Yash P Gupta, an innovative educator who has led three prominent business schools, has been appointed the first dean of the prestigious Johns Hopkins University's new Carey Business School.
Gupta, who most recently served as dean of the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business from 2004 to 2006, was confirmed on Sunday by the Johns Hopkins board of trustees on the recommendation of President William R. Brody, the university announced on Monday.
Gupta, a native of Punjab, will begin in his new position January 1, 2008.
The Carey Business School was launched this year with a $50 million gift from trustee emeritus William Polk Carey through his W P Carey Foundation, to reinvent business education by arming students with both business skills and critical knowledge from other disciplines.
After 14 years at the helm of three prominent, established business schools, Gupta said that being involved with a startup is a great opportunity.
"This is a great opportunity to create a world-class business school in a world-class university," Gupta said.
The new school also collaborates with other Johns Hopkins divisions to offer joint master's / MBA programmes in biotechnology, nursing, information and telecommunications systems, among others. It offers an MBA in medical services management and certificate programmes in the business of medicine and business of nursing.
These programmes are the basis for the new school's focus on educating broadly prepared leaders with interdisciplinary knowledge and skills.
"We have a strong base to leverage from to create a new kind of business school," Gupta said.
The key, he said, is for the Carey Business School to form even stronger working relationships with other Johns Hopkins schools where faculty and students are hatching new ideas in science, health, technology, international relations and other fields.
"Yash is a visionary academic leader," Brody said. "He is a creative and resourceful strategic planner. He is a scholar, a teacher and he has been a builder of close and meaningful relationships, within schools, within universities, and between the university and business communities," he said.
"He has the imagination, the energy and the skill to build the Carey Business School into one of the nation's most innovative and respected," Brody said.
