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School of Business. Offering 60 per- cent more than the school's current space, it will feature 415,000 square feet over seven floors, 12 classrooms with a total of 906 seats, 34 group study rooms, four management labo- ratories, and 42 interview rooms. Amenities include a winter garden, an atrium, and outdoor terraces. s Bainbridge Graduate Institute of Bain- bridge Island,Washington, granted MBAs in sustainable business to its CORRECTION In the article "Brave New World, Bold New B-School," which appeared in the July/August issue of BizEd, the author's bio was inadvertently omitted. The piece was written by Tim Westerbeck, managing director and principal of Lipman Hearne, a commu- nications firm with offices in Chicago and Washington, D.C. first graduating class this spring. The school, founded in 2002 by Gifford and Elizabeth Pinchot and Sherman Severin, infuses corporate ethics, en- vironmental sustainability, and social responsibility throughout every course in its otherwise traditional MBA program. The school will be more than doubling its enroll- ment this fall by admitting an ad- ditional 50 students to its program. sMBA students at the Crummer Graduate School of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, recently helped develop the PCE Florida Index, a market value index of small publicly held companies headquartered in Florida. To develop the index, stu- dents worked with PCE Investment Bankers, an investment firm dedi- cated to providing merger, acquisi- tion, and growth capital services to mid-sized companies. The companies in the Florida index make up more than half of the total businesses head- quartered in Florida, which is the fourth largest economy in the U.S. citizenship to respond to the chal- lenges of globalization. s Audencia Nantes School of Management has become the first French school to join the U.N.'s Global Compact. Through this initiative, the U.N. brings together firms, agencies, and civil societies to pro- mote responsible corporate s Grenoble Ecole de Management in France is creating a Customer Capi- tal Institute to study customer satis- faction and loyalty programs. The center will use exchanges, research, documentary resources, and training to bridge the gap between compa- nies, research scientists, and students. The institute's goal is to uncover the best corporate practices and most re- cent research developments and dis- seminate them widely. s z BizEd SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004 17