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Shop til you stop
Consumers, flush with money they did not spend last year, want to splurge in 2021. So what are the present realities for the second holiday shopping season affected by the pandemic? Michigan Ross experts weigh in.
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‘I’m Richard, your son’
New York-based news anchor Richard Lui, MBA ’01, risked losing his career to care for his elderly father in San Francisco. But then his boss, a fellow’ long-distance caregiver,’ demonstrated the tremendous power of a compassionate workplace.
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U-M student raises 30K to build school in Malawi
The children from a small rural village in Malawi will have a new school building by the end of this year, thanks to a University of Michigan student.
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Let’s make a deal
Future business magnate and 1913 grad George Mason arrived at U-M with an apple in hand and a penchant for negotiation. With one transaction freshman year, he set off a chain of lucrative deals that landed him a Stutz Bearcat.
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Be the smartest person in the room
Two Ross graduates identify an editorial niche and publish competing e-pubs to curate and deliver ‘digestible’ business news to overstimulated professionals.
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Precious mettle
Coin collector Patrick Heller, BBA ’74, once held a rare doubloon worth $7.4 million. So how does he appraise the coin commemorating the U.S./North Korea summit?
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Boosting consumption
New U-M study concludes: Transfer wealth from the top 20 percent of U.S. earners to the bottom 80 percent and watch consumption rise.
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Michigan Ross students run real businesses — for class
Ross MBA and BBA students are working with three major firms to start, run, and vet businesses.
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Stephen Ross donates $50M more to U-M
Funds will support career-development programs, action-based learning experiences, and recruitment of junior faculty.