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Jason Atkins is one of two new assistant directors of admissions and financial aid at the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has been with the Johnson admissions office for six years, working extensively with its AMBA, MBA and PhD programs. Jason earned a bachelor’s in art history from Syracuse University in 2000.
Sean Burnett is the new director of the MBA and MBA for professionals programs at the Rice University Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management. Previously, Sean worked for Yum! Brands International as a senior strategic finance analyst. He also spent 10 years working in operations management and human resource development for Outback Steakhouse, Inc. Sean received his bachelor’s in advertising from The University of Texas at Austin, and earned his MBA from Rice in 2006.
Kenneth B. Dunn has been appointed to a second five-year term as dean of the Tepper School of Business. Kenneth became the eighth dean of the Tepper School in July 2002. His career has included serving as managing director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management and co-director of the U.S. Core Fixed Income and Mortgage teams. He was at Carnegie Mellon from 1979 to 1987, advancing from assistant professor of industrial administration to tenured professor of finance and economics. He earned a doctorate in industrial administration from Purdue University in 1979, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from The Ohio State University in 1974 and 1976, respectively.
Sean O. Ferguson has been named assistant dean for degree programs at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University. Before joining the Jones Graduate School of Management as MBA program director in 2005, Sean spent several years in management consulting and the software industry. He worked for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in its transformation consulting practice and then with PROS Revenue Management as the product manager for its analytics and execution software products. Before getting his Rice MBA (2001), Sean was a business line manager for the Procter & Gamble Bounty brand. He has a bachelor’s in engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Timothy Gardner is now an associate professor in human and organizational performance for the Vanderbilt Owen School of Management. He was recently at Brigham Young University. His current research interests include labor market rivalry and the organizational impact of human resource systems. Timothy received his PhD from Cornell University.
Dawn Iacobucci is the first E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Marketing at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management. She has spent the last three years at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was the John Pomerantz Professor of Marketing. A noted teacher and researcher, Dawn was a tenured marketing professor at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern prior to joining Wharton in 2004. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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