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By Beth Fitzgerald“Just as other major cities have major business schools, Newark has a major business school, and we will be able along with the mayor to elevate the whole area of Newark and give it the same recognition as other major cities with major business schools — Philadelphia, Boston, New York,” said Dean Michael R. Cooper. “This section of the city will be absolutely vibrant and terrific in a year or two.”
The building faces Newark with a two-story glass pavilion with a Times Square-like news ticker scrolling across the outside. Its location, near the Broad Street train station, provides easy access for students, many of whom work in New York and commute to the Rutgers Business School to earn their MBAs at night.
Professor Jeffrey Robinson said he moved into his new office during the summer. “This is a fantastic building. It’s a great place for the students and the faculty to interact, which we didn’t have before. And it’s a great place for us to bring in speakers and engage the business community.” The business school had been housed in several building on the Newark campus.
Lawrence M. Hibbert, who got his MBA in May 2009 and now runs a Newark-based IT company, BCT Partners, said “This building is beautiful — not just architecturally, but in the sense that it’s now centralizing the business activity associated with Rutgers in one place in the heart of Newark.
“Business happens through communication, through people meeting and talking, and I think this helps to centralize that activity.”
E-mail Beth Fitzgerald at bfitzgerald@njbiz.com
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