Month: March 2018

Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma’s quest for knowledge yields innovations, collaborations, success

Ma cites an impressive research infrastructure, excellent faculty and support for multidisciplinary collaborations as reasons he has been successful at UW-Madison. That is coupled with his desire for his innovations to benefit society, "If the knowledge I contribute can change the world, I will be satisfied.”

New outposts from Lands’ End, Oshkosh Corp. reveal closer corporate relationships with UW–Madison

Last spring, in one of his first moves after becoming CEO of Lands’ End in Dodgeville, Jerome Griffith met with UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank to discuss ties to the university. Lands’ End CEO Jerome Griffith and UW–Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank met at Lands’ End headquarters in 2017 to discuss a closer relationship between the retailing …