Kedge Business School in France and global
asset manager Candriam have launched a research
chair dedicated to sustainable finance. The chair
will be led by Christophe Revelli. The chair will
explore how sustainability and accountability
issues create additional value and have an impact
on businesses and the economic development of
society as a whole.
The MIT Sloan School of Management at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge has entered into a five-year agreement
with Queensland University of Technology
Business School in Australia. The partnership will
support academic exchange and provide students
in QUT’s entrepreneurship program access to MIT
Sloan’s global entrepreneurial networks. The
schools also will create a two-week entrepreneurship
and digital transformation immersion program
that will launch in the summer of 2020 and enroll
up to 60 QUT MBA and EMBA students.
Five universities in Florida have created an alliance
to accelerate the advancement of women of color
in the academic fields of science, technology,
engineering, and math. The Florida AGEP Pathways
Alliance, which has received a US$2.4 million grant
from the National Science Foundation, will work
with 300 doctoral, postdoctoral, and early-career
minority women faculty to advance their careers
in STEM. About $1.3 million of the grant will go to
the University of South Florida St. Petersburg
and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
The remainder will go to Florida International
University in Miami, Florida Memorial University
in Miami Gardens, and Bethune-Cookman
University in Daytona Beach.
ESSEC Business School in Cergy, France, is
launching a beauty program in collaboration with
cosmetics company Estée Lauder, fragrance and
cosmetics company IFF, and perfumery Nocibé
of the Douglas Group. The new Leading a Beauty
Brand Chair will be headed by Véronique Drecq.
Aston University in Birmingham, England, is
partnering with online program management
provider Keypath Education to deliver an online
executive DBA program. The online executive DBA
offers niche courses in subjects such as financial
management, engineering and technology, and
public administration.