Dean’s Message

This is an exciting time for the Wisconsin School of Business. A major addition to our physical facility underway. (See related story). This May, we graduated the first class of our totally reengineered Wisconsin MBA program designed around highly focused career specializations.

With the new MBA strategy in place, we can begin to focus on other major opportunities—such as upgrading our already outstanding undergraduate business program and strengthening our commitment to scholarship.

We’re already creating new leadership experiences for undergraduates. Our goal is to build a cohesive undergraduate business student community and to help students connect learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom. We are confident that we can transfer many of the experiences used to enhance the MBA program to make our stellar undergraduate program even stronger.

We are also committed to providing more research support for our faculty to ensure that we maintain our hard-earned reputation for thought leadership.

Another important priority will be determining how the UW-Madison School of Business can do its part in the economic development of Madison and of Wisconsin  by helping the city and the state adapt to the emerging, knowledge-based economy.

We are bringing the same energy and commitment to strengthen these areas and other areas as we brought to our highly successful MBA initiative.

I welcome your input.

Michael Knetter
Dean