Marian KrzyzowskiMarian Krzyzowski is Director of the Business and Industrial Assistance Division (BIAD), at the University of Michigan. He has degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University and a MSW degree from the University of Michigan. For the past thirty years, Mr. Krzyzowski has organized and directed University-based programs providing management and technical assistance to small and medium-sized businesses as well as to community and economic development and human services organizations.
In the early 1980s, he established and then directed the Great Lakes Trade Adjustment Assistance Center at the University of Michigan, which continues to assist mid-west manufacturers hurt by imports.
Mr. Krzyzowski has worked extensively within African American and Native American communities nationally in fostering economic development and empowerment. In the early 1990s, Mr. Krzyzowski launched the MBA Corps, an unprecedented international internship program that sent 100 Michigan MBAs to Poland and Russia as management consultants. The program was a precursor to the University of Michigan Business School's William Davidson Institute and helped shape the initial years of economic transition in Poland. As an outgrowth of the international Corps, Mr. Krzyzowski founded the Domestic Corps, a U.S. version of the internship program that has placed over 300 Michigan MBAs as management consultants in non-profit agencies and institutions, primarily servicing economically distressed communities. Placements have varied from urban organizations such as Focus: Hope, and Mexicantown Development Corp. in Detroit to the rural Navajo Nation in the Southwest and the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in the Norm and South Dakotas.
Over the past five years, Mr. Krzyzowski has led a student research team developing a 100 year history of the Chene Street neighborhood on Detroit's near east side. The team has conducted nearly 500 interviews, collected and archived over 5,000 photographs, photographed 10,000 pages of high school yearbooks, church monthlies and articles from the Detroit Polish press. A book and an interactive website are planned.
From: Resume (2007)