People and Places: June 13, 2023
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 Filiz Tabak has been named the next dean of the College of Business at the University of Mary Washington (UMW) in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She comes to UMW from the College of Business and Economics at Towson University in Maryland, where she has served as a faculty member, graduate program director, department chair, and acting associate dean. With an educational background in environmental engineering, marine physics, and chemistry, she began a career with multinational chemical and consumer goods company Henkel before pursuing an education in business. Tabak takes up her new post on July 10, succeeding interim dean Ken Machande. |
 On June 1, Léon Laulusa became executive president and dean of ESCP Business School, a position he has held on an interim basis since February 28. ESCP has campuses in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, and Warsaw, as well as Turin, Italy. Laulusa has been a tenured professor at ESCP since 2005, teaching financial accounting and management control. Since 2013, he has served in a variety of leadership roles at the school: deputy academic dean in charge of international development, dean for international relations, member of the executive committee, dean for academic affairs and international relations, executive vice president in charge of academic and international affairs, and executive vice president in charge of implementing the choices and experiences strategy. |
 Marco Pagani has been named the next dean of the Williams College of Business at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Pagani currently serves as interim dean of the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at San José State University in California. Since joining San José State in 2006, Pagani has overseen its MBA programs, served as founding director of its Center for Banking and Financial Services, and managed the college’s successful efforts at AACSB re-accreditation. He also led the creation of new degrees, expanded enrollment in existing graduate programs, established partnerships with industry stakeholders, and raised significant funds for students and faculty. He officially assumes the role July 10, succeeding Tom Hayes, who will return to faculty after serving as dean for the past seven years. |
 Thomas Aicher has been named the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Currently interim dean of the school, Aicher will begin his appointment as dean on August 1. Aicher joined the university in 2018 as a member of the sport management faculty and became associate dean in July 2022. Prior to arriving in Colorado, Aicher was an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati, where he held a variety of leadership roles, including director of the sport administration program. Currently, he is the conference committee chair for the North American Society of Sport Management, an organization where he has held a number of roles since 2009. |
 Diane G. Bruce has been named the new dean of the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. Bruce comes to Bellarmine from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, where she has held various leadership positions since she joined the school in 1997. In 2016, she became the inaugural dean of Bellarmine’s School of Business and Entrepreneurship. As dean, she was responsible for developing the school’s mission, vision, and values, as well as its first strategic plan. She oversaw the curriculum redesign of all majors and minors, the creation of new minors, and the creation of a new business degree. She led the shift of all graduate programs from in-person to fully online and launched three new graduate concentrations within a newly designed MBA. Bruce replaces interim dean Daniel Petree, who served for the 2022–23 academic year following the departure of Natasha Munshi in July 2022. |
William Donoher has been selected as the new dean of the Hasan School of Business (HSB) at Colorado State University in Pueblo. Donoher currently serves as professor and chair of the department of management, marketing, and logistics at Georgia College and State University (GCSU) in Milledgeville. During his tenure at GCSU, Donoher was part of the leadership team that led the College of Business and Technology through a successful AACSB accreditation review. He oversaw 26 full- and part-time faculty members, worked to expand the sales program, led the creation of experiential learning opportunities for students, and guided the growth of an online graduate program focusing on logistics and supply chain management. He begins his new role at HSB on July 17. |
 Larry “Chip” Hunter has been appointed dean of the Fox School of Business and School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management (STHM) at Temple University in Philadelphia. He also will be a member of the management faculty. Since 2015, Hunter has been dean of the Carson College of Business at Washington State University in Pullman. During that time, the school’s faculty grew by 50 percent and the MBA program more than doubled in size. Prior to arriving at Washington State, Hunter was the senior associate dean of the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was also a faculty member. Before that, he served on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. On August 1, Hunter will replace Ron Anderson, who has led both Fox and STHM since July 2018. |
 Following Chip Hunter’s departure from Washington State, Deborah Compeau has been named to a two-year term as interim dean for the Carson College of Business. Compeau has served as the Carson College’s senior associate dean for faculty affairs and research since August 2018 and the Hubman Distinguished Professor of Information Systems since 2015. Before joining Washington State in 2015, Compeau held faculty positions in Canada at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Calgary, and Carleton University. Her research focuses on the interaction between people and information technologies in organizations, and she was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2018.
New ProgramsThis fall, the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, will launch a hybrid accelerated option for its Professional MBA degree program. The 12-12-12 format allows students to complete their MBA degrees by taking 12 courses in 12 months with just 12 Saturdays spent on Adelphi’s campus. All courses are offered online, with synchronous and asynchronous modalities. To allow opportunities for mentoring and networking, classes are small and taught by industry professionals. Applicants must have two years of business management experience and may be eligible for prior learning credit. The program also will be offered in a less compressed format that allows for completion of the degree in just under three years. CollaborationsCheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) in Beijing and ESCP Business School are launching a Dual MBA Program that focuses on technology, business model innovation, and social innovation. The program also will place an emphasis on doing business in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership countries of Australia, China, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Students will be able to study at CKGSB’s China campuses and partner institutions in Dubai, Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo, as well as ESCP’s six campuses across Europe. Graduates will receive MBA degrees from each school. The program commences in September 2024. Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in California is partnering with the university’s Doerr School of Sustainability on two initiatives focused on sustainability. The new Ecopreneurship program, which has been established through the Benioff Ecopreneur Fund, will enable students to build public, private, and nonprofit organizations designed to scale sustainability solutions. The two schools are also collaborating on the Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability, which already has launched a research conference series, a sustainability-focused visitors program, and several sustainability working groups around the world. In addition, the business school has added new sustainability-focused courses, including those that focus on climate change, climate tech, public policy, and energy markets. emlyon business school in France and École Centrale Casablanca have signed a partnership agreement to promote joint educational and cultural collaboration in Morocco. The two schools will participate in student and faculty exchanges as well as joint research projects, conferences, publications, and continuing education programs. Currently, the institutions are planning to bring the emlyon business school Executive MBA to the École Centrale campus in Casablanca for the start of the 2023–24 academic year. Grants and DonationsPurdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has received a 10 million USD commitment from Gerald and Nanette Lyles for unrestricted support of the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business. The Lyle family, which runs a pipeline construction business, has a long history of donating to the university. The contribution is the latest in a series of gifts for the reimagined Daniels School, which has received donations of more than 70 million USD from other sources. Centers and FacilitiesThe Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany is planning the Frankfurt School Real Estate Institute, which will support new research projects, additional networking activities, and the expansion of academic and executive education programs. More than 15 real estate and financial industry companies will support the new institute, which will be located within the finance department. As part of the institute, the Frankfurt School will establish a tenure-track professorship and a management practice professorship, as well as positions for postdoctoral students and assistants. Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, has announced a significant campus expansion thanks to a real estate donation from Fidelity Investments, which has a corporate campus across the street from the existing Bryant campus entrance. The school plans to build a 250,000-square-foot facility that will house the College of Business, the graduate programs office, the Executive Education and Career Accelerator, and the Women’s Leadership Institute, as well as classrooms and labs. In addition, the facility will provide room for the creation of a new entrepreneurship initiative that will take projects from ideation to the pursuit of venture capital funding. If you have news of interest to share with the business education community, please send press releases, relevant images, or other information to AACSB Insights at [email protected]. |
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