Alumni Advisory Board The Bolz Center Alumni Advisory Board provides guidance and direction to the Bolz Center's programs and projects, including the selection of incoming students. The six-member board is elected by their peers to serve staggering three-year terms. Jim Dusso Tina Frailey Sean Malone Deborah Riese Bryan Rives Eric Salisbury Guest Lecturers The Bolz Center welcomes leading arts administration professionals from across the country as part of its on-going seminar series. Speakers share professional insights and experiences, and meet individually and in small groups with current students. Recent guests have included: Neill Archer Roan, President, The Roan Group Midori, International Violinist James L. Possin, Tax Partner, Grant Thornton Mark Nerenhausen, President & CEO, Broward Center for the Performing Arts Charles M. Gray, Economist and Co-Author: Economics of Arts and Culture Verdery Roosevelt, Executive Director, Ballet Hispanico of New York Glenn Peters, Director of Museums, Ohio Historical Society Steven Wolff, President, AMS Planning & Research Corp. Alan Brown, President, Audience Insight LLC and many others...

Faculty/Leadership

Andrew Taylor, Director
ataylor@bus.wisc.edu
[detailed activity list available on-line]
Andrew became Director of the Bolz Center for Arts Administration in September 2000, after serving as its Assistant Director for six years. An alumnus of the Bolz Center program, Andrew is published author on arts administration issues (details and downloads available on-line) and a frequent speaker at national arts conferences. He advised the American Assembly exploration of "Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property," and is an active participant in national discussions of cultural policy, management, philanthropy, and information technology in the arts. Andrew has also served as a management, technology, and communications advisor to major arts organizations such as the International Society for the Performing Arts, the League of Historic American Theatres, and American Ballet Theatre. Working with leading arts management consultant Steven Wolff, he helped develop the operating plan and budget pro formas for Madison's upcoming $205-million Overture Center for the Arts. He also authors a weblog on arts and business hosted by ArtsJournal.com, The Artful Manager.

Donald B. Hausch, Academic Director
dhausch@bus.wisc.edu
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Donald B. Hausch is a Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management. Research interests include auctions, competitive bidding, market efficiency, and the economic design of organizations; teaching interests include managerial economics, the economics of organizations and game theory.

Hausch has co-authored two books and an edited volume, and has published articles in a wide range of scholarly journals. He taught at Northwestern University, was a visiting faculty member at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business Administration, and has served as an associate editor of Management Science for ten years. Hausch received a Vilas Research Award from the University of Wisconsin and the Jerrod Service Award from the School of Business, and he has consulted for the World Bank on bankruptcy reform in Southeast Asia.

Academic Policy Committee
The following faculty provide academic and curricular oversight for the Bolz Center.

Prof. Ramon J. Aldag, Management and Human Resources
Glen A. Skillrud Family Chair in Business
Executive Director Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship

Prof. Mark A. Covaleski, Accounting and Information Systems
Robert Beyer Professor of Accounting and Information Systems

Prof. Donald B. Hausch, Operations and Information Management
Dickson-Bascom Professor of Business