Haresh Gurnani has been named as the brand new dean of the Faculty of Enterprise at Stony Brook College, efficient July 2023.
“Stony Brook’s Faculty of Enterprise is a vacation spot of selection for high-achieving college students and main employers competing to recruit them,” mentioned Stony Brook College President Maurie McInnis. “Haresh’s imaginative and prescient for elevating instructional excellence will leverage the interdisciplinary alternatives {that a} flagship establishment uniquely affords to arrange college students to achieve a dynamic world economic system.”
Gurnani will be a part of Stony Brook from Wake Forest College, the place he holds a number of high-level management positions. He presently serves as space chair of Enterprise Analytics, Operations Administration, Advertising and Economics areas within the Faculty of Enterprise. He’s Thomas H. Davis Chair within the college, program director of the Mathematical Enterprise Program (joint program between the Faculty of Enterprise and Wake Forest Faculty), and serves on the college’s committee on Community for Inclusive Management and Engagement.
“That is an thrilling time for the Faculty of Enterprise, and I’m desirous to work with incoming Dean Gurnani on the subsequent section of the school’s growth,” mentioned Carl Lejuez, provost and government vp, who made the announcement in an e-mail at this time to the Stony Brook College neighborhood. “Haresh is ideally suited to function our subsequent chief, bringing a key set of experiences and expertise important for advancing the upward trajectory of the Faculty, together with administration of enrollment development, constructing business partnerships, and fundraising.”
“I’m delighted to affix Stony Brook College as dean of the Faculty of Enterprise at a pivotal time in its historical past. The latest AACSB accreditation for the Faculty and flagship designation for the college gives an amazing platform to additional elevate the training, scholarship, and growth mission of Stony Brook,” Gurnani mentioned. “Enterprise schooling performs a key function in offering priceless alternatives for socio-economic mobility and entrepreneurial development for college kids. With its wealthy heritage for inter-college collaborations, I’m excited to work with colleagues to establish and develop new partnerships and packages that will proceed to make Stony Brook a vacation spot of selection for college kids in New York.”
As space chair within the Faculty of Enterprise at Wake Forest, Gurnani has overseen strategic planning, new program growth, college recruitment and growth, analysis technique, and accreditation overview. Beneath his management of the Mathematical Enterprise Program, enrollment has grown 80 p.c and new partnerships have been developed with business to establish firm initiatives. Beforehand, at College of Miami, Gurnani served as chair of the Division of Administration (then, the biggest division) within the Faculty of Enterprise. He held different college service roles at Miami, together with the College Analysis Council and College Graduate Council, and served as board member within the Middle for Superior Provide Chain Administration, Faculty of Engineering, and Middle for Well being Sector Administration and Coverage.
Gurnani’s analysis pursuits are in operations and provide chain analytics, retail distribution channel design and advertising and marketing, healthcare operations and advertising and marketing, sharing economic system, and sustainability. He led the Middle for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest, which raised greater than $5 million, in addition to strengthened business partnerships. He presently serves as founding division editor of Manufacturing and Operations Administration and in addition holds editorial positions for a variety of different premier journals in operations administration and advertising and marketing.
Gurnani earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Expertise in India, and a grasp’s and doctorate in operations analysis from Carnegie Mellon College. He additionally held college positions at College of Miami and Hong Kong College of Science and Expertise.
Gurnani succeeds Manny London, who has served as dean of the Faculty for the final decade. Lejuez thanked London in his announcement, and highlighted a number of outcomes for the Faculty throughout his tenure as dean. London has been the guiding pressure within the Faculty’s development and ascendance, which not too long ago resulted in preliminary AACSB accreditation. The Faculty has added a number of packages, together with a grasp of science in accounting or finance and MBAs in a number of self-discipline areas and with totally on-line choices. He additionally oversaw the hiring effort to extend the school ranks from 15 in 2011 to at this time’s 40 full-time college, 34 of whom have PhDs.
