While Scott DeRue, dean of
Ross School of Business, has
flown across the globe to host
alumni gatherings known as
“Ross Talks,” on Thursday night
he only had to take the elevator to
the sixth floor of the Ross School
of Business.
Ross Talks, all of which
are
moderated
by
DeRue,
are designed to offer alumni,
current students and prospective
students a forum in which to
network and engage with panel
discussions. The Ann Arbor
event is one stop on a 18-city
lineup the Business School has
planned for the calendar year.
Tom Lewand, the CEO of
Detroit-based watch company
Shinola, joined DeRue onstage
along with Ross senior Kiva
McGhee
and
Mike
Barger,
executive director for the Office
of
Strategy
and
Academic
Innovation.
DeRue
led
a
discussion centered around a
new Business course titled Living
Business Leadership Experience.
The course is available for
students enrolled in both the
B.B.A. and M.B.A. programs
at the University and offers
an
opportunity
to
engage
with one of the seven partner
companies who have agreed
to allow students to help lead a
project. Students are split up into
functional teams emphasizing
e-commerce,
supply
chain
management,
marketing
and
finance.
DeRue
emphasized
how
the
course
was
inspired
by the school’s history of
innovation, citing how the
Business
School
pioneered
the Multidisciplinary Action
Project, a program in which
M.B.A. students spend two
months working on location
at companies across the globe,
two decades ago.
DeRue
worked
with
Lewand, who serves on the
Business School’s Board of
Advisers, to brainstorm what
a “living business” experience
could look like.
“We were at an advisory
board meeting and we had this
idea,” DeRue said. “And I said to
Tom, ‘I imagine a world where
we actually start building
businesses within the business
school in partnership with
companies where our students
actually run the business.’”
DeRue and Leward’s initial
idea came to fruition with
the
first
Living
Business
Leadership Experience class
during the Fall 2017 semester.
Now, the course is in its second
semester, and current projects
extend across industries, from
affordable housing to education
to technology development.
McGhee was a member of the
inaugural class last year, and she
has re-enrolled in the course
this semester to continue her
assignment as a Shinola team
lead, contributing to the rollout
of their headphones.
“We helped set the price
point for the headphones. So I
think we are actually listened
to, and they take our advice,
and I think there is a really
great
relationship
that
we
established,”
McGhee
said.
“Especially, we have made
changes since last semester.
A big change is that we go
down (to Detroit) much more
frequently and I think it is really
great to have that cadence and
actually feel a part of the team.”
As a lead organizer and
faculty member for the course,
Barger echoed the experience
of
McGhee,
sharing
an
observation
he’s
witnessed
among students taking the
course.
“In every single one of the 48
ten-page papers I read over the
Christmas holiday, there was a
situation where (the students)
had asked for some data or
asked for some help from
someone and (the company)
hadn’t delivered the data or the
help,” Barger said.
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