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Deans
Paul Bates recently assumed the post of dean of the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Bates is experienced as a businessman and author and has held executive posts at several brokerages, including serving as head of Charles Schwab Canada. A member of the Ontario Securities Commission and an experienced author and radio show host, Bates also serves as a part-time faculty member at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Richard Edelstein has been named associate dean of MBA programs at the Eberhardt School of Business at the University of the Pacific. Edelstein has worked at the University of California, Berkeley and the European Institute for Education and Social Policy. He also served as director of international affairs for AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Edelstein earned his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific and a graduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
Selcuk Erenguc has been named associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. He will oversee the school’s MBA programs as well as its specialized master’s programs in management and international business. Erenguc also is Warrington College’s PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Decision and Information Sciences. He earned a DBA from Indiana University, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from the American University of Beirut.
Antonio Fatás has been named dean of the MBA program at INSEAD, succeeding Gabriel Hawawini at the helm of the graduate management education programs at the school, which has campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and Singapore. Fatas, a Spanish economics professor who has taught at INSEAD for 11 years, succeeds Gabriel Hawawini as dean and will serve for three-years, the traditional length of time deans of INSEAD’s MBA program remain in the position.
Fatás received a doctorate in economics from Harvard University and is particularly interested in the study of the implications of fiscal policy on business cycles. He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research in London and has worked as an external consultant for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. His teaching responsibilities at INSEAD have focused on macroeconomics.
Gerald Keim has been appointed associate dean for the full-time MBA program at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business. Previously a professor at the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, the Mays Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Keim joined the Carey School in 2001 as a professor of management.
Keim was recently recognized by the Carey School for his outstanding teaching capabilities, winning the Teets Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, which is given by the school’s students to the instructor deemed most effective in the classroom.
Known for his expertise in corporate entrepreneurship and the management of public affairs and government relations activities in corporations and associations, Keim often addresses executive audiences in the Americas and Europe.
Andrew Policano has become dean of the University of California at Irvine’s Graduate School of Management. He served as dean of the University of Wisconsin’s business school from 1991 until 2001 and is credited with raising the school’s endowment from $6 million to $100 million. Recognized across the United States as an expert on business school issues, Policano was chair of the accreditation committee of AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
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