The Stephen M. Ross School of Business (Ross) is the business school of the University of Michigan. Numerous publications have ranked the Ross School of Business' Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive Education programs among the top in the country and the world.
The school offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as an executive education program.
Ross also offers dual degrees with other University of Michigan colleges and schools.
History
The school was founded in 1924.
B. Joseph White became dean in 1990, and began a transformation of the school's character and image. He led a major MBA curriculum overhaul, which aimed to intensify the development of students' professional and practical skills, teamwork, leadership, and overall ability to turn knowledge and ideas into action. The signature innovation, called MAP (Multidisciplinary Action Project), puts students into "live cases" inside companies for seven weeks. MAP's "action learning" or "experiential learning" approach was the first curriculum innovation in management education since the introduction of the case method in the 1940s. It is still a hallmark of Michigan's MBA program. [1] Other initiatives, such as research on how to supplement the GMAT with a test of "practical intelligence," helped cement the school's reputation for innovations that produce business leaders who are not only smart, but highly effective. [2]. White's approach built on a historical strength of the school, which was known for producing hard-working, practically-oriented graduates. In addition, White added a focus on corporate citizenship to the MBAs' training, and moved aggressively to globalize the school. Most notably, he founded the William Davidson Institute to position Michigan as a leader on economies transitioning from communism to free markets.
Following White's changes, Michigan was ranked "most innovative" in Business Week's surveys of corporate executives and was recognized for turning out can-do graduates. In 1996, Michigan was ranked second in Business Week's prestigious business school rankings, the highest ranking the School has achieved, which the magazine attributed to the School's growing reputation for innovation [3]. As a corporate hunting ground, Michigan attracted a broader set of recruiters beyond the auto manufacturers and packaged goods companies who had been its core customers.
Under White, several of the school's hallmark programs and centers were created, including The Erb Institute for Sustainable Global Enterprise, The Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations, The Zell-Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurship, the Wolverine Venture Fund, and the William Davidson Institute.
Robert J. Dolan, who was named dean in 2001, oversaw a dramatic re-building and facilities modernization initiative and worked to build the school's identity and reputation in the management education marketplace. Under Dolan, the school received one of the two-largest donations ever made to a business school. In the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program, Dolan pressed the school's distinction for turning out leaders with a practical, can-do orientation. This leveraged and accelerated a re-definition of the school's curriculum and image made by his predecessor. Dolan also made profound changes to the school's image through his ambitious rebuilding of the dated facilities he inherited, creating a showcase property, the Stephen M. Ross School of Business designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. On Dolan's watch, the school earned the #1 ranking in the Wall Street Journal's 2006 and 2004 list of MBA programs (which are based on feedback from employers on which MBA program's students they would be most likely to rehire), #8 in The Economist, #5 in the BusinessWeek, and #11 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings in 2006 (the latter three publications' rankings are based on a variety of criteria including reputation among academics, etc.). The school's BBA program is widely regarded as one of the best in the United States, having ranked within the top three of U.S. News & World Report rankings every year since the ranking's inception. In 1980, the BBA program was ranked #2 in the US by Parade Magazine. In 2005, the school introduced a 3-year version of the previously 2-year undergraduate program; the latter has since been phased out and candidates now apply as seniors in high school or during their freshman year at university, then commence their business studies in the sophomore year of college.
During the Dolan administration, the school transformed itself further. In 2004, it was named for alumnus Stephen M. Ross who donated $100 million to the school. At the time of the donation, this was the largest gift ever to an U.S. business school, and the largest ever to the University of Michigan. The Ross gift funded a campus overhaul. The school demolished 180,000 square feet (16,000 m²) of existing building space, and has renovated or added 270,000 square feet (25,000 m²).
On February 14, 2011, it was announced that Alison Davis-Blake would become the new Dean of the Ross School of Business, succeeding Robert J. Dolan. The first female dean at Ross, Davis-Blake introduced a new mission statement for the school: “At Ross, we develop leaders who make a positive difference in the world.†During her term as dean, the school created new degree programs, including a minor in business for undergraduates and a one-year master’s in management; and expanded its executive MBA program to a second campus in Los Angeles. In 2014, the school began sponsoring the annual Positive Business Conference. During Davis-Blake’s tenure, the school broadened its global presence, increasing the number of overseas experiences for students and beginning a partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The school launched a major fundraising campaign in late 2013, part of the broader Victors For Michigan campaign. The Desai Accelerator for startup businesses â€" a joint effort between Ross and the University of Michigan College of Engineering â€" opened in downtown Ann Arbor in 2014. Davis-Blake also oversaw a large, donor-funded construction project that includes the new Jeff T. Blau Hall, featuring classroom, administrative, and study space; as well as renovations to several older buildings on the business campus. In 2015, Davis-Blake announced that she would step down at the end of her five-year term in 2016 to pursue a broader role in higher education.
Facilities and institutes
Upon its establishment in 1924, the business school was initially located in Tappan Hall. Tappan Hall is the oldest extant classroom building on campus. The original 1894 wing was designed by the Detroit firm of Spier and Rohns; the south wing by Luckenbach/ Ziegelman & Partners.
The school moved to its current site in 1948. Authorized by the Regents in July, 1945, the site was in the block surrounded by Monroe, Tappan, Hill, and Haven streets and was purchased at the time construction was begun, the building occupying approximately the north half of the block. Ten private dwellings were removed for its construction, which began in August, 1946. The business school was the first skyscraper on campus and was designed by architects Lee and Kenneth C. Black, of Lansing, Michigan.
Much of the business school is located on the University of Michigan's Central Campus adjacent to the School of Education and Law School. Its buildings are connected with each other, in some cases through skyways. With a major campus overhaul underway, the Executive Education programs are located at the Michigan Information Technology Center (MITC) near the university's Wolverine Tower office building in southern Ann Arbor.
New York City real estate developer Stephen M. Ross (BBA '62) gave a gift of $100 million to the business school, the second largest donation ever to a U.S. business school (after David Booth's $300 million donation to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business) and the largest gift to the University in its 187-year history. In recognition, the Board of Regents met in special session on September 9, 2004, to rename the school the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. In 2013, Ross announced a second gift to the school of $100 million, bringing his gifts to the school to $200 million, and his gifts to the broader university to $313 million. The second gift is being used for facilities upgrades, including high-tech classrooms, a new career services space, and additional areas for practical research; as well as student scholarships. In September 2017, Ross donated an additional $50 Million to the school bringing his cumulative gifts to the business school to $250 Million.
The Kresge Library's collection includes about 145,000 volumes and 3000 journals as well as microfilms, working papers, and company files. The school's John R. and Georgene M. Tozzi Electronic Business and Finance Center has a trading floor classroom that is linked to the New York Stock Exchange.
The William Davidson Institute
The William Davidson Institute (WDI) is a not-for-profit, independent, research and educational institute dedicated to creating, aggregating, and disseminating intellectual capital on business and policy issues in emerging markets. It provides a forum for business leaders and public policy makers to discuss issues affecting the environment in which these companies operate.
WDI was created in 1992 when Guardian Industries Corp. made a 20-year financial commitment to establish an institute at the University of Michigan Business School and was named in honor of Guardian Industries' chairman, president and CEO William Davidson.
WDI supports international activity at the University of Michigan by funding research, hosting visiting scholars, organizing seminars and speaker series, sponsoring summer internships, and creating dynamic and current teaching materials. In the past thirteen years, more than 1,800 MBA students have participated in more than 450 international projects. WDI's publication initiative houses one of the best collections of international business and social impact teaching materials anywhere.
The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise
Created in 1996 by a donation from Frederick A. Erb (BBA ’47) and his wife, Barbara, the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise is a partnership between the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) to provide professional education, as well as opportunities for research and engagement to sustain and accelerate business sustainability. The Erb Institute's iconic Dual-Degree MBA/MS Program, wherein students earn a Master of Business Administration from the Ross School and a Master of Science from SNRE in 2 1/2 to 3 years has received many accolades. In 2013, Michigan Ross (Erb Institute) received the top ranking for MBA programs with a Sustainability specialty (Bloomberg Business MBA Rankings)
The Thomas C. Jones Endowment for BBA Education
In 2005, alumnus Thomas C. Jones donated $10 million to help undergraduates to experience programs usually provided only to MBA students. The gift established the Thomas C. Jones Center for BBA Education, which aims to help students apply classroom theory, incorporate liberal arts, and teach leadership. The Jones gift is said to be the largest gift to an undergraduate business program.
The Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations
Joel D. Tauber donated $5 million in 1995 to establish the Joel D. Tauber Manufacturing Institute, which trains graduate engineering and business students in operations management. The program is run jointly with the University's College of Engineering. In 2007, the Institute was renamed to the (Joel D.) Tauber Institute for Global Operations to recognize expanded interest from non-manufacturing (service, healthcare, IT, retail) organizations. In 2012 the Institute was honored with the first UPS George D. Smith Prize from INFORMS for its effective and innovative preparation of students to be practitioners of operations research, management science or analytics.
The Zell-Lurie Institute
The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies provides the curriculum, program initiatives, community involvement, and alumni outreach activities that deliver exclusive resources for future entrepreneurs of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In 1999, a $10 million donation from Samuel Zell and Ann Lurie on behalf of her husband Robert H. Lurie, established the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Business School.
ZLI houses three student-led investment funds: Wolverine Venture Fund, Frankel Commercialization Fund, Social Venture Fund.
On July 13, 2015, the business school announced that Mr. Zell had increased his gifts to the school and to the fund by the donation of an additional $60 million.
The Wolverine Venture Fund
The Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) is a multimillion-dollar venture capital fund operated directly out of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The fund was started in 1997 by Karen Bantel. The Fund invests with the active involvement of MBA students, faculty assistance, and an advisory board composed of professional venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. The WVF invests primarily in early-stage, emerging growth companies [4]. The Fund typically provides $50,000 to $200,000 in seed and first-stage funding rounds in syndication with other venture capital funds and angel investors.
The Wolverine Venture Fund, the oldest such U.S. venture, earned $1 million when IntraLase Corp., a U-M spin-off technology company, went public.
The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund
The Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund (ZLCF), formerly the Frankel Fund, is a student-led "pre-seed" investment fund.
The goals of the ZLCF are to:
- Accelerate the commercialization of research and ideas generated within the University community.
- Create a financially self-sustainable process of research commercialization, by which successful past investments will provide the funds needed to make new ones.
- Provide a stimulating, hands-on educational experience for students, thus reinforcing the Ross School of Business’ commitment to action-based learning.
- Build excitement within the University community about the prospects of research commercialization.
The Fund is made up of Ross MBA and Michigan PHD students ("ZLCF Fellows") selected because of their domain knowledge of the health care or technology industries and their experience and interest in early-stage company formation. ZLCF Fellows are divided into four teams, specializing in health care, clean tech, consumer, and technology investments. Additional information is available at www.ZLCFund.com
The Social Venture Fund
The University of Michigan Social Venture Fund (SvF) is the first student-run Social venture fund in the United States. Established in 2009 by four Ross School of Business MBA students and overseen by professor Gautam Kaul, the Social Venture Fund invests in innovative and mission-driven social enterprises. The Fund's mission statement reads, "We are committed to providing strategic and patient capital to early-stage social enterprises led by outstanding entrepreneurs that contribute to the proliferation of the new generation of socially-minded business leaders."
The Center For Positive Organizations
Founded in 2002 as the Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship, the center’s mission is ‘to inspire and enable leaders to build high-performing organizations that bring out the best in people.’ It conducts and disseminates research on topics such as positive leadership, meaning and purpose, ethics and virtues, and relationships and culture in an organizational setting. Starting in 2014, it sponsors an annual Positive Business Conference.
The Sanger Leadership Center
The Sanger Leadership Center at Michigan Ross seeks to build a more connected, creative, and prosperous world, one leader at a time. Named for a gift by Steve and Karen Sanger in 2015, the center offers a wide range of leadership development programming for all University of Michigan students. Its signature initiatives open to U-M students include the Leadership Crisis Challenge, Impact Challenge, Story Lab, Legacy Lab, and more.
Sanger uses leadership development theories and tools developed at Michigan Ross, such as the Michigan Model of Leadership.
Student life
Students publish their own newspaper called the Monroe Street Journal, named after the main street leading to the school entrance. The school is also home to The Michigan Journal of Business, the first undergraduate-level academic journal in the field of business.
One important tradition among the Ross MBA community is the Ross MBA college football tailgate, which takes place at "The Bus" before and after every home game. "The Bus" is a 1985 Ford school bus that is painted in Michigan's colors, maize and blue, and is decked out with both a dance floor and DJ on the roof and couches in the interior. On every game day, The Bus is parked in Fingerle Lumber Yard and serves as the centerpiece for the Ross MBA tailgate. The tailgate costs $10 to attend and attracts over 500 students, alumni, and friends. This tradition has been intact for the last decade (as of 2013). After the bus "died" in 2013, a group of MBA students started a crowdfunding campaign on Tilt.com to purchase a new mobile tailgate bus.
Endowed chairs
As of 2010, 46 faculty members hold endowed chairs in their respective disciplines.
Michigan Journal of Business
The Michigan Journal of Business is a biannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal published by undergraduate students at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business (University of Michigan). It was established in 2007 by William Moon and publishes theses, empirical research, case studies, and theories relating to areas of accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, operations management, information systems, business law, corporate ethics, and public policy. The editorial staff is composed of students from various schools within the University of Michigan.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO's Business Source Complete database.
Rankings
In 2014 BusinessWeek ranked the MBA program #9 overall. In 2015, U.S. News & World Report rankings of the best U.S. undergraduate business programs ranked Ross at No. 1 in the management category. Also in 2015, the BBA program ranked in the Top Five in the following business specialties: marketing (No. 2), finance (No. 3), international business (No. 4)[Although now ranked 12th in 2017], productions/operations management (No. 4), and accounting (No. 5). In the 2015 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report Ross School was placed as the 8th best Business School in North America. In 2011 the Masters in Supply Chain program was ranked no.2 in Supply chain in the US by Gartner. In the 2015 Bloomberg BusinessWeek rankings of undergraduate business schools, Ross placed 12th. In 2016, Ross moved up to 8th.
The Ross School of Business was ranked #3 worldwide in 2011 for research output, and #1 in 2013 for sustainability by Bloomberg Businessweek.
Notable alumni
Activists
- Shereef Akeel (BUS: BBA) - lawyer notable for pursuing human rights and civil liberties cases
- Terence A. G. Davis (BUS: MBA 1962) - member of the UK Parliament House of Commons for 28 years, now Secretary General of the Council of Europe and human rights activist
- Rachna Dhingra (BUS: BBA) - social activist working in Bhopal with the survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy
- Jesse Hill Jr. (BUS: MBA 1949) - Chairman, President and CEO (emeritus) of Atlanta Life Insurance Co.; businessman and civil rights leader who was named the recipient of the 2006 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Progress and Service
- Jerry White (BUS: MBA 2005) - cofounder and executive director of the Landmine Survivors Network (LSN)
- Hao Wu (BUS: MBA 2000) - documentary filmmaker and blogger
Advertising/marketing
- John M. Fahey, Jr., (BUS: MBA 1975) - President and CEO of the National Geographic Society; former chairman, president and CEO of Time Life Inc
- Stephen Sanger (BUS: MBA 1970) - CEO, General Mills
Arts and entertainment
- William Davidson (BUS: BBA 1947) - founder of the William Davidson Institute at the Ross School of Business; chairman of Guardian Industries; owner of the Detroit Pistons (NBA), Detroit Shock (WNBA), Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL)
- DJ Graffiti (BUS: BBA) - Michigan-based DJ, producer and manager
- Gary Gilbert (BBA) - Oscar-nominated producer; founder and president of Gilbert Films, a motion picture production and financing company based in Los Angeles, California
- Lynn Isenberg - author, producer, and screenwriter, best known for her trilogy of comedy novels: The Funeral Planner, The Funeral Planner Goes to Washington and The Funeral Planner Goes Global
- Tusshar Kapoor (BUS: BBA) - Bollywood actor
- Steve Richardson (BUS: MBA) - American puzzle creator and founder of Stave Puzzles; customers include Bill Gates and the Queen of England
- David Shayman, more widely known as Disco D (BUS: BBA 2002) - producer of Ghettotech
- Vienna Teng - Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter
Athletics
- Red Berenson, (BUS: BBA 1962, MBA 1966) - former head coach of the University of Michigan men's hockey team
- Jason Botterill (BUS: MBA 2007) - General manager of the Buffalo Sabres; former professional ice hockey left winger
- Bill Frieder (BUS: BBA 1964) - former Michigan basketball coach
- Ron Johnson, (BUS: BBA 1969) - former NFL football player; named by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF), as its chairman in 2006
- Tom Lewand (MBA 1996) - named president of the Detroit Lions on December 29, 2008
- William C. Martin, (BUS: MBA 1965) - President (emeritus), United States Olympic Committee
- Robert Pelinka (BUS: BBA 1993, LAW: JD 1996) - lawyer, sports agent and former college basketball player
- Bert Sugar, (LAW: JD 1961; BUS: MBA 1961) - former publisher-editor of The Ring and Boxing Illustrated
- Zoltan Mesko (BUS: BBA 2009) - punter in the NFL
Banking/financial
- Ms. Catherine P. Bessant (BUS: BBA), called the most powerful woman in banking, has been the Chief Operations and Technology Officer at Bank of America Corporation since July 22, 2015 and serves as its Member of Executive Management Team.
- William S. Demchak, (BUS: MBA) - President and Chief Executive Officer of PNC Financial Services Group.
- Haluk Dinçer (BUS: MBA) - President of the Retail and Insurance Group of Sabancı Holding, one of the two largest industrial and financial conglomerates of Turkey
- David Kellermann, (BUS: BSBA) - Chief Financial Officer of Freddie Mac
- Herbert "Bart" H. McDade III - President and COO of Lehman Brothers at the time of its bankruptcy
- Euh Yoon-Dae (BUS: Ph.D.) - Chairman of KB Financial Group and of the Presidential Council on Nation Branding, Korea
Consulting/accounting
- Gary Hamel (BUS: MBA PhD 1990) - co-author of The Core Competence of the Corporation; selected "Number One Guru" by The Economist magazine in 2003
Education
- Charles E. Bayless (BUS: MBA) - former President of West Virginia University Institute of Technology
- Söhnke M. Bartram (BUS: Ph.D.) - professor in the Department of Finance at Warwick Business School
- Vivian Carpenter (BUS: MBA) - accounting, academic, and business executive
- Wynne Chin (BUS: MBA, PhD) - information systems, academic, and consultant
- James Danko (BUS: MBA) - named 21st President of Butler University in August 2011
- Joseph William Dellapenna (BUS: BBA) - professor of law at Villanova University School of Law
- Joel Demski (BUS: MBA) - accounting researcher and educator
- Jerome Hesch (BUS: MBA) - attorney, professor, author and speaker on estate planning and taxation law.
- Ole-Kristian Hope (BUS: MBA) - Norwegian economist; professor of accounting at the Rotman School of Management, known for his work on accounting standards and disclosure practices
- Carl Lygo (BUS: MBA) - British barrister and academic; Vice-Chancellor of BPP University, a division of the Apollo Group
- Douglas A. Shackelford (PhD 1990) - dean of the UNC Kenanâ€"Flagler Business School
- B. Joseph White (BUS: PhD 1975) - 16th President of the University of Illinois; former dean of the Ross School of Business
Entrepreneurs
- Sam Belnavis (BUS: MBA) - executive in automobile racing; as an African-American, one of the few minority persons to have owned a NASCAR racing team
- Donald Hicks - businessman, author, and expert in supply chain management; president and CEO of LLamasoft, Inc., a supply chain design software company
- Shailesh Kumar - businessperson; founder of Value Stock Guide
- Frank Legacki - former President and CEO of Kaepa, Inc., an athletic footwear company based in San Antonio, Texas.
- Sam Wyly (BUS: MBA 1957) - serial entrepreneur; owner of the Bonanza Restaurants chain; founder of computer companies acquired by Computer Associates, SBC Communications, and Datran; chairman of Sterling Software
Federal Reserve/FDIC/OCC/Treasury
- L. William Seidman (BUS: MBA 1949) - former 14th Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); vice chairman and CFO of the Phelps Dodge Corporation (1977â€"1982); managing partner of Seidman & Seidman (1968â€"1974); chairman of CNBC
Government and judiciary
- Roger W. Baker (BUS: MBA) - Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology for the Department of Veterans Affairs
- John E. Braun (BUS: MBA) - Republican State Senator, representing the 20th district of Washington
- Lawrence E. Butler (BUS: MBA) - United States Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia from 2002-2005
- Thomas Cane (BUS: BBA) - former Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- James Paul Churchill (BUS: BBA) - United States federal judge
- Peter D. Clark (BUS: MBA) - Regional Chair of Ottawa-Carleton from 1991-1997
- Howard Flight, (BUS: MBA) - British Member of Parliament;
- David Hermelin, (BUS: BBA 1958) - entrepreneur, philanthropist and former United States Ambassador to Norway; Ross School benefactor
- John Carl Hinshaw (BUS) - was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses
- Pete Hoekstra, (BUS: MBA 1977) - Congressional Representative from Michigan;
- H. Russel Holland (BUS: BBA 1958) - United States District Judge
- Mark Kennedy, (BUS: MBA 1983) - former member of the U.S. Congress from Minnesota
- David McKeague (BUS: BBA 1968, JD 1971) = Federal Judge
- Donald R. McMonagle (BUS: MBA) (Retired Colonel, USAF) - Manager of Launch Integration, at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- Glenn Everell Mencer (BUS: BBA 1949) - Federal Judge
- Herizo Razafimahaleo (BUS: MBA) - former politician in Madagascar; ran for President three times; served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister from 1997 to 1998
- Ronald Weiser (BUS: BBA 1966) - former Ambassador to Slovakia
Healthcare
- Ragavendra R Baliga (BUS: MBA 2004) - Director of Cardiology, Ohio State University Hospital East; co-founder of NextServices
- Mahendra Bhandari (BUS: MBA) - Indian surgeon
- Nancy E. Dunlap (BUS: MBA) - physician, researcher and business administrator; Dean of the University of Virginia School of Medicine
Industrials
- H. David Burton (BUS: MBA) - the thirteenth Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1995 to 2012.
- Charles "Chuck" Conaway (BUS: MBA) - businessman best known for having been the CEO of Kmart; former President and Chief Operating Officer of CVS Corporation
- John De Lorean (BUS: MBA 1957) - General Motors Group Vice President and Designer of the De Lorean DMC-12
- Dave Deno (BUS: MBA) - former CEO of Quizno's; former COO of Yum! Brands
- John V. Faraci (BUS: MBA 1974) - CEO of International Paper
- Frederick Henderson (BUS: BBA 1980) - former Chairman of GM Europe and a GM group vice president; named GM Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer in 2005
- Donat Leclair (BUS: MBA) - former chief financial officer and executive vice president of Ford Motor Company
- Archie McCardell (BUS: MBA) - American business leader; former chief executive officer, president, and chairman of the board at the International Harvester
- Michael Roney (BUS: MBA 1981) - CEO of Bunzl
- Roger B. Smith (BUS: 1947, MBA 1953) - former Chairman and CEO of General Motors
- David N. Weidman (BUS: MBA 1980) - CEO of Celanese; member of the Board of Celanese (2004-, as chairman, 2007-); Society of Chemical Industry Chairman
Information technology
- David Bohnett (BUS: MBA 1980) â€" founder and CEO of GeoCities
- Bharat Desai (BUS: MBA 1981) - co-founder, President and CEO, Syntel Inc.
- Warren Lieberfarb (BUS) - Chairman of Warren N. Lieberfarb & Associates, LLC.; serves on the board of directors of Hughes Telematics, Inc.; board member of Sirius Satellite Radio and thePlatform
- Paul Saleh (BS, MS; BUS: MBA 1985) - CFO, Nextel Communications Inc.
- Richard Snyder (BA 1977, BUS: MBA with distinction 1979, LAW: JD 1982, Certified Public Accountant) - Chairman of the board of Gateway Inc.; venture capitalist; Governor of Michigan (2010â€"present).
Journalism
- Mark Bernstein (BUS: MBA) - former director of press pool operations during the Clinton Administration;
- George Blaha (BUS: MBA) - radio and television play-by-play voice of the Detroit Pistons since the 1976â€"77 NBA season
- Richard Lui (BUS: MBA) - news anchor for MSNBC and CNN Worldwide;
- Carol Cain (BUS: MBA 1999) - Emmy Senior producer and host of Michigan Matters
Real estate & Infrastructure
- Stephen M. Ross (BUS: BBA 1962) - real estate developer
Venture capital
- Christopher Ilitch (BUS: BBA 1987) - president and CEO of Ilitch Holdings, Inc.;
- William D. Johnson (BUS: MBA) - Principal, In-Q-Tel
- Brad Keywell (BUS: BBA 1991; LAW: JD 1993) - Managing Partner of Bristol Ventures LLC
- Adam Lilling (BUS) - entrepreneur and venture capitalist;
- Tige Savage (BUS: MBA 1998) - co-founder and managing partner of Revolution LLC
- Gopal Srinivasan(BUS: MBA 1983) - chairman of TVS Capital
Current and former professors
- Madeleine Albright - WDI visiting scholar, former United States Secretary of State
- Kim S. Cameron
- Gary Hamel - co-author of The Core Competence of the Corporation
- Andrew Hoffman
- Paul McCracken - advisor to presidents
- Gerald C. Meyers - author; former Chairman and CEO of American Motors Corporation (1977â€"1982);
- C.K. Prahalad - Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy
- Noel Tichy - Director of Global Development at GE's Crotonville under Jack Welch
- Marina von Neumann Whitman - Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers 1973 - 1974
See also
- Economics
- Glossary of economics
- List of United States business school rankings
- List of business schools in the United States
- List of University of Michigan people - People associated with the school are marked with BUS
References
External links
- Stephen M. Ross School of Business Website
- The Forbes 400
- QS TopMBA: Top 100 Business Schools North America
- About the Ross School of Business
- Fast facts about the Ross School of Business