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Booth dean aims to make school more global

Sunil Kumar. (Handout)

In an interview with the website Poets & Quants, Sunil Kumar, the new dean at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, said he hopes to make the prestigious school more global and strengthen its alumni network, among other goals. Kumar also said he has put together a committee of senior faculty to assess Chicago’s global strategy and determine what, if anything, the school should do. “We want to consult widely, collect data on other schools and see how well they’re doing it,” Kumar said.

Kumar was appointed dean on July 28, 2010, and began his term on Jan. 1.

Booth, other B-Schools get cozier with consultants

From PoetsandQuants.com | Admissions consultants have become a permanent part of the business school landscape, with the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and many other B-Schools now welcoming for-hire admissions consultants. The trend is a marked change from when B-School officials spoke out against the use of consultants, and some schools explicitly forbade applicants from hiring them.

Chicago’s Booth School of Business chooses dean

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business named an engineer from Stanford University as its new dean.

The prominent business school said Wednesday that it hired Sunil Kumar, a Stanford University professor, to succeed outgoing Dean Edward Snyder.

Kumar, 42, is a professor of operations, information and technology and an associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford University Graduate School of Business in Palo Alto, Calif. He starts his five-year term Jan. 1. Get the full story »

Dean hunt goes on at Chicago Booth

From FT.com | As Ted  Snyder finishes his last day as dean of Chicago Booth, the University of Chicago says it hopes to have his replacement named by the end of July.  In the meantime, the business school’s three deputy deans — Stacey Kole, Mark Zmijewski and Richard Leftwich — will  run things.