Deans

Richard Coughlan has been named associate dean for graduate and executive programs at the Robins School of Business, University of Richmond. A member of the management faculty at Richmond since 1998, Coughlan has taught courses on business ethics and negotiation.

Prior to entering academia, Coughlan worked in hospitality management. In his academic career, he has taught ethical decision making to professionals in a variety of industries, including hospitality, software, real estate, and law enforcement. Coughlan has published research in management and psychology journals and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Business Ethics. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and the Society for Business Ethics and currently serves on the executive committee of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making. He earned a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of Virginia and MS, MBA, and PhD degrees from the University of Arizona.

Daniel Garza has been promoted to assistant dean of the MBA program at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He has been at McCombs since 2001, serving as director of marketing and diversity initiatives and as director of admissions. Prior to that, Garza worked in marketing at Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Ziff-Davis. He earned an undergraduate business degree at McCombs and an MBA from the Stern School at New York University.

Stephen Lawrence has been named interim dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He will take over the post vacated by the former dean, Steven Manaster, for the period of one year. Lawrence was formerly the associate dean for academic programs at the Leeds School of Business, faculty director of the Leeds School’s Center for Business Education, and associate professor of operations management. He also has served Leeds School as chair of the management division, interim director of the MBA program, and director of the operations management and information systems doctoral programs.

Before joining the Leeds School faculty in 1993, Lawrence taught in MBA, doctoral, and executive programs at Washington University in St. Louis, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He also worked in industry for eight years in operations management, quality management, and sales engineering. For five of those years, he was vice president of operations for Teetor Casting, an entrepreneurial metal-casting firm in Illinois. Lawrence received his doctorate in operations management from Carnegie Mellon University.