UM business school gets fitting identity with new building

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 | Source: Crain's Detroit Business
The University of Michigan's Ross Business School has a new identity to go with its new home.

Excerpt:

Robert Dolan noticed a problem when he arrived at the University of Michigan in 2001 as dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.

The school was a hodgepodge of buildings constructed since the 1940s on the northeast block where Hill Street and Tappan Street intersect in downtown Ann Arbor — not an ideal fit for the school's MBA program identity of team-based, action-based learning.

But business students returning to class in January were greeted by the school's new, 270,000-square-foot, $175 million building, built to better fit with the school's identity.

“We believe there are some important things you do in the classroom in terms of developing conceptual skills, but a lot of your leadership skill development is going to take place in a team setting, and so we do lots of project work around teams,” Dolan said.

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