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When you think SUPPLY CHAIN, think ORANGE... SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY'S supply chain management program— established in 1919—is as old as the business school itself. Today the Whitman School of Management is celebrated for its— • comprehensive BS, MBA, and PhD programs in supply chain management • pathbreaking faculty advancing supply chain knowledge and practice • membership in the SAP University Alliance, using commercial ERP solutions to give students a command of integrated supply chain processes • annual Enterprise Symposium, assessing business solutions at the forefront of industry • prestigious Salzberg Medallion, recognizing innovators in logistics and supply chain management since 1949 The nation's first supply chain management program whitman.syr.edu/scm Professor Scott Webster, stwebste@syr.edu while theMount Eliza name will be retained for executive education pro- grams. Paul Rizzo, currently dean and director of theMelbourne Busi- ness School, will serve as CEO, while JohnHarvey, who had been CEO at Mount Eliza, will join the school's board of directors. ■ GISMA Business School ofHanover, Germany, has joined the International ExecutiveMBA partnership already existing among the Tias Business School of TilburgUniversity in the Netherlands; the Krannert Graduate School ofManagement at Purdue University inWest Lafayette, Indiana; ESCP-EAP European School ofMan- agement in Paris; and the Central Eu- ropeanUniversity Business School in Budapest,Hungary.With the addi- tion of GISMA to the EMBA group, the partnership will add a healthman- agement specialization to its current generalmanagement program. The health specialization will be offered in collaboration with theHanover School ofHealthManagement. ■ Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics is launching the Albers Business Ethics Initiative (ABEI) tomake business ethics ex- perts available to Northwest organiza- tions via public workshops and online access. The first workshop in the three-year initiative is expected to take place next spring, and the final event will be a Pacific Rimconference in 2006. ABEI is a joint initiative be- tween the Frank Shrontz Business Ethics Chair, JohnDienhart, and the Northwest EthicsNetwork, a group of local ethics and compliance officers fromfirms such asMicrosoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Regence BlueShield, and Weyerhaeuser. The effort has been funded by a substantial donation from former Boeing CEOFrank Shrontz andmatched funds fromsources such asWeyerhaeuser, Boeing, PEMCO, and TheNorcliffe Foundation. ■ The College of Commerce and Fi- nance at Villanova University in Penn- sylvania has opened a new Center for Responsible Leadership and Gover- nance with Jonathan Doh, assistant professor of management, serving as the director. The Center's mission is to promote values-based leadership, ethical decision making, and quality stakeholder relationships through ed- ucation, research, executive training, and outreach. Herbert F. Aspbury, a partner and director of investor rela- tions at the Private Client Resources LLC, will chair the Center's Advi- sory Council . ■ IMD of Lausanne, Switzerland, has announced the formation of the IMDMBA Service Industry Scholar- ship, which will provide partial IMD MBA tuition fees for a candidate who demonstrates a keen interest or past experience in the service indus- try. The scholarship is being spon- sored byWaldemar Schmidt, former CEO of ISS Inc. ■ z BizEd MARCH/APRIL 2004 21