Our mission is to cultivate future leaders capable of addressing dynamic operations, supply chain, and technology-based challenges through a multidisciplinary, action-oriented education. We achieve this by immersing students in the two-year Tauber Institute academic program, providing leadership experiences, fostering a thriving global student community, facilitating technical skill building with leading experts, and engaging them in immersive global industry partner projects.
The Tauber Institute is a joint venture between the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the College of Engineering, working together with a wide range of industry partners to facilitate cross-disciplinary education in global operations management.
In 2012, the Institute was recognized with the first UPS George D. Smith Prize for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics.
For more than 30 years the Tauber Institute has impacted operations worldwide. Elements of the program include the LeadershipAdvantage program, facility tours, and team projects where students work on substantive issues through team-based projects to earn or save sponsoring companies millions of dollars.
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The Tauber Institute is led by two Co-Directors representing the Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and a Managing Director.
The Tauber Institute works closely with our 30-member Industry Advisory Board to ensure our programming remains on the leading edge for our students and corporate sponsors.
The Tauber Institute brings together world-class faculty from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and College of Engineering.
The Tauber Institute for Global Operations was awarded the first UPS George D. Smith Prize for effective and innovative preparation of students to be good practitioners of operations research, management science, or analytics.
The Tauber Insitute promotes industry collaboration and interdisciplinary research initiatives involving faculty and students from both Michigan Engineering and the Michigan Ross School of Business.
Joel D. Tauber is the primary benefactor of the Tauber Institute. His commitment to cross-disciplinary training for business and engineering students at the University of Michigan has allowed our organization to grow from the Michigan Joint Manufacturing Initiative created in 1993 into the Tauber Institute for Global Operations.
