The Ross School of Business is the business school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Ross offers internationally renowned undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees, as well as an executive education program. Ross also offers dual degrees with the colleges and schools of urban planning, engineering, medicine, law, education, nursing, information, music, and School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE).
Ross is widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent business schools in the world and prides itself in developing strong leaders for the global marketplace through its unique action-based learning approach. Ross has highly ranked BBA, MBA and Executive Education programs. Publications such as US News and World Report, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times have consistently ranked both the school's undergraduate and professional programs highly, often as one of the top five in the U.S. In the year 2006 The Wall Street Journal ranked the program #1 overall; in 2008 BusinessWeek ranked the program #5 overall, while U.S. News & World Report ranked its undergraduate program #3 overall.
History
The school was founded in 1924.
Since Robert J. Dolan was named dean in 2001, Ross has attained a more cohesive identity. While the MBA program has traditionally emphasized practical experience, Dolan made it a central point in the school's effort to market itself to MBA candidates and recruiters. The approach earned the school the #1 ranking in the Wall Street Journal's 2006 and 2004 list of MBA programs, #8 in The Economist, #5 in the BusinessWeek, and #11 in the U.S. News & World Report rankings in 2006. Its BBA program is widely regarded as one of the best in the United States, having ranked within the top 3 of U.S. News & World Report every year since since the ranking's inception.
The school was renamed in 2004 after alumnus Stephen M. Ross who donated $100 million to the school. At the time of the donation, it was the largest gift ever to an U.S. business school, and the largest ever to the University of Michigan. The school has also raised money for a campus overhaul. It is slated to demolish 180,000 square feet (16,000 m²), then renovate or add 270,000 square feet (25,000 m²). The demolition and renovation webcam may be found here: Ross School Renovation Webcamor here Renovation webcam (java required)
Facilities and institutes
Much of the business school is located on the University of Michigan's Central Campus adjacent to the education and law schools. Its buildings are interconnected 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, has provided a gift of $100 million to the University of Michigan Business School. It is the third largest donation ever to a U.S. business school (after David Booth's $300mm donation to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Phil Knight's $105mm donation to the Stanford Graduate School of Business) and the largest gift to the University in its 187-year history. In recognition of the power of the gift to elevate the school’s aspirations and realize its ambitious vision, the Board of Regents met in special session on September 9, 2004, to rename the school the Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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. Integrating research, executive education, and practical project-based assistance, WDI generates knowledge and offers unique educational opportunities to individuals as well as indigenous and multinational companies operating in transitional economies. It provides a forum for business leaders and public policy makers to discuss issues affecting the environment in which these companies operate.
The objective of WDI's educational and research programs is to develop knowledge and capability that helps improve the effectiveness of firms and social welfare in these economies. Partnerships are formed with companies, institutions, and individuals around the world who collectively share their knowledge and resources to promote successful economic transition.
WDI was created in 1992 when Guardian Industries Corp., an international manufacturer of glass products, made a major financial commitment over a 20-year period to establish an institute at the University of Michigan Business School. Named in honor of Guardian Industries' chairman, president and CEO William Davidson, WDI represents an aggressive and visionary response to global economic transformation
WDI's areas of study include:
- The Globalization of Services explores the accelerating global trade in services and examines business and public policy issues in emerging and developed economies.
- The Base of the Pyramid Initiative, led by Dr. Ted London, is a global leader in exploring the implications of the BoP Perspective as a development and organizational strategy. In particular, WDI's expertise lies in a deep understanding of the unique poverty alleviation dimensions of the BoP Perspective, an ability to evaluate the full range of impacts of BoP ventures, and a collaborative approach to creating business models that incorporates the voices of those at the base of the pyramid.
- Social Enterprise (SE) research initiative, which was established to explore the changing and expanding role of NGOs, corporations and governments in achieving social impact.
WDI also provides:
- Executive Education programs on topics such as leadership, marketing, entrepreneurship and general management skills to managers in the emerging and transition markets, including countries such as Morocco, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Guatemala.
- Technical Assistance and Consulting to governments and development agencies in countries such as Bosnia, Kenya, Morocco, Russia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
WDI supports international activity at the University of Michigan by funding research, hosting visiting scholars, organizing seminars and speaker series, and sponsoring summer internships. In the past thirteen years, more than 1,800 MBA students have participated in more than 450 international projects.
The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise [1]
Created in 1996 through the generosity of 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). The Institute fosters professional education, public outreach and scientific scholarship supportive of the transition to sustainability – that is, meeting the fundamental needs of a growing human population in an equitable manner within the means of nature. The core educational activity of the Institute is the MBA/MS Program, wherein students earn a Master of Business Administration from the Ross School and a Master of Science from SNRE. The Erb Institute also delivers educational experiences for undergraduates, PhD students and executives. The Institute draws on faculty expertise throughout the University of Michigan and has three core professors -- Thomas P. Lyon, Thomas N. Gladwin, and Andrew Hoffman, who have joint appointments in Ross and SNRE.
The Frankel Commercialization Fund
The Frankel Commercialization Fund (FCF) is a “pre-seed” investment fund made possible thanks to the support of Stanley Frankel, whose overarching vision is to leverage the Stephen M. Ross School of Business talent and resources to help increase the number of successful commercial ventures coming out of the University of Michigan.
The goals of the FCF 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 students (“Frankel Fellows”) selected because of their domain knowledge of the health care or technology industries and their experience and interest in early-stage company formation. The Frankel Fellows are divided into two teams, one specializing in health care investments and the other on technology investments.
The Wolverine Venture Fund
The Wolverine Venture Fund (WVF) is a multi-million dollar venture capital fund operated directly out of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, enabling entrepreneurs to realize their business dreams. 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 is the largest, most active University-based venture fund of its type in the country. The Fund's contributions have been featured in numerous professional publications, including Business Week.
The WVF invests primarily in early-stage, emerging growth companies. 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 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. Jones, formerly the president of CIGNA's Retirement & Investment Services, was the school's first executive-in-residence and director of its bachelor of business administration degree program in 2003 to 2004. Jones had previously donated $1.5 million to the school for the Jane M. and Chester R. Jones Undergraduate Scholarship and to the Dean's Innovation Fund.
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. It also will develop capstone courses that push students to use many skills to solve complex business problems.
The Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations
Manufacturing executive Joel D. Tauber donated $5 million in 1995 to establish the Joel D. Tauber Manufacturing Institute, which trains graduate students in engineering and business management. The program is run jointly with the University's College of Engineering, through the department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE). In 2007, the Institute was renamed in order to signify its expanded scope of inquiry.
The Zell-Lurie Institute
In 1999, a $10 million donation established the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Business School.
The gift came from Samuel Zell, the chairman of the board of Chicago-based Equity Residential Properties Trust and Equity Office Properties Trust, and Ann Lurie on behalf of her husband Robert. Zell has since given about $5 million more.
Institute students run the Wolverine Venture Fund, the oldest such U.S. venture, which earned $1 million when IntraLase Corp., a U-M spin-off technology company, went public.[2]
Research centers
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. The latter publications are catalogued in world-renown university libraries, including the Baker Library at Harvard Business School, the Main Library of Princeton University, The Zurich library of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Kresge Library of University of Michigan.
Endowed chairs
As of 2007, 48 faculty members hold endowed chairs in their respective disciplines.
- Hyun-Soo Ahn, Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor in Business Administration; Assistant Professor of Operations and Management Science
- Eugene W. Anderson, D. Maynard Phelps Collegiate Professor of Business Administration
- Gautam Ahuja, Harvey C. Fruehauf Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Strategy; Chair of Strategy
- Ravi M. Anupindi, Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow & Associate Professor of Operations and Management Science
- Susan J. Ashford, Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations
- Rajeev Batra Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing & Director of Yaffe Center for Persuasive Communication
- Dennis R. Capozza Professor of Finance and Real Estate and Dykema Professor of Business Administration
- Gerald Davis Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management; Professor of Management and Organizations
- Izak Duenyas John Psarouthakis Professor of Manufacturing Management; Professor of Operations and Management Science; Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering
- Jane E. Dutton William Russell Kelly Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations; Professor of Psychology; Chair of Management and Organizations
- Fred Feinberg Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow & Professor of Marketing
- Claes G. Fornell Donald C. Cook Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Marketing, & Director of National Quality Research Center
- Thomas Neil Gladwin Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise; Professor of Strategy; Professor of Natural Resources and Environment; Erb Institute Associate Director
- David Hess, Bank One Corporation Assistant Professor of Business Administration; Assistant Professor of Business Law
- Andrew J. Hoffman Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise; Associate Professor of Management and Organizations; Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environment; Erb Institute Associate Director
- Eugene A. Imhoff, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting
- Raffi Indjejikian Robert L. Dixon Collegiate Professor of Accounting
- Gautam Kaul, John C. and Sally S. Morley Professor of Finance
- Robert E. Kennedy, The Tom Lantos [3]Professor of Business Administration
- E. Han Kim, Fred M. Taylor Professor of Business Administration; Director, Mitsui Life Financial Research Center and East Asia Management Development Center; Professor of Finance and International Business
- Thomas C. Kinnear, Eugene Applebaum Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies & Professor of Marketing;Director Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies
- Aradhna Krishna, Isadore and Leon Winkelman Professor of Retail Marketing and Professor of Marketing
- M.S. Krishnan, Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow & Professor of Business Information Technology; Chair of Business Information Technology
- Francine Lafontaine, Jack D. Sparks - Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Professor of Economics, LSA, Chair of Business Economics.
- Kenneth G. Lieberthal, William Davidson Professor of Business Administration; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science; Distinguished Fellow of the William Davidson Institute
- Bill Lovejoy, Raymond T. Perring Family Professor of Business Administration & Professor of Operations and Management Science; Chair of Operations and Management Science
- Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce; Professor of Business Economics; Professor of Natural Resources; Erb Institute Director
- Paul W. McCracken, Edmund Ezra Day Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, Economics and Public Policy
- Scott A. Moore, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; BBA Program Director; Associate Professor of Business Information Technology
- Judy S. Olson Professor of Business Information Technology; Professor of Psychology; Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, School of Information
- C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy
- Robert E. Quinn, Margaret Elliott Tracy Collegiate Professor in Business Administration & Professor of Management and Organizations
- Cindy A. Schipani, Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Business Law; Chair of Law, History and Communication
- Dennis G. Severance, Accenture Professor of Business Information Technology
- H. Nejat Seyhun, The Jerome B. & Eilene M. York Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Finance
- George J. Siedel, Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration & Thurnau Professor of Business Law
- Joel Slemrod, Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy; Professor of Economics
- Richard G. Sloan, Victor L. Bernard PriceWaterhouseCoopers Collegiate Professor of Accounting & Professor of Accounting and Finance, Director, Financial Research and Trading Center
- Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research; Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations
- W. Allen Spivey, C. E. Griffin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business Administration & Professor Emeritus of Statistics
- The Michael J. Stark (BUS: MBA 1980) Professorship in Finance
- Jan Švejnar, Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration; Professor Business Economics and Public Policy; Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
- F. Brian Talbot, David B. Hermelin Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Operations and Management Science
- James P. Walsh, Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Management and Organizations, Professor of Strategy
- Karl E. Weick, Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Professor of Psychology
- Janet A. Weiss Dean, Rackham Graduate School; Vice Provost for Academic Affairs; Mary C. Bromage Collegiate Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Public Policy
- James Westphal, Robert G. Rodkey Collegiate Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Strategy
- Martin B Zimmerman, Ford Motor Company Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Rankings
Some recent rankings for the Ross School:
Business Week "management gurus"
- Greg Dailey, MBA PhD Co-Author The Core Competence of the Corporation
- Gary Hamel (BUS: MBA PhD 1990) - Co-Author The Core Competence of the Corporation. Selected "Number One Guru" by The Economist magazine in 2003
- C.K. Prahalad, C.K. Prahalad, Strategy, International Business - Michigan/ PRAJA, (Ranked #10). Author of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, which details the generation of wealth from the Bottom of the Pyramid.
- Noel Tichy, Leadership - Michigan, (Ranked #9)
- Dave Ulrich, Human Resources - Michigan (Ranked #1)
Entities founded by Ross alums
Notable alumni
Activists
Advertising and marketing
- Gary Baughman (BUS: MBA 1973), President and CEO, Fisher Price Inc.
- Craig Wolfe Branigan (BUS: MBA 1974) President and CEO Young & Rubicam
- Roger Phelps Craton (BUS: MBA 1961), CFO Young & Rubicam
- John Fahey, (BUS: MBA 1975) President and CEO of the National Geographic Society. During his tenure, Fahey has led an evolution of the National Geographic Society, including its entry into cable television with the National Geographic Channel, which airs in 27 languages and reaches over 285 million homes in 163 countries. Prior to joining National Geographic, Fahey was chairman, president and CEO of Time Life Inc. He was selected as one of Advertising Age's top 100 marketers.
- Robert Leroy Hosking (BUS: MBA 1958) President, CBS radio.
- William Lambert (BUS: MBA 1982), CFO, Federated Department Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FD)
- John Madigan (BUS: BBA 1958, MBA 1959) - Chairman and CEO (emeritus), Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB)
- Phillip Matthews (BUS: BBA 1960), Chairman, Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (NYSE: WWW)
- Bharat Patel (BUS: MBA 1969), (emeritus) Chairman of Procter and Gamble India (NYSE: PG)
- Stephen Sanger (BUS: MBA 1970) CEO, General Mills (NYSE: GIS)
- Colin Wahl (BUS: MBA with distinction 1985), Founder and CEO of Client Opinions (www.clientopinions.com). Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of Investorforce, Inc. [www.investorforce.com], a firm that provides technology for conducting online investment research. The company's investors include the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Merrill Lynch, Mellon Bank and Thomas Weisel Capital Partners. Investorforce won a "World-class Performance" award from Electronic Commerce World in 2002. In 2006, Morningstar purchased the database business of Investorforce.
Arts and entertainment
- J. Bardwick (BUS: MBA 1984), CFO, CBS Television Network
- Arthur Irwin Cohen (BUS: BBA 1962, MBA 1963), President of Worldwide Marketing, Paramount Pictures
- Jacques Espinasse, (BUS: BBA 1965, MBA 1966), CFO of Vivendi Universal, owner of Universal Studios and Universal Music Group.
- Kim Kwang-jin (BUS: MBA 1989) Head of research at Dongbu Asset Management
- Robert Roth (BUS: MBA 1979) - Executive Vice President and CFO of HBO.
- Robert Shaye (BUS: BBA 1960) - Founder and Co-Chairman, New Line Cinema. Produced The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- David Shayman (BUS: BBA 2002) - Ghettotech music pioneer and producer for R&B and hip-hop acts like 50 Cent, Nina Sky, AZ, Chamillionaire, and Kevin Federline.
- Roger M. Szepelak (BUS: BBA 1986), CFO (emeritus) Rio Hotel & Casino; as of 2000, COO of MTR Gaming Group.
Asset management
- David (BUS: MBA 1968) and Fred Alger (BUS: MBA 1958) - Fred Alger Management. Managed $15 billion and had 220 employees at the time of David Alger’s death in the World Trade Center.
- John Appel (BUS: BBA 1970), President and Vice Chairman, Dain Bosworth, Inc.
- Robert James Blanding (BUS: MBA 1971), Chairman and CEO, Loomis Sayles & Company, L.P. a $95 billion dollar asset management company.
- Mark Bodnar (BUS: MBA 1983), President, AXA Advisors, LLC (NYSE: AXA)
- Cleveland Christophe (BUS: MBA 1967) - Managing partner of TSG Capital Group.
- Samuel Corl (BUS: BBA 1960), President, Magellan Global Management Resources
- Kenneth B. Cutler (BUS: BBA 1954), Partner and General Counsel Lord Abbett & Company
- J. Michael Davis (BUS: MBA 1993) - President and CEO National City Bank of Michigan
- John Davis (BUS: MBA 1986), President, Guidant Corporation
- John Edman, (BUS: BBA 1950, MBA 1951), Chairman (emeritus) GMAC
- George L. Farr (BUS: BBA 1963; MBA 1964), Vice Chairman (emeritus) American Express, Chairman (deceased) Muirhead Holdings
- Mark Hannah (BUS: MBA 1963), President, Tiffany Investment Corp.
- David Henwood, (BUS: BBA 1963, MBA 1964), Chief Investment Officer of Raymond James & Associates
- Thomas C. Jones, (BUS: BBA 1968, MBA 1971), President (emeritus) CIGNA Retirement & Investing. Ross School benefactor.
- John Kim (BUS: BBA 1983) - Prudential Retirement President.
- Bruce Koepfgen (BUS: BBA 1974), CEO, Oppenheimer Capital
- David Love (BUS: BBA 1967), President, Monmouth Capital Management
- Dr. Wesley G. McCain (BUS: BBA 1963), Chairman, Towneley Capital Management.
- Randall S. Meadows (BUS: MBA 1976) President Greenbrier Capital Management
- William F. Mellin (BUS: BBA 1985) General Partner Farallon Partners
- Richard B. Meyer (BUS: MBA 1968) Managing Partner, Mellon Financial Markets
- Bertram Miller (BUS: MBA 1968), Chief Investment Officer, General Motors Asset Management GMAC
- Paul C. Nagel (BUS: MBA 1947) Vice Chairman (emeritus) Household Financial Corp
- Leighton Oshima (BUS: BBA 1970), President, Prudential Investments (NYSE: PRU)
- Armand M. Pacher (BUS: BBA 1970) President Prudential Investment Advisory Co. Ltd.
- Don G. Powell (BUS: MBA 1966) President and CEO Van Kampen American Capital
- Michael Pradko (BUS: BBA 1984), CRO, Harvard Management Co., Inc.
- Sanford R. Robertson, (BUS: BBA 1953, MBA 1954), founder and Chairman of Robertson, Stephens & Company, later sold to Bank of America, currently partner in Francisco Partners. Ross School benefactor.
- Peter Root (BUS: MBA 1982), Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, Munder Capital Management
- Donald R. Shepard (BUS: BBA 1958) - President and CEO (emeritus) of Loomis Sayles & Company
- Arvind Sodhani (BUS: MBA 1978) - President of Intel Capital (NASDAQ: INTC)
- Paul Davison Tobias (BUS: MBA 1975) COO Munder Capital Management
- John R. Tozzi (BUS: MBA 1967) - President and CEO, Cambridge Investments Ltd. Ross School of Business benefactor.
- James C. Wadsworth (BUS: MBA 1971) Chief Equity Officer, Mellon Bank (NYSE: MEL)
- Kimberly Walker (BUS: MBA 1984), President, Qwest Asset Management Co.
- Sidney Zilber (BUS: BBA 1948), President, Carnegie Capital Asset Management Co.
Athletics
- Red Berenson, (BUS: BBA 1962, MBA 1966), currently head coach of the University of Michigan men's hockey team
- Bill Frieder (BUS: BBA 1964), and former Michigan basketball coach. Frieder is reputed to have a photographic memory, and to have, in consequence, been banned from Las Vegas for card-counting.
- Ron Johnson (football), (BUS: BBA 1969), Former NFL football player. Johnson was named by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF), in 2006 as the chairman, becoming the organization’s 5th chairman in 59 years.
- Robert Pelinka (BUS: BBA 1993) is an American lawyer, sports agent and former college basketball player. As a sports agent he is best known as Kobe Bryant's agent and President of SFX basketball.
- Bert Sugar, (LAW: JD 1961; BUS: MBA 1961), former publisher-editor of Ring Magazine and Boxing Illustrated.
Banking
- Dr. Richard C. Aspinwall (BUS: BBA 1954) Chief Economist, Chase Manhattan Bank
- William F. Bahl (BUS: MBA 1973) Chief Investment Officer (emeritus) Northern Trust Company (NASDAQ: NTRS). Named to board of LCA-Vision Inc. (Nasdaq: LCAV), a leading provider of laser vision correction services under the LasikPlus brand.
- Ronald C. Baldwin (BUS: MBA), named to the board of Directors of Deluxe Corporation – a $1.64 billion dollar revenue entity trading under ticker DLX on the NYSE – in 2007. Mr. Baldwin is the Vice Chairman (emeritus) of Huntington Bancshares Incorporated of Columbus, OH. Huntington is a $36 billion regional bank holding company.
- Richard Ballantine (BUS: MBA 1969), President, Bank One Corporation
- William J. Barton (BUS: BBA 1954, MBA 1958) Bank of Hawaii Chief Investment Officer and head of the Investment Strategy Committee.
- David C. Bowers (BUS: BBA 1958, MBA 1965) CFO of Park National Bank (PRK) a $5 billion bank holding company.
- Wayne Breunig (BUS: MBA 1972), Chairman, Republic Mortgage Corporation
- Patrick L. Brissiaud (BUS: MBA 1974), Head of Capital Market Operations, Banque Paribas.
- James Klay Burns (BUS: MBA 1972), Chief Operating Officer (emeritus), Swiss Bank Corp.
- Jerry Campbell (BUS: MBA 1966), Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Republic Bancorp Inc.
- David R. Carpenter (BUS: BBA 1961) President, CEO and Chairman (emeritus) of Transamerica Occidental Life Corporation.
- David Carson (BUS: BBA 1955), President and CEO of Peoples Bank
- Dana Cluckey (BUS: BBA 1982), President, Republic Bancorp Inc.
- James Miller Davidson (BUS: MBA 1960), Chairman and President, the Mainline Trust Company
- Robert Joseph Delonis (BUS: MBA 1973), Chairman, Great Lakes Bancorp.
- Darys C. Estrella (BUS: MBA 2001), CEO, Bolsa de Valores de la Republica Dominican 2008 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum
- Ronald Ferguson (BUS: MBA 1965), Chairman and CEO of General RE Corp.
- T. Bruce Fox (BUS: MBA 1971), President, Comerica Bank
- Larry Frampton (BUS: BBA 1962), Chairman, First American Bank
- J. Fulton (BUS: MBA 1975), President, Comerica Bank
- Steve Gasper (BUS: BBA 1969, MBA 1971) President and CEO, First of Michigan Corporation.
- Michael Gelband (BUS: MBA 1983), Global Head of Fixed Income at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH), a position he has held since June 2005. Previously and since 2000, Mr. Gelband served as global head of Fixed Income Liquid Markets, with responsibility for Interest Rate Products, Foreign Exchange and Securitized Products. He is a member of Lehman Brothers' Executive Committee. Mr. Gelband has been a member of Lehman Brothers' Management Committee since 2003.
- Jerry Gooding (BUS: BBA 1950), Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM)
- Edward Hamway (BUS: MBA 1967), CRO (emeritus) IBJ Schroder Bank & Trust.
- D. Densmore Hart (BUS: MBA 1959) Chairman, Bank of Kansas
- David Hickman, (BUS: BBA 1962, MBA 1963), Chairman, CEO (emeritus), Director of United Bank and Trust.
- Gregory Hooks (BUS: MBA 1976), President, Comerica Bank
- John A. Hooper (BUS: BBA 1947, MBA 1948) - Vice-Chairman (emeritus) Chase Manhattan Bank.
- Wade Hotsenpiller (BUS: MBA 1964) President and COO, Washington Federal Savings.
- Verne Istock (BUS: MBA 1963), President and CEO of First Chicago NBD Corp.; Chairman, Bank One Corporation, the nation’s 4th largest bank in 1999.
- Thomas H. Jeffs (BUS: BBA 1960, MBA 1961) Vice Chairman, First Chicago NBD Corp.
- Paul Thomas Kerins (BUS: MBA 1967) CHRO, Barnett Banks
- Timothy D. Leulitte, (BUS: MBA 1976). Chairman of The Board, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Detroit branch. President and COO (emeritus) of Penske Corporation and vice chairman (emeritus) of Detroit Diesel. Chairman, President and CFO (emeritus) of Metaldyne Corporation
- Robert Long (BUS: MBA 1965), President, First Interstate Bank
- Robert N. Lotzer (BUS: BBA 1954), Chairman of the Board, Marshfield Savings Bank
- Donald Mandich (BUS: MBA 1950), Board Member, Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA)
- Herbert H. McDade III, (BUS: MBA 1983) Appointed President of Lehman in 2008, Mr. MdDade was formerly Global Head of Equities at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (NYSE: LEH),.]], a position he had held since June 2005. Prior to his current position, he served as global head of the Fixed Income Division from 2002 to 2005 and as co-head of the Fixed Income Division from 2000 to 2002. He is a member of Lehman Brothers' Executive Committee.
- Lee Meddin, (BUS: MBA 1993) Global Head of Structured Finance, International Finance Corp., World Bank Group. Named to Treasury and Risk’s 100 Most influential people in Finance in 2006 as an ‘…artist of the deal…”. Meddin is resident investment banker, spending his time configuring financial markets in developing nations to ease foreign direct investment by corporations.
- Michael T. Monahan (BUS: MBA 1967), President and COO, Comerica Bank
- Cara Nadler (BUS: BBA 1999), President, American Express Company (NYSE: AXP)
- David Marvin Ondersma (BUS: MBA 1964) Chairman and CEO, First Michigan Bank Corp.
- Raymond Perring (BUS: MBA 1927), Chairman, Comerica Bank
- Richard M. Ravin (BUS: MBA 1966) Chairman and CEO Combined Insurance Company of America
- William Rydell (BUS: MBA 1973), President, Mellon Financial Corporation (NYSE: MEL)
- Paul G. Schaible (BUS: BBA 1951) Chairman, Chelsea State Bank
- Joseph F. Shaw (BUS: MBA 1930) Vice Chairman (emeritus) Michigan National Bank
- James G. Stewart (BUS: MAS) CFO Cigna Corp
- Standford C. Stoddard (BUS: BBA 1952) Chairman, Bank of Michigan
- Robert Walters (BUS: MBA ) - Chief Economist and Divisional Vice President of Quicken Loans Inc.
- Michael Jas Whalen (BUS: MBA 1972) President Old Kent Bank
- George Lawr Whyel (BUS: BBA 1965) Vice Chairman, Key Bank of Alaska (NYSE: KEY)
- Richard Zamojski (BUS: MBA 1975), Chairman, Michigan Heritage Bank
Billionaires
- William Davidson (BUS: BBA 1947) - Finance & entertainment billionaire. Founder of the William Davidson Institute at the Ross School of Business; Chairman of Guardian Industries, World's largest Glass Manufacturer. Owner of the Detroit Pistons (NBA), Detroit Shock (WNBA), Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL). Ross School Benefactor. Forbes 400 rank: #68 at $4.5 billion
- Bharat Desai (BUS: MBA 1981) - Co-Founder, President and CEO, Syntel Inc (NASDAQ: SYNT) a worldwide provider of information technology (IT) solutions to Global 2000 corporations. Forbes 400 rank: #286 at $1.7 billion
- Stephen M. Ross (BUS: BBA 1962) - Real Estate Developer. Provided $100 Million naming gift for Ross School of Business. Forbes 400 rank: #68 at $4.5 billion
- Kavitark Ram Shriram (BUS: MBA) Sherpalo Ventures. IHT called him "perhaps the most sought-after angel investor in Silicon Valley.”. Amazon VP Business Development (1998-99), Junglee President (1996-98). Member of the Board of Google (1998- Present). Forbes 400 rank: #271 at $1.8 billion
- Sam Wyly (BUS: MBA 1957) - Serial entrepreneur, owner of the Bonanza Restaurants chain, founder of computer companies acquired by Computer Associates and SBC Communications, as well as Datran which, together with MCI Communications and Carterphone, legally dismantled the Bell Telephone monopoly in the United States. Ross School Benefactor. Chairman, Sterling Software. Forbes 400 rank (2006): #354 at $1.1 billion
Consulting/accounting
- Kenneth L. Block (BUS: MBA 1948), Chairman of the Board (emeritus) A.T. Kearney.
- Robert Allen Center (BUS: MBA 1972), Vice Chairman, Ernst & Young
- Lionel Endsley (BUS: BBA 1965), Managing Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
- John Fox (BUS: MBA 1967) - Retired Vice Chairman and Global Director Deloitte Consulting
- Gary Hamel (BUS: MBA PhD 1990) - Co-Author The Core Competence of the Corporation. Selected "Number One Guru" by The Economist magazine in 2003
- Gregg G. Hartemayer (BUS: MBA 1976) Managing Partner, Andersen Consulting (NYSE: ACN)
- James B. Judd (BUS: MBA 1961) Managing Partner, Peat, Marwick & Mitchell
- Harvey Kapnick, (BUS: MBA 1948), CEO (emeritus/deceased) of Arthur Andersen
- Robert D. Neary (BUS: BBA 1955) Co-Chairman, Ernst & Young
- Edward M. Parks (BUS: MBA 1962) Vice Chairman Plante & Moran
- Stephen H. Staelin (BUS: MBA 1969) Managing Partner PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and until recently, was chairman of the firm's global technology practice group, joined Gateway's Board of Directors in 2006.
- Paul E. Weaver, (BUS: MBA 1972) global partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and until recently, was chairman of the firm's global technology practice group, joined Gateway's (NYSE: GTW) Board of Directors in 2006.
Educators
Energy
- Gerard M. Anderson (BUS: MBA/MPP 1988), President of DTE Energy (NYSE: DTE), a $21 billion dollar energy conglomerate.
- James H. Dodge (BUS: BBA 1962, MBA 1963), Chairman, President and CEO (emeritus) of Providence Energy Corp., including the Providence Gas Company, Rhode Island’s largest natural gas distribution company. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Vermont Gas Systems. He also held positions at Boston Gas, Eastern Enterprises, and Exxon. As a leader of the New England Gas industry, Mr. Dodge was a director of the American Gas Association, and the New England Gas Association. He was also a member of the Guild of Gas Managers and was a chairman of the New England Gas Association.
- Steven Edward Frank (BUS: MBA 1972) President and COO Southern California Edison
- William A. Jackson (BUS: MBA 1964), President Esso Brazil/Exxon.
- Larry Jerome Jones (BUS: BBA 1973), Chief Counsel (emeritus) Mobil Oil Credit Corp.
- Leonard J. Kujawa (BUS: BBA 1955 distinction, MBA 1955), Board of Directors, James River Coal Company, appointed in 2004. Over the past ten years, Mr. Kujawa has participated extensively in the restructuring and privatization of energy companies around the world. Mr. Kujawa is a Senior Advisor to Cambridge Energy Research Associates, leading their program for Chief Financial Officers and Chief Risk Officers. Mr. Kujawa currently serves on the Board of Directors of American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP) and Schweitzer-Mauduit International, Inc.
- Sid Jansma (BUS: MBA 1966) - President and CEO of Wolverine Gas and Oil. Wildcatter who found 100MM-1Bn barrel field in Utah.
- Georgia K. Ledakis (BUS: BBA 1957) Chief of Finance Branch, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC
- Jack Daniel McCarthy (BUS: BBA 1965, MBA 1967) CFO, The Williams Company (NYSE: WMB)
- John C. Morley (BUS: MBA 1958) President and CEO (emeritus) Reliance Electric
- Shalini Sarda (BUS: MBA 1999), CFO, DTE Energy Company
- Robert Baird Stephenson (BUS: MBA 1972), President and CEO Siemens Power Corp. (FWB: SIE)
- Lawrason D. Thomas (BUS: MBA 1958) Vice Chairman, Amoco Corp.
- John May VanGelder (BUS: MBA 1965) Chairman, Koch Engineering Company
Entrepreneurs
- Terence E. Adderley (BUS: BBA 1955, MBA 1956), is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB), a global provider of staffing services. Kelly is a Fortune 500 company with world headquarters in Troy, Michigan. Mr. Adderley also served on the Boards of Directors of DTE Energy Company (17 years) and First Chicago NBD Corporation (13 years).
- Dave Barger, (BUS: MBA) President and Chief Operating Officer of JetBlue (NASDAQ: JBLU). Named CEO of the company in 2007.
- Frederick A. Erb (BUS: BBA 1947) - President/owner of Erb Lumber company. Ross School benefactor. Chairman and CEO of Edgemere Enterprises.
- Stanley Frankel (AB 1963; BUS: MBA 1964). University of Michigan and Ross School Benefactor.
- Roger Frock, (BUS: MBA 1959) a founder of Federal Express (NYSE: FDX) and served as its COO and President from 1971–1981. Author of Changing the Way the World Does Business.
- Barnett Helzberg, (BUS: BBA 1956}, Chairman (emeritus) of Helzberg Diamonds, now a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.
- Lincoln M. Knorr (BUS: BBA 1949; LAW: JD 1951) Donated trust in the year 2000 to the university funded with assets of approximately $33 million. Co-founder of the Scott Equipment Co.
- Phillip D. Matthews (BUS: BBA 1960, MBA 1965), Chairman, Wolverine World Wide Inc. (NYSE: WWW), and maker of the Hush Puppy brand.
- Frederick Nederlander (BUS: BBA 1947), Chairman, Nederlander Corporation
- Robert Nederlander, Jr. (BUS: B.S. 1985; Law: JD 1989) President & CEO of the Nederlander Organization.
- Eugene B. Power (BUS: BA 1927, MBA 1930) - Founder of University Microfilms Inc. (now ProQuest). Power (K.B.E., hon.) was president of the Power Foundation and an honorary fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.
- Robert F. Stoner (BUS: BBA 1955, MBA 1958) CFO, Kelly Services (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB)
- Joel Tauber (BUS: BBA 1956, MBA 1963; LAW: JD 1959), Founder of Tauber Enterprises, donor and founder of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute at the Ross School.
Federal Reserve/FDIC/OCC/Treasury
- Edward Ettin (BUS: 1962 PhD), Deputy Director, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
- William C. Handorf (BUS: MBA 1967) - Member, Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
- Timothy D. Leulitte, (BUS: MBA 1976), Chairman of the Board, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
- Martha Seger (BUS: BBA 1954, MBA 1955, PhD 1971) - Former member Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Bank. The first woman ever appointed to a full term on the Federal Reserve Board (appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984).
- 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 (1977–1982), and managing partner of
