 Sunil Kumar,
Senior Associate Dean - Academic Affairs,
Stanford Business School Sunil Kumar, the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology and an expert in operations research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, has been appointed the next dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Kumar is currently the Stanford business school's senior associate dean for academic affairs. In this role, he oversees the school's M.B.A. program and also leads the faculty groups in marketing and organizational behaviour. His five-year term as dean at Chicago Booth will begin on Jan 1, 2011. Kumar succeeds Edward A. Snyder, who completed nine years as Chicago Booth's dean on June 30. Since 2001, Chicago Booth has doubled its number of endowed professorships and more than tripled scholarship assistance to students. At Stanford, Kumar was awarded the Finmeccanica Faculty Scholarship, named a Spence Faculty Scholar and received multiple teaching commendations. He also was named professor of the year at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad. |
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