{"id":4093,"date":"2010-08-10T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2010-08-10T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T20:11:44","slug":"chicago-booth-announces-its-new-dean-sunil-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/chicago-booth-announces-its-new-dean-sunil-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Booth Announces its New Dean, Sunil Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's been a season of change for deans at top business schools in the U.S. Last week Sunil Kumar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/Stanford.aspx\">Stanford GSB<\/a>'s Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, was named the new dean of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/chicago.aspx\">Chicago Booth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Robert Zimmer, University of Chicago president, \"[Kumar] brings the right blend of vision, entrepreneurial energy and academic leadership that will build on the contributions of Chicago Booth at a time of tremendous momentum and achievement.\"<\/p>\n<p>Kumar, who has been on the Stanford faculty since 1996, will be replacing Edward A. Snyder who had been leading Booth since 2001. Snyder has been appointed the new dean of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/mba\/YaleSOM.aspx\">Yale SOM<\/a> and will begin his post in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Booth professor Harry L. Davis will resume the position of interim dean until Kumar takes office in January 2011.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <em>Businessweek<\/em>, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bschools\/blogs\/mba_admissions\/archives\/2010\/07\/sunil_kumar_named_dean_at_chicago_booth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sunil Kumar Named Dean at Chicago Booth<\/a>\")<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want our news sent directly to your inbox? <\/strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx?utm_campaign=BlogContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=SubscribeBlog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Subscribe to the Accepted Admissions Almanac by  clicking here!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/MBA\/Default.aspx?utm_campaign=MBAContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=MBAIcon\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object3\/947\/54\/s8255073883_9880.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260090948492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span>Accepted.com<\/a> ~ Helping You Write Your Best<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a season of change for deans at top business schools in the U.S. Last week Sunil Kumar, Stanford GSB&#8217;s Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, was named the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[41,362,39,48,46],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-school-life","category-current-events","tag-chicago","tag-dean","tag-mba-admissions","tag-stanford-gsb","tag-yale-som","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}