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Headlines social responsibility, according to two professors on HEC's alterna- tive management team. Karim Medjad is a professor of business law, and Eve Chiapello is a profes- sor of accounting and manage- ment control. Their position is that "sustainable development and corporate social responsibility look at what is wrong in an organization and try to fix it. Alternative man- agement looks at changing entire firms: rethinking HR, resources, or management structures and chal- lenging assumptions." The new major—which will be available starting this Septem- ber—uses a bottom-up learning process. Each student works on an individual yearlong entrepreneurial project while taking comparative theory and history courses such as "The Transformation of Human Resources" and "History of the Criticism of the Firm." Says Medjad, "We are train- ing reformers—whether they are questioning the traditional system from within or setting up their own companies." Bridge Program Prepares B-School Faculty The shortage of qualified doctoral faculty is an ongoing concern in the manage- ment education field, but a new program developed by AACSB International is aimed at relieving the problem. Launching this fall is the AACSB Bridge program, an outgrowth of recommendations made by AACSB's Doctoral Fac- ulty Commission, chaired by Judy Olian of the University of Califor- nia in Los Angeles. The program, designed to prepare senior business leaders for careers as business facul- Private School Launched in India Pearl Global Limited of India, a $400 million garment exportation company, has formed a nonprofit educational trust devoted to developing a private business management institution at two cam- puses near New Delhi. Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, will consult with the company on the strategies and procedures necessary to build an entrepreneurial curriculum. The Pearl School for Business Studies will grant BBA and MBA degrees with a focus on entrepreneurship. Current plans are for first classes to be admitted in the fall of 2008 and expand over the next seven years. Pearl will shape its entrepreneurship curriculum to reflect the requirements of education in India. Babson faculty will provide staff and faculty workshops and will visit regularly to monitor teaching, learning, and assessment standards. 10 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2006 ty, will be presented by the Univer- sity of California in Irvine and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. According to Richard E. Soren- sen, dean of Virginia Tech and champion of the doctoral fac- ulty initiative, "This program is designed to help relieve one of the most challenging issues facing collegiate business education on a global basis." Program participants will study academic culture, teach- ing trends, and the demograph- ics of today's business students; learn teaching techniques and the fundamentals of course delivery; and gain insights into the student learning process. Preferred candidates will have master's degrees and significant professional experience. Candidates also should have contributed to their fields through articles, devel- opment activities, or achievements within professional organizations. The inaugural AACSB Bridge Program will take place Octo- ber 22 to 28 at the Paul Merage School of Business at the Univer- sity of California Irvine. A second course will be held at the Univer- sity of Southern California in May of 2007. More details are available at www.bridge program.aacsb.edu.