2009

11/19/09: Tauber Leadership Speaker Series
Sanjay Ramaswamy, a partner at McKinsey & Company, gave a talk at 5:00 p.m. on November 19 in room E0540 of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. This event was free and open to the public. Video available.

11/06/09: 3rd Annual Global Operations Conference
"Redefining Operations: Strategies for a Volatile Economy" was held on Friday, November 6, 2009 at Palmer Commons.

10/14/09: Ford Executive Bruce Hettle Speaks at the Ross School
Bruce Hettle, Executive Director of Global Vehicle Operations Manufacturing Engineering at the Ford Motor Company, gave a talk on October 14at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Video available!

9/25/09: Tauber Students Optimize Supply Chain for Ametek Inc.; Estimate Annual Savings of $1.7 Million
Tauber Institute's annual Spotlight! competition challenges business and engineering students to scope and solve real operations issues. (Ross School of Business)

9/11/09: Radio host Lucy Ann Lance interviews Diana Crossley,  Al Woodliff & Professor Yavuz Bozer of the UM Tauber Institute for Global Operations (Scroll to 9/11/09 entry)
The Tauber Institute helps save companies millions through the students, administrators, and resources at the University of Michigan :: Audio. (The Lucy Ann Lance Business Insider)

9/11/09: Tauber Student Earns Diversity Scholarship
Bharat Moorthy, MS-IOE '09, is the recipient of the Thurmond B. Woodard/Dell/United Negro College Fund Corporate Scholarship valued at $10,000.

9/09/09: Tauber Institute students show how companies can save millions
Press release highlighting the tangible benefits of sponsoring a Tauber team project -- measured in the millions of dollars. (Michigan News Service)

9/18/09: Spotlight! 2009 - Team Project Showcase & Scholarship Competition
Graduate-level engineering, business, and supply-chain students from the U-M’s Tauber Institute of Global Operations teamed up this summer to help business and industry tackle some of today’s toughest challenges.  We invite you to join us for this action-packed day when the teams showcase their project results and compete for academic scholarships. The event provides an excellent opportunity to establish relationships with students and corporate partners, expand your university presence, and see many new ideas in operations and manufacturing.

7/20/09: Unleashing Ideation
U-M’s Tauber Institute for Global Operations stokes heated competition between teams of Michigan business and engineering students who are determined to reenergize U.S. and global industries. (U-M Business Engagement Center)

6/08/09: Spotlight! Team Project Showcase & Scholarship Competition
Corporate sponsors, students, and alumni join us for an action-packed day when the Innovative results from twenty-five projects will be presented at Spotlight! 2009 on Friday, September 18. Online registration is now open!

4/23/09: 2009 Teaching Innovation Prize Winners Announced
IPD Professors Bill Lovejoy and Shaun Jackson share new U-M award for bringing innovation and creativity to the classroom.

4/08/09: IOE Students win First Place in IIE Lean Student Paper Competition
Three Tauber students mastering in Industrial and Operations Engineering take top honors in event hosted by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE).

4/02/09: Tauber Leadership Forum: Ethics in the Global Marketplace
Executives from the Tauber Institute's Industry Advisory Board highlight the importance of firm ethics in the global market.

3/16/09: EGL Leads Trip to Toronto
EGL-Organized Toronto Trip is Equal Parts Fun and Function

3/10/09: 2009 Team Projects
The Tauber Institute officially announced its 2009 summer team projects at the spring kick-off dinner held on March 9 at the Michigan Union.  Twenty-six projects will be sponsored this summer by top firms around the globe.

2008

12/30/08: Tauber Leadership Speaker Series: Brian Tauber on January 27
Brian Tauber, President and CEO of Carolina Precision Plastics and C Enterprises, gave a talk at 5:15 p.m. on January 27 in room E0540 of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. The event was free and open to the public. 

12/18/08: Tauber Student Earns International Energy Award
Graduate engineer Evan Quasney takes 2nd Place at Vestas Competition in Denmark.

12/10/08: Disaster Area Personal Hygiene Station Challenges IPD Students

12/08/08: Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Shows
Products developed by nine teams of U-M students from business, engineering, and art & design were reviewed and voted on in 2 trade shows by over 1,600 people. Find out the results!

11/18/08: Bosch Executive George Kostopoulos Spoke at the Ross School
George Kostopoulos, Vice President of Sales for Robert Bosch LLC, gave a talk at 5:00 p.m. on November 18 in room W0768 of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. This event was free and open to the public. 

11/10/08: 2nd Annual Global Operations Conference on Friday, November 7, 2008
Lean, Green, and globalization vs. localization were key topics at this action-packed, one day event. Top-level speakers from industry and academia participated, including Amazon, Applied Materials, BorgWarner, Cisco, Dow, FedEx, GM, McKinsey, MIT, PRTM, PwC, Ryder, and SPSS.  The conference also featured an international case competition and career networking session.

10/03/08: Tauber Leadership Speaker Series
Al Halvorsen, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Frito-Lay, spoke at the Ross School on Thursday, October 2 at 5:00 p.m.

9/15/08: Spotlight! 2008 Results
Twenty Tauber teams presented the results of the summer projects and competed for $38,000 in scholarships. Find out which teams won!

8/22/08: Tauber Alumni-Student Networking Events
The Tauber Alumni Board (TAB) organized several exciting networking events around the country this summer, bringing together current students on-project with alumni, IAB members, and visiting faculty and Co-Directors.

3/04/08: 2008 Team Projects
The Tauber Institute officially announced its 2008 summer team projects at the spring kick-off dinner held on March 3 at the Michigan Union.  Twenty projects will be sponsored this summer by top firms around the globe.

2007

12/12/07: First Global Operations Conference touts risk-taking and innovative thinking
The Tauber Global Operations Conference was held on December 7 - 8 at the Michigan Union.

12/03/07: IPD Competition Goes Global and Green with Urban Shopping Cart Project
Article about the 2007 Integrated Product Development (IPD) trade shows.

11/16/07: Hauling Mass: Ross Class Creates "Cool" Carts for Now People
Article on the Business School website about this year's Integrated Product Development (IPD) class.

10/09/07: Integrated Product Development (IPD) Ranked Among Top Design Programs
The University of Michigan's IPD course made BusinessWeek's list of top-design schools for the second year in a row (see the table in the article linked above). Also, in a pictorial list of the top 60 D-Schools in the world, slide #53 displays the IPD tradeshow from last year with Professors Shaun Jackson and Bill Lovejoy. See: http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/10/1005_dschools/source/53.htm.

9/19/07: Sun Microsystems Executive Spoke at the Ross School
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series: Marcy Alstott, VP of Operations for the Systems Group at Sun Microsystems spoke on October 11 at 5pm at the Ross School of Business.

9/17/07: Spotlight! 2007 Results
Eighteen teams of MBA's and graduate engineering students competed for $30K in scholarship awards. Find out who won!

8/02/07: Going Lean in the Emergency Department
Tauber Institute students use lean principles to help UM Hospital improve emergency department performance.

5/07/07: Tauber Expands Campaign Commitment to More Than $4 Million
Joel Tauber continues to demonstrate his commitment to Michigan across a range of areas.

3/07/07: Target Executive Bob Kupbens Spoke at the Ross School
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series: Bob Kupbens, Vice President of Technology Services at the Target Corporation, presented a talk on March 6, 2007 at the Ross School of Business on "Talent Management in a Global Retail Industry."

1/25/07: Innovation Challenges for the 21st Century
Tauber Leadership Speaker Series: Dr. Eugene Meieran of Intel spoke at the Ross School on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. Podcast available!

1/24/07: Name Change for the Institute
TMI is now the Joel D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations.

2006

12/22/06: For the One-Armed Cook Who Has Everything
Article about this year's Integrated Product Development course on the Business School website.

12/05/06: Ford Executive spoke on "Building Your Personal Brand" at the Ross School
Tauber Institute's Leadership Speaker Series presented Susan Brennan of Ford on Monday, December 4. Podcast available!

11/15/06: Tauber Team Seeks to Give Boeing a Lift
Students recommend ways to trim the time it takes to test new Boeing 777s. Video of the team presentation available!

11/11/06: Toyota Execs Provide Insight
Ann Arbor News article: U-M students hear about inner workings of Japanese automaker.

11/01/06: At Toyota: Growth Through Localization
TMI Leadership Speaker Series: Toyota Technical Center President Ichihashi spoke at the Ross School on November 10. Podcast available!

10/31/06: Ross Students Tackle One-armed Kitchen
The annual IPD competition features products designed and manufactured by students at the University of Michigan's Ross School, College of Engineering and School of Art & Design who are enrolled in the Integrated Product Development (IPD) course.

09/26/06: Three IOE Students on winning teams in Tauber Institute Spotlight Competition 2006
IOE students, Taoufik El Khazzani, Samantha Jarema and Jens Nielsen, are members of the winning and honorable mention teams for the 2006 Tauber Institute for Global Operations Spotlight! competition.

09/15/06: Spotlight! 2006
Find out the results from this showcase of summer team projects!

4/27/06: SAB Hosts Alumni Panel Discussion
TMI's Student Advisory Board invited three alumni to provide their insight on "The Future of US Manufacturing" on March 10, 2006. Online videos of each presentation are now available!

4/07/06: Innovation: Where Invention and the Market Place Meet
Dr. Paul Horn, senior vice president and director of research at IBM Corp., spoke about "The Changing Nature of Innovation in a Services Economy" on March 27 at the Ross School.

3/14/06: Ross Students Win First Place in Case Competition
Focusing on "intellectual property protection in the global supply chain," Tauber student Damon Dance (MBA/MC '07) was part of the winning team in this case competition at Purdue on Feb. 16 and 17.

1/30/06: TMIs Take Pit Crew Challenge
Tauber student Vince Giovannetti (MBA/MC '07) summed up this team building exercise in the Monroe Street Journal. Also, check out pictures of the event at http://www.umtauber.org/photos/photo.asp?event=2006 Pit Crew Challenge.

1/09/06: From paper to product: Class takes students through cycle
University Record article highlighting the Integrated Product Development course.

2005

12/05/05: Graduate Students Experience Product Development
Write-up about the IPD course on the front page of the Monroe Street Journal.

11/16/05: Cross-Disciplinary Teams Get Real at U-M
Press release about the Integrated Product Development course.

11/14/05: Emerging Research in Manufacturing Roundtable
UM Professors spoke at AIM event on November 18 at Stanford University.

9/27/05: "Tauber Institute Awards $31,500 in Scholarships"
Press release about Spotlight! 2005.

9/19/05: Spotlight! 2005 Results
Seventeen teams vied for top honors - find out who won!

9/15/05: "Tauber Institute Hosts Professional Conference"
The TMI Alumni Board of Directors hosts the first-ever Tauber Alumni Conference

8/29/05: "Tauber Institute Meets with Dell Executives"
TMI directors and alumni review a record of success with Dell Inc.

4/04/05: "Tauber Institute: Uniqueness that Delivers" Article written by students Ken LaRose, Aram Mazmanian, and Tom Wang for a special Go Blue! Rendezvous edition of the Monroe Street Journal.

2/11/05: "Offshoring and Its Impact on US Manufacturing"
A video conference sponsored by Tauber, AIM, and LFM. A summary of the event is available here.

2004

10/20/04: "Tauber Institute Awards $24,500 in Scholarships"
Teams sponsored by Pfizer, Alcoa and McKinsey take top honors.

9/24/04: Spotlight! 2004 Results
Student teams returned from their summer projects to showcase their projects at Spotlight! 2004.

6/01/04: "Inventory Decisions in Dell's Supply Chain"
Professor Roman Kapuscinski's INFORM's article based on TMI's 1999 project with Dell, Inc.

2003

4/11/03: "Symposium makes a case for 'green' business practices"
TMI teamed with manufacturing programs at Stanford and MIT for a joint symposium on sustainability.

1999

9/27/99: "Students get best of both worlds at Tauber Institute"
Heather Blume, William Frey, and Lamar Jones are featured in The University Record.

1997

11/01/97: "Manufacturing in the spotlight - engineering internship program for business students at University of Michigan" Project advisor John E. Ettlie gives the run down on TMI team projects in this addition of Automotive Manufacturing & Production.

9/22/97: "Spotlight shines on Tauber Institute scholarship recipients"
Online article in the Monroe Street Journal highlighting the winners of Spotlight! 1997.

1995

2/20/95: "$5 million Tauber gift establishes business, engineering institute"
Originally formed in 1993, the Michigan Joint Manufacturing Initiative (MJMI) was officially renamed the Tauber Manufacturing Institute (TMI) in 1995 upon a major gift from Mr. Joel D. Tauber.

1994

9/06/94: "AlliedSignal grant supports joint program in business, engineering"
Online article in The University Record noting a major gift from AlliedSignal Inc. of Morristown, NJ to the Michigan Joint Manufacturing Initiative (MJMI).

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