University of Michigan Ross School of Business Names Scott DeRue New Dean

The University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business recently named Scott DeRue its newest Dean, beginning July 1, 2016. He has served as faculty director of the Sanger Leadership Center, which promotes leadership education, and faculty director of the Emerging Leaders Program, an executive education program for mid-level managers. In 2014 DeRue was made associate dean for executive education, and he has served as associate dean for the Executive MBA and part-time MBA programs for the past six months.

In a recent interview, DeRue commented, “Business, in my opinion, is the most powerful influence for positive force in the world. We want our faculty and students coming up with ideas through their research, through their academics, that are going to shape the future of business in important ways.”

He stressed the importance of evolving to keep pace with change, noting, “There is a real need for innovation, both in the ideas we are creating in our research, as well as in the experiences we use to educate our students.” Ross School of Business has been a leader in the adoption of action-based learning models since the 1980s, and DeRue says, “We have multidisciplinary action projects, our undergraduates are doing consulting projects for companies as part of classes, we have investment funds that invest in real companies. The days of students coming to the Business School and listening to an expert talk at them are over … so how do we accelerate the move towards action-based learning to an even greater degree while ensuring our students continue to learn the fundamentals? We need to be coming up with new and innovative forms of action-based learning.”

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