Glenn Hubbard will
step down as dean
of Columbia Business
School in New York
City at the end of the
2018-2019 school
year. Hubbard joined
Columbia in 1988 and
was appointed dean
in July 2004. During
his tenure, Hubbard led initiatives to revamp the
school's core curriculum, guided the expansion of
the school's EMBA program, launched four new
master's degrees, and supported curricular innovations
such as Immersion Seminars and Master
Classes. He has raised more than US$1 billion for
the school. On June 30, he will rejoin the faculty
as the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and
Economics and as professor of economics in the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Anne Balazs is the new dean of the College of
Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo
in Ohio, the first woman to hold that position. She
most recently was interim dean at the College of
Business at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti,
where she had previously held positions ranging
from head of the department of marketing to
interim assistant vice president and director of
graduate studies.
This July, Stephen Spinelli Jr. will succeed Kerry
Healey as president of Babson College in Wellesley,
Massachusetts. Spinelli spent 14 years as a professor
and administrator at Babson. During that
time, he served as the Alan Lewis Chair in Global
Management, chair of the entrepreneurship division,
director of The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship,
and vice provost for entrepreneurship and
global management. In 2011, Spinelli was inducted
into Babson's Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame.
Frank Hodge will be the next Orin and Janet
Smith dean of the University of Washington's
Foster School of Business in Seattle. A longtime
professor at the school, Hodge has chaired the
department of accounting since 2013; in 2014,
he received the PACCAR Award for Excellence in
Teaching. Hodge replaces James Jiambalvo, who
has served since 2005 and will return to the faculty.
On July 1, Astrid Sheil will join Shenandoah
University in Winchester, Virginia, as the new dean
of the Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business. She will
be the first woman to serve in the role. Sheil is
currently the Dean's Fellow for Program Outreach
and Promotion and a tenured professor of communication
and business at California State University
San Bernardino.
Michael Johnson-Cramer has been named the
new Dean of Business and the McCallum Graduate
School at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Johnson-Cramer formerly served as the
founding director and interim dean of the Freeman
College of Management at Bucknell University in
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He officially will succeed
Donna Maria Blancero. the current interim Dean of
Business, on July l.
Dan LeClair has been appointed CEO of the Global
Business School Network (GBSN), an organization
dedicated to improving access to high-quality,
locally relevant management education for the
developing world. As CEO, LeClair will lead the
development of innovation programs to spark
inclusive and sustainable economic growth in
emerging nations. LeClair joins GBSN following
19 years at AACSB International, where he held
various leadership positions.
Joan T.A. Gabel has been named the 17th president
of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Gabel, who served as dean of the University of
Missouri's Trulaske College of Business in Columbia
for five years, most recently was executive vice
president for academic affairs and provost at the
University of South Carolina in Columbia.
Cynthia Sherman has been named head of the
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Institute, part of the Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics
at California State University Channel Islands.
Tax and auditing firm KPMG has named Tawei
David Wang its 2018 KPMG James Marwick
Professor-in-Residence. Wang is an assistant
professor at Driehaus College of Business at DePaul
University in Chicago, Illinois, and the third professor
to hold the title. The KPMG James Marwick
Professor-in-Residence program gives faculty direct
experience with the evolving technical, regulatory,
and innovation challenges affecting the audit
profession. Wang teaches audit analytics and data
mining at DePaul.