At Ross, you’ll learn to lead globally diverse teams, consider the role of business in society, and build organizational cultures that foster innovation. You don’t learn these things from a book. That’s why we present action-based experiences that prepare you to define opportunities and challenges and work with a team to address them.
One of those experiences is the Leadership Crisis Challenge. In this two-day event, student teams compete in an intense and realistic simulation as corporate representatives coping with a crisis that unfolds in real time. You and your teammates assume the parts of high-ranking executives in marketing, operations, strategy, finance, and other functional areas. Working under a strict deadline, you will be required to synthesize many perspectives in order to frame and defend a course of action.
You will present that course of action to a fictional cast of stakeholders that includes a corporate board, your investors, nongovernmental organizations, and members of the media.
As a participant in the Leadership Crisis Challenge, you will be forced to act immediately, with very little information and with a team you haven't worked with before. In this way, the Leadership Crisis Challenge replicates a genuine business setting that puts together executives who may span different continents, backgrounds, and functional areas of expertise.
