Hopkins business dean to join SDP Telecom as CEO
This is a little surprising. Hopkins Carey Business School Dean Yash Gupta is leaving at the end of the year to join the private sector. Gupta arrived in 2008.
UPDATE: Apparently Gupta was a candidate recently to be provost at the University of Iowa, where he was questioned about his tendency not to stay in jobs for very long. See the Daily Iowan story here.
Here is the memo that went out to faculty today:
The establishment of the Carey Business School in 2007 marked a landmark moment in the proud history of business and management education at Johns Hopkins, a history that dates back to the early years of the 20th century.Since then, the new school has accomplished so much, with the recruitment of a core group of full-time research faculty, new headquarters in Baltimore's burgeoning Harbor East business district and the establishment of the university's first MBA program designed for full-time students. Those developments brought the school to yet another milestone last summer, when the Carey School's faculty and staff moved into their new quarters in the Legg-Mason Tower and welcomed the first class in the school's Global MBA program. The Carey Business School has quickly become a vital component of The Johns Hopkins University.
I give all due credit for this significant progress to the first dean of the Carey School, Yash P. Gupta, who has been a tireless evangelist for the school and brought us to this important moment.
During his tenure, Dean Gupta has successfully recruited a core group of exceptional scholars and business practitioners to our faculty, hired a new administrative team, developed the
policies and procedures necessary to get the school running administratively, and established the successful “Leaders + Legends” speaker series. He established an Academic Board and recruited a group of truly outstanding leaders to serve on the school’s Corporate Advisory Board and Board of Overseers. Dean Gupta also worked actively to promote the school in the media and complete development of the Carey School as a brand. Thanks to his determination, the charter class of the Global MBA program includes almost 90 students. The Class of 2013 appears equally promising in terms of quality, diversity and size.With these impressive achievements to boast of, the Carey School is now poised to enter the next phase of its history, one of focused growth and development. Having built the strong foundation that he came to Johns Hopkins to do, Dean Gupta has decided to step down as dean and leave the university at the end of this academic year to join SDP Telecom Inc. as its chief executive officer.
Provost Minor and I will soon initiate a national search for a new dean with the passion and vision to advance the important work that Yash Gupta has done as the inaugural dean of the Carey Business School. I am pleased to share that Executive Vice Dean Phillip Phan has agreed to serve as interim dean of the Carey Business School effective July 1, 2011.
We will, of course, continue to work closely with Dean Gupta for the remainder of the academic year, but we would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his outstanding efforts and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.
Sincerely,
Ronald J. Daniels
Comments
Didn't get a job as Provost of Iowa apparently, but CEO is hardly a constellation prize.
Nice job jumping left and right from jobs at USC to JHU.
CEO is just another bandwagon stop to President of some university for (formerly) Dean Gupta of the Carey business school
Posted by: LOL | May 16, 2011 2:00 PM