Office of the Dean: An Agenda for Action

A Commitment to Excellence in Business Education

Value Commitments

In pursuit of the focus areas and priority actions, the college is committed to:

• a passion for significant creativity and innovation in the lifelong intellectual and professional endeavors of faculty, students and staff in an environment of intellectual freedom;
• creating an intimate, personalized community reflecting sustained professional interaction among students and faculty and staff;
• creativity in the design and implementation of instructional programs;
• excellence in teaching, scholarship and professional/public service activity by faculty and students;
• integrity, equity, fairness and respect in interpersonal dealings among all members in the college community;
• excellence in support services for faculty, staff and students;
• accountability to our stakeholders.

In fulfilling these commitments, the college will:

• continuously learn and improve
• support lifelong personal as well as professional growth and renewal;
• achieve resource efficiencies in program delivery;
• recruit and retain the most talented students, faculty and staff from around the world;
• promote diversity in culture and perspective;
• allocate resources differentially based on performance and contribution to programmatic needs;
• sustain a physical environment supportive of the mission of the college;
• maintain a technology base consistent with objectives;
• embrace and support risk taking in research and teaching;
• engage in benchmarking against best in class peers;
• create a culture of high ethical standards and an understanding of the importance of ethical issues in decision-making.

In its teaching programs, the college is committed to:

• providing world class undergraduate, masters, doctoral level, and executive education programs;
• anticipating and exceeding the needs of students and external constituencies;
• fostering broad-based management education with flexibility for functional specialization;
• enhancing students' communication, leadership and analytical skills; their intellectual, ethical, and personal growth; and their sensitivity to issues of diversity;
• preparing students for successful long-term career development;
• linking degree programs and innovative executive education activities;
• using innovative faculty scholarship and staff initiatives as the basis for distinctiveness;
• capitalizing on the intellectual and programmatic resources of the university.

In its program of faculty research, the college is committed to a portfolio of quality scholarship that has impact within academic and practitioner communities by:

• actively nurturing and rewarding creative scholarship of quality and impact;
• fostering research that focuses on applications as well as theoretical issues;
• clustering research activity to promote academic and corporate recognition;
• integrating doctoral education with research programs of faculty, departments, and centers;
• encouraging scholarly interaction that leads to a transfer of knowledge to both academic and practitioner communities;
• providing flexibility in faculty assignments to support concentrated periods of scholarly activity.