April 21, 2008—The McIntire School was recently awarded a $550,000 grant from the Ernst & Young Foundation, along with $50,000 from E&Y’s Mid-Atlantic Office, as part of Ernst & Young’s second annual University Award Allocation. A total of $2.5 million will be gifted to five U.S. universities to fulfill critical needs: the University of Virginia, California State University Northridge, New York University, Southern Methodist University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst.

With the new grant, McIntire will create the Ernst & Young High Performance Teams Initiative, which will focus on integrating education, research, and practical applications across the curriculum to enhance the ability of McIntire students to lead high-performing teams. It will be rolled out at the School over the course of three years.
Emphasis will be placed on curricular innovations that include experiential opportunities for students to create and manage face-to-face, virtual, and global teams. Beginning with the pre-Commerce curriculum, students will cultivate their ability to team-build and lead across functional areas, organizations, and cultures.

“We are extremely grateful to have such a strong and future-oriented partner in Ernst & Young,” says McIntire Dean Carl Zeithaml. “This generous gift allows McIntire to develop innovative and highly integrative approaches to a fundamental challenge in conducting business in today’s highly distributed, global environment.”

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