Sunil Kumar appointed dean, Booth School of Business
29 Jul 2010
University of Chicago's prestigious Booth School of Business has appointed Sunil Kumar, senior associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford business school, as its next dean.
He will take over the post on 1 January 2011 for a five-year term.
Kumar succeeds Edward A. Snyder, who completed nine years as Chicago Booth's dean on 30 June.
The Indian American is a professor of operations, information and technology and an expert in operations research at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Kumar said about his appointment, ''I share the school's passion for the pursuit of ideas that hold up under careful scrutiny. I look forward to helping strengthen and enhance Booth's outstanding research environment and its rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education.''
As associate dean at Stanford, Kumar oversees the school's MBA programme and also leads the faculty groups in marketing and organisational behavior.
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