Spring Break
Adminstration selects first business dean
Issue date: 11/1/07
- Page 1 of 2 next >
Hopkins hopes to add business to the list of its world-class programs with the addition of its newest faculty member, Yash Gupta, as dean of the Carey Business School. President Brody announced Gupta's appointment to the position on Oct. 29, after what selection committee member Edgar Roulac called "an incredible and power-packed process because of the short, eight-month time frame."
Gupta takes his post on Jan. 1, and he is currently determining what will be involved in the plan to become a "world-class" business school. "First, we have to develop a strategic plan," Gupta said. "We want to develop a world-class business school, but we need to define what 'world class' means to us."
In order to develop the school's strategic plan, Gupta plans to spend his first month at Hopkins speaking with as many people as possible. This will help him delineate the school's strategic plan.
"Once we have defined that strategic plan, we will determine how much faculty we need, what professors to hire and what kind of students the school should foster," Gupta said. "We want our students to come from around the world."
Gupta predicts that after five or six months, the plan will start to develop and answer questions such as how much experience, and what kind of background students and faculty of the school should possess. According to Gupta, the plan will also consider what kind of graduate and undergraduate education the school should provide.
Currently the only program available to undergraduates through the Carey Business School is a minor in entrepreneurship and management, but Gupta would like to talk to people of different affiliations of the school before determining precisely how to expand.
It is Gupta's willingness to cooperate with and listen to others on a very interdepartmental campus that helped make him such an attractive candidate. Selection committee member Nichols said that Gupta "really impressed all of us with his positive energy."
Gupta takes his post on Jan. 1, and he is currently determining what will be involved in the plan to become a "world-class" business school. "First, we have to develop a strategic plan," Gupta said. "We want to develop a world-class business school, but we need to define what 'world class' means to us."
In order to develop the school's strategic plan, Gupta plans to spend his first month at Hopkins speaking with as many people as possible. This will help him delineate the school's strategic plan.
"Once we have defined that strategic plan, we will determine how much faculty we need, what professors to hire and what kind of students the school should foster," Gupta said. "We want our students to come from around the world."
Gupta predicts that after five or six months, the plan will start to develop and answer questions such as how much experience, and what kind of background students and faculty of the school should possess. According to Gupta, the plan will also consider what kind of graduate and undergraduate education the school should provide.
Currently the only program available to undergraduates through the Carey Business School is a minor in entrepreneurship and management, but Gupta would like to talk to people of different affiliations of the school before determining precisely how to expand.
It is Gupta's willingness to cooperate with and listen to others on a very interdepartmental campus that helped make him such an attractive candidate. Selection committee member Nichols said that Gupta "really impressed all of us with his positive energy."
Be the first to comment on this story