8:30 am - 10:30 am

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

No registration required. No charge.

Career Resources for Alumni
Walk-By Hours in the Winter Garden

Stop by the Office of Career Development tables to talk to Alumni Career Services staff, gather information on Ross Alumni Career Resources, gain some quick tips, or make an appointment to talk with a staff member via phone in the future.
 

$75 per person

Advance registration required.

Executive Education Business Conference

“Leading Change and Innovation: Turning Fear and Uncertainty into

Opportunity and Success”

U of M Ross School of Business and its Executive Education Department invite

you to a leading edge business conference focused on what is top of mind today,

surviving and thriving in the current economic climate. Join engaging and interactive

sessions with our world-renowned faculty, each leading specialty sessions with and

for you. These three special lectures integrate to create a path forward, leading

you from uncertainty to opportunity and success.

Casual/business casual attire suggested. 

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Coffee, Bagels/ Pastries

Weiser Dining Room
 Room 1450

Welcome, Jeff DeGraff "Leading Innovation in Troubled

Times"
Room 1210

When things are tough all around, innovation isn’t your best friend; it’s your only friend. Making things better and new is the name of the growth game. But how do you jump-start your firm when money is scarce, morale is low, and time is short? Professor DeGraff will introduce you to a revolutionary way to get more innovation out of what you already have. Connect the dots between your strategy, your competencies, your innovation playbook, and, ultimately, your people. He will spell out which enterprise innovation practices work in troubling times and how to get everyone everywhere to make innovation happen every day.

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Gautam Ahuja "Strategic Perspectives for Negotiating

Business Downturns"
Room 1210

When faced with an economic contraction and the associated downturn in your business, you must step back to adopt a strategic perspective and then take focused action. But how do you start, how do you get it right, and how do you execute? In this session with Professor Ahuja, you will learn an effective process for navigating through and beyond the downturn. It starts with triage: Assess and diagnose the situation so you can “stop the bleeding.” Next, enter the strategy rebuilding phase: Recognize the threats the downturn poses to your strategy, and develop a set of actions to counter them. Finally, look to the future through strategic repositioning: Occupy the most effective market position through a variety of strategic actions that exploit emerging opportunities.

Lunch
Weiser Dining Room
Room 1450

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

Robert Quinn "Deep Change: Finding Your Orientation

in a Crisis and Beyond"
Room 1210

When crisis calls, the most powerful leaders do not base their actions on platitudes and past successes but rather on their deepest values and instincts. They enter into what Professor Quinn calls the “fundamental state of leadership” to create the deep change necessary to lead their organizations through complexity and into a meaningful future.In this session, you will explore how to tap into that capability by shifting along four dimensions: from comfort-centered to results-centered, from externally directed to internally directed, from self-focused to other-focused, and from internally closed to externally open. You will discover the actions associated with each of these dimension shifts and how they yield high-performance outcomes for you and your organization.

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

No charge

Advance registration required.

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

No charge

Advance registration required.

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

$15 per person

Advance registration required.

7:00 pm - 10:30pm

$50 per person

Advance registration required.

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

$25 per person

Advance registration required.

Dean's Welcome and 2009 Annual Reunion Lecture
Blau Auditorium

"Making It Up As I Go Along: Satire In An Absurd World," featuring political satirist Mo Rocca
 

Mo Rocca was a contributor to NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno and currently is CBS host of The Tomorrow Show and essayist with Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. He is known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. A regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!. He is the author of All the President’s Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over, a tour-de-force of investigative journalism that blows the lid off of a long-held Washington secret: Presidential pets are more than just photo-ops. A former correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Rocca is also a frequent commentator for All Things Considered and Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Tours of the new building (ongoing)

In January 2009, the Ross School's new facility opened for classes. Take this

special opportunity to tour the new 270,000-square-foot structure, designed by

New York City architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC. This building stands

six stories tall at its L-shaped center and three stories high around its perimeter along

Tappan and Hill streets. View the gallery and read more about the building at www.bus.umich.edu/newhome.

Class of 1999 and 2004 Cocktail Hour
Blau Auditorium Lobby

Includes hors d'oeuvres, beer, and wine. Come gather with your classmates at this

happy hour reserved just for the two anniversary classes. Get together to make

your plans for the night out on the town! Casual attire suggested.

Class of 1984 Dinner
Faculty Lounge, 6th Floor

Celebrate your 25th reunion with a strolling supper, remarks by Dean Dolan, live

music, and a performance by the Friars, an ensemble of the U-M Men's Glee Club.

Relive your Michigan memories and network with classmates and faculty members.

Business attire suggested.

Class of 1959 and Emeritus Dinner
Colloquium, 6th floor

All alumni who graduated from the Ross School of Business 50 or more years

ago and all emeritus (retired) faculty of the Ross School and their guests are

invited to join us as we commemorate the 50th Reunion of the class of 1959.

After a cocktail reception, a welcome by the dean, class photo and a served

dinner, we will initiate the class of 1959 into the emeritus community with a

special induction ceremony.

*Registration for the Class of 1959 and their guests to attend Reunion Weekend

activities is being handled through the University of Michigan’s Office of

Reunions & Reunion Giving. Members of the Class of 1959 and Emeritus

alumni should have received a separate Reunion invitation, with registration

materials, in May.

In addition to the following Business School-specific event, the University of

Michigan’s Office of Reunions & Reunion Giving will offer other various Reunion

Weekend events for the Class of 1959 and Emeritus classes (all details in their

separate Reunion invitation).