Haresh Gurnani
Haresh Gurnani has been named as the new dean of the College of Enterprise at Stony Brook University, helpful July 2023.
“Stony Brook’s College of Enterprise is a location of selection for higher-reaching students and top employers competing to recruit them,” stated Stony Brook University President Maurie McInnis. “Haresh’s vision for elevating educational excellence will leverage the interdisciplinary possibilities that a flagship institution uniquely provides to prepare students to succeed in a dynamic worldwide economy,”
Gurnani will join Stony Brook from Wake Forest University, exactly where he holds a number of higher-level leadership positions. He at present serves as region chair of Enterprise Analytics, Operations Management, Advertising and marketing, and Economics regions in the College of Enterprise. He is Thomas H. Davis Chair in the college, plan director of the Mathematical Enterprise Plan (joint plan amongst the College of Enterprise and Wake Forest College), and serves on the university’s committee on Network for Inclusive Leadership and Engagement.
“This is an fascinating time for the College of Enterprise and I am eager to function with incoming Dean Gurnani on the subsequent phase of the college’s improvement,” stated Carl Lejuez, provost and executive vice president, who created the announcement in an e-mail currently to the Stony Brook University neighborhood. “Haresh is ideally suited to serve as our subsequent leader, bringing a essential set of experiences and capabilities crucial for advancing the upward trajectory of the College, which includes management of enrollment development, creating business partnerships, and fundraising,”
“I am delighted to join Stony Brook University as dean of the College of Enterprise at a pivotal time in its history. The current AACSB accreditation for the College and flagship designation for the university offers a tremendous platform to additional elevate the finding out, scholarship, and improvement mission of Stony Brook,” Gurnani stated. “Business education plays a essential part in giving useful possibilities for socio-financial mobility and entrepreneurial development for students. With its wealthy heritage for inter-college collaborations, I am excited to function with colleagues to determine and create new partnerships and applications that would continue to make Stony Brook a location of selection for students in New York.”
As region chair in the College of Enterprise at Wake Forest, Gurnani has overseen strategic preparing, new plan improvement, faculty recruitment and improvement, study approach, and accreditation assessment. Below his leadership of the Mathematical Enterprise Plan, enrollment has grown 80% and new partnerships have been created with business to determine organization projects. Previously, at University of Miami, Gurnani served as chair of the Division of Management (then, the biggest division) in the College of Enterprise. He held other university service roles at Miami, which includes the University Study Council and University Graduate Council, and served as Board Member in the Center for Sophisticated Provide Chain Management (CASCM), College of Engineering, and Center for Wellness Sector Management and Policy (CHSMP).
Gurnani’s study interests are in operations and provide chain analytics, retail distribution channel style and advertising and marketing, healthcare operations and advertising and marketing, sharing economy, and sustainability. He led the Center for Retail Innovation at Wake Forest, which raised a lot more than $five million, as properly as strengthened business partnerships. He at present serves as founding division editor of Production and Operations Management and also holds editorial positions for a quantity of other premier journals in operations management and advertising and marketing.
Gurnani earned a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Indian Institute of Technologies in India, and a master’s and doctorate in operations study from Carnegie Mellon University. He also held faculty positions at University of Miami and Hong Kong University of Science and Technologies.
Gurnani succeeds Manny London, who has served as dean of the College for the final decade. Lejuez thanked London in his announcement, and highlighted quite a few outcomes for the College throughout his tenure as dean. London has been the guiding force in the College’s development and ascendance, which lately resulted in initial AACSB accreditation. The College has added quite a few applications, which includes a Master of Science in accounting or finance and MBAs in quite a few discipline regions and with totally on-line solutions. He also oversaw the hiring work to raise the faculty ranks from 15 in 2011 to today’s 40 complete-time faculty, 34 of whom have PhDs.