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Strategies for High-Performing B-Schools:
A Seminar for Experienced Deans
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 July
12–15, 2009
Babson Park, Massachusetts USA
Hosted by:
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forum for deans, who have been in their role for three or more years, to
learn from experts and interact with like deans on a variety of topics
critical to their success and longevity as a dean. During the seminar,
participants will enhance their current plans for improving the business
school and take away important advice and tools for being a more
effective dean, as well as a renewed enthusiasm for their job.
Who Should Attend:
Business school deans and others who head higher education business units having three or more years of experience.
Seminar topics include:
- Leadership and Management of Strategic Change
- Faculty Management
- Building and Maintaining Relationships
- Financial Development
- Accreditation Continuous Improvement Process
- Experienced Deans Leadership Forum
Seminar’s Learning Objectives:
- Create your leadership development plan.
- Take away essential tools and techniques for success and longevity as a dean.
- Prioritize strategic initiatives, create methods to track progress over time
in achieving key goals, and benchmark your school's operations against those of
a selected group of peer institutions.
- Identify ways to engage all stakeholder groups to raise the school's
visibility and increase effectiveness in development and fundraising.
- Glean best practices for generating revenue, including integrating development
with marketing, developing fundraising strategies/tactics, and bringing
fundraising activities to successful closure.
- Develop strategies and management practices for recruiting and retaining the
talent needed to support your school's mission, including managing faculty up to
their individual and collective capabilities.
- Integrate these new skills into the school's continuous improvement process.
- Build contacts with deans at other schools.
Seminar Facilitators:
- C. David Billings,
associate provost
for Institutional Effectiveness, Professor of Finance and Dean
Emeritus, College of Business Administration at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville
- Yash Gupta,
inaugural dean, The
Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business
- Dan
LeClair, vice president and
chief knowledge officer, AACSB International
- Tim Mescon,
president, D. Abbott Turner College of Business, Columbus State
University
- Gail Naughton,
dean, College of
Business Administration, San Diego State University
- Andrew J. Policano,
dean, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
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