2011 TeamMBA Award Recipients

Rollins, Iowa Win TeamMBA Honors

The Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College is the winner of GMAC’s 2011 TeamMBA institutional award. The honor recognizes universities that exemplify a commitment to social responsibility through the actions of their students and the school’s demonstrated support for those efforts.

The Crummer School requires that each student complete ten hours of community service. That commitment is considered just a starting point, though. Rollins works to ingrainan ethic of community service throughout its graduate business program as part of training students to be leaders. So successful that it tripled its goal, a school toy drive for a localhospital ended up being able to also donate toys to a second hospital and other area non-profit organizations. Rollins also has a program in which students are mentored on how to be a board member and then serve as a voting member on a non-profit board for the two years of their MBA program.

“To us, you have to be a well-rounded leader. Talented business leaders need to be community leaders,” said Associate Dean Stephen Gauthier, who accepted the award at the 2011 GMAC Annual Industry Conference in Boston.

The 2011 Team MBA Service Award, which recognizes outstanding projects in categories such as community service and sustainability, went to the Henry B. Tippie School of Management at the University of Iowa. A bone marrow drive at the school, “Be the Match,”brought in upwards of 200 bone marrow donors, more than the 140-member student body. Andentry fees from a stock trading competition raised US$500 for the college’s Habitat forHumanity home, “Tippie Build 4.”  This event pitted students against faculty and staff, primarily finance professors, to see who could get the best return on US$100,000 in simulated funds invested in stocks and options in four weeks.

Honorable mentions in this year’s TeamMBA competition went to the Kogod Business School at American University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.