Experience

At Wisconsin, you’ll experience the benefit of learning from outstanding faculty members in an $80-million facility that includes a brand-new, four-story addition specifically designed to enhance the Wisconsin MBA.

The program provides a global focus in terms of curriculum, international study trips and extensive applied projects with international components. Add the resources of a world-class university and the city of Madison— routinely ranked among the most livable and lively cities in America— and you have an experience unmatched anywhere.

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Outstanding Faculty

Our faculty are among the most accomplished scholars and teachers in the field of business education. Student satisfaction surveys of our MBA students reflect the high quality of education that our faculty provide. Among first-year Wisconsin MBA students surveyed in fall 2006, more than 94 percent expressed satisfaction with the quality of teaching in their coursework.

Finance Professor Antonio Mello (right) has earned an international reputation for his work in asset pricing, corporate finance and valuation. The former chief economist of the Central Bank of Portugal, he is past president of the European Financial Management Association. Before coming to Wisconsin, he taught at the MIT Sloan School of Management, London Business School and INSEAD, France.

Recent National Kudos

Jan Heide

Jan Heide is one of the most highly regarded —and prolific researcher in his field. The American Marketing Association has rated him the third most influential individual in the nation in terms of citations for marketing research.
Toni Whited has twice won the top award for co-authoring the best paper on corporate finance published in the Journal of Finance, in 2006 and 2007.
François Ortalo-Magné was asked to conduct a high-profile survey of global real estate investors on behalf of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate.
Aric Rindfleisch won the American Marketing Association’s Early Career Contributions Award for the extensive research accomplished early in his career.
Stephen Malpezzi was named president of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
Mason Carpenter was asked to chair the Academy of Management’s Business Policy and Strategy Consortium.
Antonio Mello is on the editorial board of European Financial Management.
Joan Schmit and Mark Browne are associate editors of the Journal of Risk and Insurance.
Tom O’Guinn’s research on the topic of brand community is among the most cited papers
in the field of economics and business according to a survey by Thomson Scientific.
Urban Wemmerlöv is the author of the fourth-most widely cited paper published in the Journal of Operations Management since 1985.

François Ortalo-Magné

A national study found our faculty

Ranked 14th for overall research in the U.S.
Ranked 2nd for Management and Human Resources research
Ranked 2nd for Marketing research

Update to an earlier study published in the Academy
of Management Journal.