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New Dean Appointed at Ross School of Business

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Ross names one of its most popular professors as their new dean.

There’s a new dean at one top business schools, the deans of two other top-ranked MBA programs talk about what it takes to get in and succeed, and NFL players are given an opportunity to learn business skills for their post-football lives. Catch all the trending stories for future business leaders.

Ross’s newest dean

It turns out that top-ranked University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business didn’t have to look very hard to find a replacement for its retiring dean, Alison Davis-Blake. Scott DeRue, one of the most popular Ross professors—also recently recognized as one of America’s outstanding professors under 40—will helm the business school this summer.  “At the end of the day, I think it’s the experiences we are creating for students. And what we can promise them in terms of these transformational student experiences, really drawing on our commitment to the platform on action-based learning, world-class faculty, recruiters that are highly committed to the school and love our students,” said DeRue. (Poets & Quants)

A tale of two deans

Columbia Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business are two of the world’s greatest MBA programs, with highly competitive admissions processes, top GMAT scores, globally recognized professors, and graduates who secure lucrative jobs and exciting careers. As the dean of CBS, Glenn Hubbard says, “We look for people who have their own way of being successful. They have a very entrepreneurial way of thinking. If you look at our most successful graduates, they are never cookie-cutter. They never fit a pattern. They are always on their own career trajectories and have their own personal ambitions.” Garth Saloner, Stanford GSB’s dean, notes that he’s been seeing similarly unpredictable outcomes, “What we’re finding in the data is that more of our students are going into technology companies than are going into consulting, which is a shift in the last 10 to 20 years.” (Nikei Asian Review)

Cornell Johnson receives $25M

A successful alumnus has just donated $25M to Cornell University’s Johnson School of Business, making it one of the school’s largest gifts the school has ever received. High-yield bond investor David Breazzano’s donation will help the school of business construct a new state of the art classroom center and establish the Breazzano Family Faculty Excellence Fund. Breazzano commented: “Johnson helped me discover my passion and aptitude, then helped me get my first job, and I did well at it because of my education. That solid foundation has helped me throughout my career. So I have a sense of gratitude. And I always knew I wanted to give back when I was in a position to do so.”
(Syrcause.com)

MBA entrepreneurs

The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in today’s MBA students. In fact, many are so excited about starting their own businesses that they are launching startups while still in school. To grow their businesses, many of these busy students are taking to social media. Facebook reported 40 million business pages in April 2015; by December, that number had grown to 50 million. Meet Zarana Shah, a student at the George Washington University School of Business who launched two businesses—Get Junked, which sells home-made jewelry, and Goodness Gracious, which sells desserts. (BusinessBecause)

Life after football

How long does the career of a successful football player (“football” to Americans; “American football” to everyone else) typically last? The answer is usually only a few years, or in the case of a select few, as many as 15 years. But the reality is that most players spend their adults lives doing something other than tackling, blocking, throwing the pigskin, and thrilling fans of all ages. One startling statistic shows that more than one in ten former football players file for bankruptcy after being in retirement for a decade. Knowing this to be the case, the National Football League has partnered with Ross Business School to give current player the skills they need to succeed after the stadium lights go out. “We’re trying to figure out how to take the bit of wealth we have now and make it last, grow long term and try not to get stuck in working 8-10 hours a day for the rest of our young lives,” says Eric Kush, who currently plays for the Los Angeles Rams. (The Financial Times)

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