EPISODE · May 26, 2023 · 31 MIN
12: Jeff Brown (Illinois) on Driving Radical Curricular Change
from Deans Counsel · host David Ikenberry / James Ellis / Ken Kring
A podcast for deans and academic leadership.DEANS COUNSELJames Ellis | Moderator | Dean of the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (2007-2019)David Ikenberry | Moderator | Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado-Boulder (2011-2016)Ken Kring | Moderator | Co-Managing Director, Global Education Practice and Senior Client Partner at Korn FerryDeansCounsel.com--EPISODE 12: Jeff Brown (Illinois) on Driving Radical Curricular ChangeOn this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Dave Ikenberry and Ken Kring speak with Jeff Brown, dean since 2015 and Dean and Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business at the Gies College of Business at University of Illinois - Urbana-Chammpaign. A professor in the department of Finance, Dean Brown holds a PhD in economics from MIT, a master’s of public policy from Harvard, and a bachelor’s in economics and political science from Miami (OH) University. In this conversation, Jeff relates to Dave and Ken how becoming dean allowed him to make a long-held entrepreneurial dream real. In so doing, he learned a lot about:•Exploiting a niche for those perceiving a decline in the MBA value proposition •Anticipating in advance issues from scale •Effective leadership approaches with faculty in large transformations •Working with campus politics•Business school rankings and the iMBA Learn more about Jeff Brown.Comments/criticism/suggestions/feedback? We'd love to hear it. Drop us a note at [email protected] for listening.-Produced by Joel Davis at Analog Digital Arts
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