People and Places: April 25, 2023
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![]() Grants and DonationsThe Yale School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut, has established the Swensen Asset Management Institute with the support of a 20 million USD gift from an anonymous donor. Tobias J. Moskowitz has been appointed as the inaugural director of the new institute, which is named for David F. Swensen, Yale’s longtime chief investment officer. According to dean Kerwin K. Charles, the new institute will allow the Yale School of Management to demonstrate “how effective, principled, and values-based asset management serves both business and society.” Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business in Atlanta has received a 15 million USD gift from the Starr Foundation that will expand and enhance the school’s risk management programs. In recognition, the department of risk management and insurance will be renamed the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Science to honor the chairman of the Starr Foundation. The gift, the largest in the Robinson College’s history, will be used to establish an honors scholarship, develop a certificate program for students who are not risk science majors, create a new physical space for the risk science unit, and recruit additional faculty. Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has received a 10 million USD commitment from alumni Norman and Karen Blake to establish an ethics center within the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business. The Blake Family Center for Ethics will provide students with opportunities to apply ethics across the school’s curriculum. The gift will fund a director’s position, a scholars program, curriculum development, monthly forums, and an annual symposium. The Blakes are longtime Purdue benefactors who also have established the Blake Family Endowed Chair of Strategic Management in the Daniels School of Business and the Karen and Norm Blake Dean’s Scholar Award Endowment in the College of Liberal Arts. The Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado in Boulder has received a 5 million USD gift from Tandean Rustandy to create the Tandean Rustandy Endowed Deanship, the first named deanship at the university. The dean will have complete discretion over the use of the funds. The school, which is now led by acting dean Yonca Ertimur, expects to use the gift to recruit high-quality candidates for the dean’s position. Rustandy, head of ceramic-tile manufacturer PT Arwana Citramulia Tbk, has made previous gifts to the university, including one that created an academic building that connects the schools of engineering and business. The Holzschuh College of Business Administration at Niagara University in New York has received a 1.5 million USD gift from the Wegmans Family Foundation to establish the Robert B. Wegman Endowed Director of Food Industry Innovation and Supply Chain Excellence. The director will lead the growth and development of the school’s centers of Food Industry Leadership and Supply Chain Excellence and will guide efforts in creating a new facility on campus to house the centers. CollaborationsThe International Master Program for Managers (IMPM) is partnering with Inner Development Goals (IDG), a nonprofit organization that promotes sustainable living, to offer a new 10,000 USD scholarship designed for leaders who have demonstrated exceptional effort in the field of sustainability. The IMPM is offered by five academic partners in five countries: McGill University in Canada, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in India, Yokohama National University in Japan, FGV-EBAPE in Brazil, and Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. 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]. |