LBLE

The semester of LBLE could best be described as unique, but it was one that will have value to me as I launch my own career in the entrepreneurship world.

Thanks to the new Living Business Leadership Experience course at Michigan Ross, I get to be a part of how decisions are actually being made for a major luxury goods brand while we work on the launch of a new headphone line.

Prior to business school, I always thought “dealing with ambiguity” was a fluffy management skill and that laid-back people were the best equipped to deal with it. That’s not me. But this class has completely changed my mind.

​ Giving students the opportunity to lead real businesses as part of the Ross experience has been a vision of Scott DeRue, the Edward J. Frey Dean of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, since before he assumed his current role in 2016. This fall, that vision became a reality as MBA students and...

It started with an email — an email from the Ross MBA Program Office announcing a new course opportunity that sounded too good to turn down.