People and Places: December 20, 2022
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![]() New ProgramsThe McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has announced a new MS in Global Real Assets, a real estate degree that incorporates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. Graduates will be prepared both to improve investment performance for their organizations and to make positive impacts on the world. The 12-month, full-time, in-person program is offered in partnership with the school’s Steers Center for Global Real Estate. The program begins with an opening residency and includes a clinic course where students work on underwriting real estate deals. It concludes with a global capstone project where students travel abroad to observe how real estate, infrastructure, and ESG issues are evolving in the real world. The first cohort will be welcomed in the fall of 2023. Earlier this year, the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley piloted a course called Difficult Conversations: Conflict Lab, where MBA students roleplayed uncomfortable workplace scenarios. Thirty-two students enrolled in the ten-week course, which was created by instructors Bree Jenkins and Francesca LaBaron. Students had opportunities to practice being in stressful workplace situations, such as delivering a poor performance review, receiving unwelcome feedback, and firing a staff member. Ten undergraduate UC Berkeley students and a group of Haas alumni played the parts of bosses and co-workers participating in the difficult conversations. Throughout the class, students offered each other feedback, wrote papers analyzing their conflict management styles, and examined media reports of conflict in the real world. The instructors plan to offer the class again in 2023. Centers and FacilitiesThe Johns Hopkins Carey Business School—which has locations in Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.—will be moving its D.C. operations in 2023. The new facility will be equipped with technology to support online, on-site, and hybrid modalities. Starting next fall, four full-time programs will be offered at the new site, including master of science degrees in finance, information systems, business analytics and risk management, and real estate and infrastructure. Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida will expand its business school with the support of a 26 million USD donation from the John J. and Sheila Rinker and the Marshall and Vera Lea Rinker Foundation. This is the largest financial gift in the school’s history. The Rinker Family’s donation kicked off a 75 million USD funding campaign to build the six-story, 125,000-square-foot Rinker Business Building in downtown West Palm Beach. In addition to housing undergraduate and graduate classrooms, the building will feature a professional stock trading room, a 314-seat tiered lecture hall, the LeMieux Center for Public Policy, and the Titus Center for Franchising. The building is expected to be completed by 2025. The Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany and asset management group DWS have established the Centre for European Transformation, which is dedicated to facilitating sustainable growth in Europe. When the center launches in 2023, it will feature two new professorships, whose holders will lead new research and host international conferences. DWS has committed to funding the center until 2028 with support totaling approximately 2.6 million EUR (about 2.7 million USD). If you have news of interest to share with the business education community, please send press releases, relevant images, or other information to AACSB Insights at [email protected]. |