The Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business is a major metropolitan business school with approximately 3,600 undergraduate students, 600 graduate students, 70 full-time faculty, and 40 professional staff. The business school was created in 1966, ten years after the establishment of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus.  In 2006, it was renamed as the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business in recognition of distinguished business executive Sheldon B. Lubar, Chairman and Founder of Lubar & Co., Inc., who made the largest gift ever to the University, a $10 million donation in support of business student scholarships and faculty excellence.

 

The Lubar School offers a complete range of management degree programs, including the BBA (six majors), MBA (part-time, including flexible, online, and cohort formats), Executive MBA, MS in Management (four concentrations), MS in Information Technology Management, and PhD programs, as well as joint degree programs and specialized certificate programs. The School has been accredited by AACSB International since 1970, and earned supplemental AACSB accreditation for its accounting programs in 2016.

 

Lubar faculty, organized within six non-departmentalized disciplines, bring an impressive range of expertise to the School, with doctorates and advanced training from some of the country’s leading universities. The School is housed in Lubar Hall, a technologically sophisticated building that features 24 computer-integrated multimedia classrooms with a total seating capacity of more than 1,600.

 

The Lubar School of Business has high expectations for academic rigor, scholarly productivity, teaching excellence, and community outreach, as described in its Vision, Mission, and Values statements:

 

• Vision - The Lubar School of Business seeks to be a major metropolitan business school of national distinction known for superior scholarly research and academic programs.
   

• Mission - We focus on creating new business knowledge through theoretical and applied research, and providing high quality education to prepare a diverse population of students for successful business and management careers. We also leverage our relationships with the business community to create experiential learning and career opportunities for our students, enhance faculty teaching and research, and contribute to the vitality of the regional economy.
   

• Values - We value intellectual rigor, integrity in our students, faculty, and staff, and collaborations with the business community.

 

Notable Achievements

 

• In the last five years, the Lubar School has raised over $12 million in private funds, primarily supporting faculty and student excellence. This includes the recent creation of one endowed faculty position and one endowed program directorship.

 

• The Lubar School is ranked 107th in the nation for overall research productivity in leading business journals in the University of Texas at Dallas Business School Research Rankings for the period 2012-2017. In individual academic areas, the School ranks 39th for Information Technology Management research and 100th for Operations research during the same period.

 

• In the last five years, Lubar faculty have served as editors of the following journals: Academy of Management Review, Journal of Consumer Research, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Frontiers, and Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application. In addition, faculty held 71 positions in the same period as associate editors, editorial board members, or special issue editors.

 

• The school’s SAP University Competency Center is one of only two university "mega-hosting centers" for North and South America. The Center currently hosts over 150 universities, operating over 50 production SAP systems and utilizing its own private cloud environment to deliver SAP to over 100,000 students a year. In addition to teaching in Enterprise Resource Planning certificate programs, SAP expert faculty also deliver customized executive education.

 

• A Business Advisory Council composed of approximately 60 top executives provides advice and counsel to the Lubar School Dean with regard to the School’s mission and programs. The accounting area and investment management certificate program have their own advisory boards, and the IT Management and Supply Chain & Operations Management areas both have corporate membership that provide feedback and input into curricula.

 

• The Lubar School’s significant scholarship program awards approximately $1 million in scholarship awards annually.

 

• Lubar students participate and succeed in a number of local, regional, and national competitions in the areas of investment management, supply chain management, marketing, business ethics, and entrepreneurship.  The Lubar School sponsors competitions in business ethics, new ventures, and business plan development.
   

• Approximately 35,000 Lubar School alumni are active in careers that span the professional spectrum – as young professionals just starting their careers, founders of growing entrepreneurial ventures, and accomplished managers and executives.  75% of alumni remain in Wisconsin and contribute to the state’s economy.
   

Faculty Research

 

The Lubar School of Business has 70 distinguished full-time faculty known for outstanding achievements in their fields. Among these faculty are nine endowed professors; 13 named professors, scholars, and research fellows; and one Distinguished Professor.

 

Faculty actively publish in top journals and serve as editors of prestigious academic publications. Individual faculty members have also received national and international recognitions such as Fellow of the Academy of Management, Fellow of the American Psychological Society, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute.

 

Faculty expertise in the six academic areas is extensive:

 

Accounting and Taxation:  Faculty expertise in financial accounting, governmental and nonprofit accounting, audit, financial reporting, accounting for financial instruments, organizational controls, enterprise resource planning, accounting information systems, business law, individual taxation, small business taxation, and federal and state income tax regulation.

 

Finance and Managerial Economics:  Faculty expertise in corporate finance, international finance, investments, security analysis, portfolio management, asset pricing, behavioral finance, banking, corporate governance, real estate investment analysis, and managerial economics.

 

Information Technology Management:  Faculty expertise in information technology, strategy, planning, and implementation, enterprise resource planning, information privacy and security, connected systems, big data, business analytics, healthcare informatics, intelligent systems and personalization, interface design and ontology, service oriented architecture, database management, data integration, data warehousing, and data/text/social media mining.

 

Marketing:  Faculty expertise in strategic marketing, international marketing, consumer behavior, consumer perceptions, consumer choice, consumer use of technology, internet marketing, digital marketing strategy, the big data/social media interface, identity and self-concept, persuasion, corporate social responsibility, advertising, children’s consumer behavior, language and culture, and entrepreneurship.

 

Organizations and Strategic Management:  Faculty expertise in strategic management, implementation of strategy, organizational change, human resource management, mentoring, diversity, corporate governance, executive pay, shareholder empowerment and activism, organizational behavior, international business, cross-cultural organizational behavior, technology and new product development, and entrepreneurship.

 

Supply Chain, Operations Management, and Business Statistics:  Faculty expertise in operations management, operations strategy, operations productivity, supply chain management, supply chain design, production and inventory management, applied game theory, queing theory, domestic and international transportation, buyer-supplier relationships, information technology in supply chain, enterprise resource planning, statistical analysis, statistical quality control, and forecasting.
 

Select Outreach Initiatives

 

• The Supply Chain Management Institute a unique industry-University partnership examines supply chain challenges and practices within firms and across a variety of industrial sectors. Supply chain students are regularly involved in corporate projects, complementing their academic learning with real-world experience.
   

• The Center for Technology Innovation partners with the area’s leading companies in a unique business-academic alliance in the area of management technology. This reciprocal relationship offers partners access to educational resources, faculty expertise, and topic-focused workgroups.
   

• Lubar School faculty are involved in two major new University initiatives:
   

  • The Connected Systems Institute is a multidisciplinary initiative bringing together the faculty expertise of the Lubar School of Business, College of Engineering and Applied Science, and School of Information Studies in partnership with leading enterprises including Rockwell Automation, Microsoft, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, IBM, Johnson Controls, and Snap-on Tools. The first three organizations have committed more than $2.6 million to the Institute, which will facilitate collaboration by industry partners and scholars on industrial Internet of Things technologies in research, academic programming, and executive development.
     

  • The Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute is a partnership between the University, Northwestern Mutual, and Marquette University. The Institute will focus on strengthening the technology talent pipeline, promote Milwaukee as a region to attract and retain technology firms and talent, and solve problems associated with research.

 

• The Investment Management Certificate Program makes extensive use of money managers in Southeast Wisconsin’s strong investment management community, who serve as mentors and advisors to students as they manage or advise on portfolios exceeding $7 million.
   

• A pioneer in executive education in the State of Wisconsin, the Lubar School of Business offers customized management and leadership development through its Executive Programs. With up to $1 million in annual revenues, Executive Programs partners with leading corporations, including a number of Fortune 500 companies, to deliver highly-regarded management development programs.
   

• The Lubar School of Business invites members of the community to attend lectures and symposia on a variety of business topics through the Bradley Distinguished Lecture Series, Forefront Symposia Series, and other special events.

For additional information about the Lubar School, please visit https://uwm.edu/business/