| Philanthropy |
Academia can be can be as a square as an alternate universe. In the realm of development work, the chief educational officers and administrators are critical to a program’s philanthropy. Unfortunately, they do not always feel the same level of commitment to their development responsibilities as we development officers might like. This session looks at how development professionals can effectively manage the relationship with Deans and other faculty members that can be highly effective advocates for the case to donors.
Dr. Yash Gupta
Dean, Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Yash Gupta was appointed dean of the USC Marshall School of Business in July 2004 and holds the Robert R. Dockson Dean’s Chair in Business Administration.
Before becoming dean at the Marshall School, he was dean of the University of Washington Business School where he improved the school’s rankings in both Business Week and US News & World Report. He established a variety of new programs and increased fundraising by 600 percent.
His areas of expertise include operations strategy, quality management, production scheduling and information systems strategy.
From 1992 to 1999, before joining UW, Gupta was dean and professor of management in the College of Business Administration of the University of Colorado at Denver. In 1996 Gupta was ranked as the number one production and operations management scholar in the country in terms contributions made to the field of Production and Operations Management by the Journal of Operations Management, March 1996.
From 1988 to 1992, Gupta was the Frazier Family Professor at the University of Louisville School of Business, as well as a senior research fellow at the Telecommunications Research Center.
He earned his B.S. in engineering from Punjab University (India) in 1973, an M.A. in production management from Brunel University of West London in 1974 and a doctorate in management sciences from the University of Bradford (England) in 1976.
