SUMMER 2023 | 41 SCAN TO VIEW VIDEO FROM THE BUSINESS INNOVATION BUILDING’S OPEN HOUSE. of the business school at Lehigh and expand the reach of Lehigh itself,” Lehigh President Joseph J. Helble ’82 said at the grand opening. He said the work of the College of Business is core to the effort to “be even more interdisciplinary, to enhance our students’ education and prepare them for the world.” The building has a number of special features, including a conference room table made from campus trees toppled in 2012’s Hurricane Sandy (in part thanks to Brian Slocum, managing director of Wilbur Powerhouse and design labs). There is also a web-based scheduling system to reserve breakout rooms; the rooms have digital panels outside each room displaying the reservation schedule. A 13-and-a-half-footlong video wall in the Tauck Family Lobby contains an interactive timeline of Lehigh Business, stories about business students and faculty research, as well as biographies and photo galleries of the Lehigh Business LUminaries. “When I started this job in July of 2014, one of my most pressing goals was to transform Lehigh’s College of Business into a world-class business school,” Phillips says. “We’ve made a lot of progress in the last nine years, and this Lehigh Business Innovation Building is another giant leap in the right direction.” L Student study areas inside the building were designed to facilitate student learning. Left: The design of the Business Innovation Building's classrooms make it easy for students to collaborate.
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