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Accolades & Awards
David Brophy, director of the Center for Venture Capital
and Private Equity Finance, was honored with the Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Ann Arbor-based Michigan
Venture Capital Association. In 1972 Brophy, who also is an
associate professor of finance, founded the Michigan Growth
Capital Symposium to help diversify the state’s economy.
The Ross School’s center for Positive organizational
Scholarship received the 2010 Martin Trailblazer Award
from the organization and management theory division
of the Academy of Management. The award is presented
to scholars who have “taken a leadership role in facilitating
new scholarship by opening up a new line of thinking or
inquiry and by opening avenues for future work. A recipient
of the Trailblazer Award is a boundary spanner and
conversation starter.”
cindy Schipani received the 2010 Sarah Goddard Power
Award from the Academic Women’s Caucus. Power was
a U-M Regent and strong advocate for women within the
University. Schipani is the Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate
Professor of Business Administration; professor of business
law; and chair of law, history, and communication. As a
researcher, she has collaborated on work that correlates
World Health Organization violence statistics and United
Nations rankings of women’s meaningful involvement in the
economy. At the University, she has been active in women’s
issues, serving on the President’s Advisory Commission for
Women’s Issues from 1999-2005 and the Women’s Advisory
Research and Mentoring Committee at the Ross School.
Tom Schriber gave the “Titan of Simulation” keynote address
at the 2009 Winter Simulation Conference held in Austin,
Texas, in December. His topic was “Simulation for the Masses:
Spreadsheet-Based Monte Carlo Simulation.” Schriber is a
professor of business information technology and has taught
simulation in the MBA Program for many years (counting
among his former students current Ross faculty members
Tom Gladwin, Michael Gordon, Tom Kinnear, and
Dennis Severance). Schriber holds the INFORMS Simulation
Society’s Lifetime Professional Achievement Award.
Kathleen Sutcliffe recently received a grant from the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation for the study “The Medicalization
of Patient Safety,” co-authored with Robert Wears, M.D. She
and Wears are among just 200 individuals who have received
this award since 1992. Sutcliffe is the associate dean for faculty
development and research at Ross. She also is the Gilbert and
Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration and a
professor of management and organizations.
claes Fornell honored in Sweden
the stockholm school of
economics awarded Professor
Claes Fornell an honorary
doctorate at its centennial
celebration in september before
king carl xvi gustaf and Queen
professor Claes Fornell
silvia of sweden. they hosted
1,200 guests at the Blue hall of stockholm city hall, the venue that
hosts the nobel Prize dinner each year.
fornell is the Donald c. cook Professor of Business administration
and director of the national Quality Research center. in addition,
he is the director of the american customer satisfaction index, a
national economic indicator of customer evaluations of the quality
of products and services.
“i have greatly appreciated the honorary degrees i have been
awarded from universities in other countries, but for me, nothing
compared to the honor of receiving this recognition from the leading
school in my home country — at its 100-year anniversary in front of
the king and Queen,” says fornell.
From left: David Frey Jr., MBA ’07, Edward Frey Jr., Dean robert Dolan, Hilda Frey, John Frey,
Katrine Frey, David Frey, Laura Frey, Judith Frey, and Eleonora Frey.
Frey Family Celebrates Deanship
in 2008 the family of Edward J. Frey, AB ’32, established the
edward J. frey Deanship of Business. Dean Robert Dolan is the
first to hold the title. in october 2009 members of the frey family
gathered to celebrate edward’s memory and commemorate the
endowment, with gifts now valued at $5 million.
Based in grand Rapids, mich., until his death in 1988, edward frey
for decades helmed the union Bank and trust co. (now JPmorgan
chase) founded by his father in 1918. he was an early innovator in the
banking, finance, and insurance sectors. in 1974 edward and his wife,
frances, established the frey foundation, one of michigan’s largest
private family foundations, with grants now aggregating $100 million.
“ed frey loved the world of business, and he was a champion, advocate,
and enforcer of the highest ethical standards,” says his son, David,
chairman and trustee of the frey foundation. throughout his life,
says David, edward remained the “quintessential son of michigan.”
he was laid to rest in a navy blazer with a maize and blue tie.
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