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Message from the Dean
Throughout our 40 years as a
business school — and an even
longer history providing
management education on the UWM
campus — our students and the business
community of Southeastern Wisconsin
have benefi ted from the vision our
founding faculty had for this institution
in the state’s economy and in the
individual lives of our graduates.
Today, that vision is embodied in the
Lubar School’s 65 full time faculty, 4,400
students, 22,000 alumni, and countless
partners in business.
Moving ahead to the next chapter in our
history, our vision to be a leading urban
business school remains strong.
Through the highly-regarded research
of our faculty, we stay at the forefront of
management education. Through
excellence in teaching, our faculty share
that knowledge with our students in the
classroom. And through active knowledge
partnerships with the business community,
we keep our fi nger on the pulse of
business today… and tomorrow.
Long a fertile training ground for top
executives and management professionals,
UWM’s Lubar School of Business has
continually sought out innovative ways to
enhance our programs and our reputation
— both here in Wisconsin and at the
national level.
That began 40 years ago with the formation
of a new business school in Milwaukee
devoted to serving the State’s major
economic hub. Shortly there after, we
earned accreditation from AACSB
International. In the 1970s, an MS-
Management and a PhD program joined
the BBA and MBA programs to meet the
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needs of our students and corporations.
Also in that decade, we pioneered
executive education in Wisconsin by
launching the state’s fi rst Executive MBA
Program. Twenty years ago, we began
utilizing the tools of the information age
and incorporating them into our
curriculum. And just over a decade ago,
we moved into a new business building
with state of the art classroom learning
technologies and computer labs that are
vital to our students’ education and our
faculty’s productivity.
Today, we continue to be at the cutting
edge by developing other new initiatives
that will take us to the next level of
excellence.
Earlier this year, we established the M&I
Marshall & Ilsley Center for Business
Ethics, with the support of the Marshall &
Ilsley Corporation Foundation, to help drive
issues of business ethics in our students’
education.
In the fall, we look forward to the unveiling
of the David O. Nicholas Applied Finance
Lab, a new learning laboratory that will
replicate a fi nancial trading room for
students in fi nance and other majors (see
page 3). We are grateful to David O.
Nicholas (MS-Finance ’87) for sharing
our vision for the fi nance program and
supporting this exciting new facility with
a $2.5 million gift.
Also later this year, we will launch a new
business plan competition that will
encourage students and recent alumni to
formally develop their business ideas and
move them forward to the marketplace.
La Macchia Enterprises and its Chairman
Bill La Macchia have generously donated
$250,000 in support of the competition
and the Lubar School’s entrepreneurship
program (see page 13).
So in management education — as in the
business world itself — we enjoy being
part of the perpetual cycle of innovation
and continuous improvement that moves
all of us forward.
Our thanks to you — the Lubar School’s
alumni and friends — for sharing this
special anniversary year with us, and for
working with us toward our vision to
become a leading urban business school
of national distinction — and a future
fi lled with opportunity and achievement!
V. Kanti Prasad
Dean