeting (ICAM), organized by AACSB International. The event also marks part of the celebration of AACSB's 90th anniversary. More than 1,400 representatives Tampa from about 40 countries are expect- ed to attend the conference, which will be held at the Tampa Conven- tion Center near AACSB's new world headquarters. The conference hotel is the Tampa Marriott Water- side, with additional lodging avail- able at the Westin Tampa Harbour Island. On the agenda will be topics such as accreditation, faculty develop- ment, research, ethics, technol- ogy, globalization, and the future of business schools. One keynote speaker will be Robert Reich, economist and former U.S. Secretary of Labor, who will speak on "China, India, and the Future of Everything." Also on the program will be Ronald S. Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chi- cago Graduate School of Business. His topic will be "The Competitive Advantage of Social Capital," which determines the ways in which work relationships can enhance the effec- tiveness of enterprises. A daylong guest program on Monday offers visitors a chance to visit top art collections and shop in 8 BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2007 historic St. Petersburg. Other attrac- tions in the Tampa area include Busch Gardens, the Florida Aquari- um, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the Museum of Art, and the Museum of Science and Industry. Additional information and reg- istration forms are available at www. aacsb.edu/conferences/annual07/. The Global Business Climate Global climate change offers challenges and opportunities for businesses look- ing to seize a competitive advan- tage, according to three institutions that are partnering to launch "The Climate Academy." The academy, designed to educate business execu- tives about how to succeed in a world with a low-carbon economy, has been organized by Duke Univer- sity in Durham, North Carolina; the University of Cambridge in the U.K.; and The Climate Group, an interna- tional nonprofit organization based in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. The academy will feature a Cli- ate Leadership Program that will combine the universities' knowledge of climate science and policy with The Climate Group's insight into business leadership. Business lead- ers will learn to proactively address a global need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "With changes of the magnitude required by climate change, there will be economic win- ners and losers," says Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke. "We want our enrollees to be the winners." Duke's Fuqua School of Business and Nicholas Institute will co-host a three-day pilot course on Duke's campus beginning May 15. The course will cover scientific, political, and business challenges associated with climate change; technologies Students at Texas A&M University in College Sta- tion say goodbye to the former president of their school—Robert M. Gates, who has just taken a post as the nation's new secretary of defense. Close to 50,000 students and alumni can boast that their diplomas have been signed by the secretary of defense. Handing out diplomas for December graduates was one of Gates' final acts before flying to Washington, D.C., to be sworn in. In 2003, Gates championed a $40 million faculty reinvestment plan that is expected to bring more than 400 new professors to campus by the end of 2008. So far under the new plan, 39 new tenured and tenure-track professors have joined the Mays Business School, and ten more are on the way.