Our Team & Partners
Students and sponsors have support throughout the engagement
Faculty & Learning Partners
Action-based learning courses are supported by a dedicated group of experts across all subject areas. Learning partners come with significant industry experience and impressive research on relevant business topics. They support students throughout their project advising experience and help optimize project outcomes for both students and sponsors.
Click the light blue boxes below to learn more about our partners.
Office of Action-Based Learning
Research Support
Student Team
Communications Faculty
Faculty Advisors
Sponsor
Faculty Advisors:
We have a team of over 100 faculty who are highly experienced both in their field and in advising action-based learning projects. They’ve collectively spent over 350 years in action-based learning advising roles. Below are some of our longstanding faculty advisors.
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Gretchen Spreitzer
Associate Dean for Corporate and Executive Relations, Management and Organizations
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Chris Mueller
Business Administration
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Jim Westphal
Strategy
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Izak Duenyas
Technology and Operations
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Rajeev Batra
Marketing
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Len Middleton
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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Hyun-Soo Ahn
Technology and Operations
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Jun Li
Technology and Operations
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Anocha Aribag
Marketing
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Chantel Lenard
Marketing
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Jeff Sinclair
Business Administration
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Roman Kapuscinski
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research, Technology and Operations
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Cheng Gao
Strategy
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Sugato Bhattacharyya
Finance
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Janet Weiss
Management and Organizations
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Nigel Melville
Technology and Operations
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John Branch
Business Administration
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MS Krishnan
Technology and Operations
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Aradhna Krishna
Marketing
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Jim Walsh
Strategy
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Damian Beil
Technology and Operations
Communication Faculty:
For our 2023-2024 projects, we had 8 business communication experts supporting students throughout their projects and on their written and oral deliverables. These learning partners teach students how to elevate their work and deliver more for sponsors.
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Lisa Pawlik
Head Communications Coach
Cindy Crawford
Cristi Landy
David Hawkins
Emma Lozon
John Morrow
Megan Anda
Nancy Kotzian
Paul Nucci
Sarah Zimmerman
Sophia Galifianakis
Susan Miller
Research Support:
Students have thorough support in both primary and secondary research due to our partnership with Kresge Library Services and expert faculty. Ten librarians and two faculty support the students in their hunt for industry reports, new trends, real-time data, and more.
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Corey Seeman
Director of the Kresge Library Services
Laura Berdish
Danguole Kviklys
Mary Catherine Moeller
Celia Ross
Joel Scheuher
Emily Schlaack
Jennifer Zimmer
Sally Ziph
Claire Myers
Primary Research Consultants:
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Christie Brown
Business Administration, Primary Research Consultant
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Katherine Burson
Marketing, Primary Research Consultant
Office of Action-Based Learning:
The Director of Industry Relations sources exciting and challenging projects on a global scale. Have a project idea or questions? Connect our Director of Industry Relations today.
The Office of Action-Based Learning exists to support the delivery of Ross’ signature project-based core courses across nine different degree programs. We are committed to delivering a high quality, high impact student learning experience in collaboration with sponsors, faculty, staff, and degree program teams.
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Megan Anda
Managing Director
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Jessica McGahey
Assistant Director
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Chris Barr
Program Manager
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Amanda Schultz
Program Manager
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Maica Mori
Operations Coordinator
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Demetris Ogburn
Travel Coordinator