Deans Counsel

On this episode of Deans Counsel, we've got all three of our moderators -- Jim Ellis, Dave Ikenberry, and Ken Kring -- onboard to speak with Umaimah Mendhro, Founder and President of One League, an organization empowering highly promising, underserved changemakers to realize global impact. Partnering with Stanford, Harvard and MIT as well as global industry leaders, One League is focused on bringi...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Ken Kring speak with Adam Goodman, Director of the Center for Leadership at Northwestern University, where he's also a Clinical Professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. With a career journey that began as a special assistant to the president of the University of Colorado, Adam has accumulated an incredible amo...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Ken Kring welcome Paul Pavlou, Dean of the University of Miami's Herbert Business School and Leonard M. Miller University Chair Professor. Recognized as one of the "World's Most Influential Scientific Minds," Paul earned a Ph. D. in Information Systems and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, and...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Dave Ikenberry welcome Marianne Lewis, Dean of the Carl H. Lindner College of Business and Professor of Management at the University of Cincinnati. She knows the College extremely well, having started there as an assistant professor in management in 1997. From there, Marianne steadily rose through the ranks, becoming associate dean for und...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Ken Kring speak with Jason Wingard, Executive Chairman of The Education Board, Inc. and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Harvard. Dr. Wingard is a globally renowned executive, with deep experience in both the corporate and non-profit sectors, specializing in the future of learning and work. He recently served as the 12th President of Te...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Dave Ikenberry speak with Tim Westerbeck, President of Eduvantis, a leading agency offering strategic advisor to higher education institutions around the world. Tim's work focuses on helping institutions grow amidst significant disruption, by defining strategies and new business models aligned with the future. He has served as a colum­nist...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Bruce Weber, Willem Kooyker Dean of the Zicklin School of Business and a professor in the Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems & Statistics at New York's Baruch College. Previously, he was the dean of the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware. He has an AB i...

On this special episode of Deans Counsel, we flip the script a bit by putting two of our hosts -- former business school deans Jim Ellis (USC) and Dave Ikenberry (Colorado), along with returning guest Allison Davis-Blake (Minnesota) -- in the guest chair to speak specifically to an important area of deanship: transitions. In this detailed and wide-ranging discussion, these three Deans Emeriti spea...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Mary Ann Scully, Dean of the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University of Maryland. Mary Ann enjoyed a successful career in banking, including co-founding Howard Bank, for which she served as CEO and Board chairperson until Howard's merger with FNB in 2022, before setting her sights on the a...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Ajay Menon, President and CEO of CSU STRATA, and former Dean of CSU's Agricultural Sciences and Business Schools. In this captivating discussion, Ajay walks us through his path from Marketing Faculty Member to Dean to his current role as Innovation Leader at STRATA, a non-profit supporting and serving the campuses...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Dave Ikenberry speak with Sherif Kamel, professor of management and dean of the School of Business at The American University in Cairo.  Sherif is also the current Board Chair of AACSB International. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is a global, nonprofit membership organization of educational institutions, busines...

On this episode of Deans Counsel (originally published on 29 March 2024), moderators Jim Ellis and Dave Ikenberry speak with Sanjay Gupta, currently a Professor of Accounting and Information Systems. Most recently, he served as the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean, the 11th Dean of the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University from 2015 to 2022. During his tenure as dean, Professor Gu...

On this episode of Deans Counsel (originally published on 6 January 2023), moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Francois Ortalo-Magne, the ninth Dean of the London Business School, a position he has held since 2017. They discuss the unique challenges and financial responsibility of being Dean and CEO of a stand-along business school; working with a fiduciary Board; discovering connec...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Anuj Mehrotra, Dean and Stephen P. Zelnak Jr. Chair, and Professor of Operations Management, at Georgia Tech University.  Prior to his time at the Scheller College of Business, Mehrotra served as the dean of the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB) since 2018. Before GWSB, Anuj was senior vice de...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Bob Bruner, University Emeritus Professor, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Business Administration and Dean Emeritus of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Bob is a giant in the field of deaning, and we're honored to have him on the show.  As the former longtime Dean of one of the top...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Gareth James, who became the John H. Harland Dean of Emory University's Goizueta Business School in July 2022. Renowned for his visionary leadership, statistical mastery, and commitment to the future of business education, James brings vast and versatile experience to the role. His collaborative nature and data-dr...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with John Clarke, the inaugural dean of the School of Business and Leadership and a professor of business at DePauw University. While DePauw is one of the older universities in the US, its School of Business was just founded in 2023.  John previously served as associate dean for academic operations at Tulane’s Freeman...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with  Sevin Yeltekin, Dean of the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester as well as a Professor of Business and Economics.  Serving as dean at Simon since July 2020, Sevin has a wealth of experience as an economics scholar, professor, higher education executive, business education leader, social impact in...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Sherif Kamel, professor of management and dean of the School of Business at The American University in Cairo. He's also the current Board Chair of AACSB International. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is a global, nonprofit membership organization of educational institutions, businesses, a...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with  Tom Steenburgh, Ralph Owen Dean and Professor of Marketing (since July 2023) at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. He's an expert in business-to-business marketing and sales, and believes in the power of collaboration between academics and business leaders to explore novel research ideas...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with  Caroline Nahas, a Senior Advisor to Korn Ferry. She has served as Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of the Los Angeles Headquarters office and North America Leader of the Consumer Practice during her career with Korn Ferry.  Caroline's primary focus is consulting and advising boards on governance, succession, ef...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with someone who doesn't represent any particular school, but whose experience will benefit deans at all schools.  Glenn Bunting is the Founder and President of G.F.BUNTING+CO, a San Francisco-based strategic communication firm. Glenn works closely with CEOs, boards of directors, Fortune 500 companies, technology and h...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T.A. Croson, the chief academic officer of the University of Minnesota multi-campus system and provost for the Twin Cities campus, with overarching responsibility for fostering the academic excellence of the educational and research missions of the University and providi...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with C.K. "Tina" Gunsalus, Director of the National Center for Principled Leadership & Research Ethics (NCPRE), Professor Emerita of Business, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  A licensed attorney, Tina has bee...

On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Jim Ellis and Dave Ikenberry speak with Mark Brostoff, most recently Assistant Dean and Director, Graduate Career Services, at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, a position he occupied for eight years, until January 2024. With over 16 years of senior-level higher education leadership experience, Mark is a career develop...