UM business school gets fitting identity with new building

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.Read the rest of the story here.