Deans

James C. Bean has been named dean of the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon and will assume leadership of the school July 1, 2004. Bean’s background includes experience as a professor, academic administrator, fund-raiser, and scholar. Bean, raised in Oregon, was formerly associate dean for academic affairs and professor of industrial and operations engineering at the University of Michigan’s College of Engineering. He was also codirector of the Joel D. Tauber Manufacturing Institute, an interdisciplinary manufacturing research and education institute jointly run by Michigan’s business and engineering colleges.

Bean is a fellow and past president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and has published nearly 50 scholarly papers dealing with that science. He also has a strong interest in Pacific Rim collaborations and currently serves as an advisory professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Bean earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and master’s and doctoral degrees in operations research from Stanford University.

R. Glenn Hubbard has been named dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Hubbard will assume leadership July 1, 2004, upon the retirement of the current dean, Meyer Feldberg. Hubbard, the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, is a faculty member in the finance and economics division of Columbia Business School and holds a joint appointment with the university’s economics department. Hubbard’s research in the areas of tax policy, monetary economics, international finance, and corporate finance has earned him international acclaim as a leader in economic theory and application. In addition to writing more than 90 scholarly articles on economics and finance, Hubbard is the author of a leading textbook on money and financial markets, Money, the Financial System, and the Economy. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Hubbard chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. After serving in that position for two years, Hubbard returned to Columbia University, where, in addition to his faculty duties, he is also codirector of Columbia Business School’s Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship.

Hubbard has taught at Northwestern University, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. In addition to his responsibilities at Columbia, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and director of the program on tax policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He is also currently a director of ADP and Ripplewood Holdings. Hubbard has been a consultant to U.S. and non-U.S. government agencies and numerous private corporations. He also served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department for tax policy. He earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University.