Dividend, the alumni magazine of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business
at the University of Michigan, publishes twice a year, spring and fall,
and is mailed to more than 40,000 alumni and friends of the school. For
more than three decades, Dividend has strived to extend the value of a
Ross School education by informing readers of business trends, faculty
research, school initiatives and alumni activities. Dividend equips alumni
with information about the school so they can serve as ambassadors to
the wider community. To communicate with the Dividend staff, send e-mail
to
Dividend@bus.umich.edu
Spring 2007
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Includes Feature Articles and Across the Board, Intellectual
Capital, Faculty Research, Quote Unquote, Alumni at Large, Alumni
Activities and Class Notes.
Entire Issue (PDF
3.7M)
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Feature Articles
An
Integrated Life
Professor David Wooten, MBA ’87, PhD ’92, remembers Dr. Alfred L.
Edwards.
Start It Up
ZLI’s Entrepalooza 2006 inspires creative business ideas. Take a
look at what some alumni entrepreneurs are up to.
Climate Change Strategies Help Companies Stay Ahead of the Curve
Professor Andrew J. Hoffman authors the Pew Center report on
corporate strategy: Erb Institute alumni are making a difference.
Darn Sox: Does
Sarbanes-Oxley Work?
The debate continues about the efficacy of remedies enacted in the
wake of scandals at Enron and WorldCom.
Ross
Students Meet with Warren Buffet
Members of the Entrepreneur & Venture Capital Club traveled to
Omaha, Nebraska, for a taste of the wit and wisdom of the Berkshire
Hathaway CEO.
Allan D. Gilmour Honors Paul McCracken with Classroom
Nearly 50 years ago, Professor Paul M. McCracken and pupil Allan D.
Gilmour met in a U-M business school classroom. It was a meeting
neither will forget.
Intellectual Capital:
Leading Innovation: A Playbook for Growth
Jeff DeGraff’s new book articulates seven steps organizations need
to take in order to achieve and sustain an innovative culture.
The Stranger at the Water Cooler
In a new book, Jane Dutton and colleagues explore what it means to
build a working community in an era of free agents.
Faculty Research:
Managing Uncertainty
Hyun-Soo Ahn develops and analyzes mathematical models that can help
managers make smart decisions about staffing, inventory, production
and pricing.
The
“Spillover” Effects of Foreign Investing
Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell and Yuriy Gorodnichenko find that
direct foreign investment in transactional economies does not
necessarily boost the productivity of domestic firms.
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