BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Dan R. Dalton, a management professor who led the Indiana University Kelley School of Business as dean during a period of extraordinary transformation, from from 1997 to 2004, died on July 24. Below is a message from Pat Hopkins, dean and the James R. Hodge Chair of Excellence, to Kelley faculty and… Read more »
As I begin my role as dean of the Kelley School of Business, I am humbled and energized to work alongside our remarkable community of stakeholders toward our collective mission. I arrived in Bloomington as a newly minted PhD in August 1995, with little knowledge of our school (which wasn’t even called Kelley then), our… Read more »
More than 48 years ago in late 1975, I arrived in Bloomington from Great Britain to teach for six months at the IU School of Business, as the Kelley School was known in those days. While I wasn’t sure what a Hoosier was, and I didn’t understand why everyone in Indiana was obsessed with basketball,… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Ash Soni, dean of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, joined a delegation of 10 business school deans who met on June 15 with legislative and business leaders and economists in Washington, D.C. It was the first time that deans of the nation’s top business schools had come together collectively for such… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Ash Soni, who has served as interim dean of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business since July 2022, will continue as dean of the school for the next two years. He will lead in collaboration with Patrick E. Hopkins and Julie Manning Magid, who have been appointed as vice deans for… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Robert Thomas, an administrator, professor, and scholar in diversity management, will join the Indiana University Kelley School of Business as its inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Thomas, assistant dean of diversity and inclusion and Darden Restaurants Professor of Diversity Management at the University of Florida Warrington College of… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University Bloomington’s Provost and Executive Vice President Rahul Shrivastav has appointed a committee to identify candidates for the position of dean at IU’s top-ranked Kelley School of Business. The Kelley School has been a leader in American business education since 1920, preparing students to lead organizations, start companies, develop new products… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Full-Time MBA Program at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business solidly remained among Bloomberg Businessweek’s top 25, moving up to 22nd overall, third in the Big Ten and seventh among public institutions. Bloomberg Businessweek evaluated 117 MBA programs worldwide and ranked 81 of them this year, based on responses to… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Ash Soni, executive associate dean for academic programs at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, has been named interim dean of the school starting Aug. 1. Soni joined the school in 1981. He is a professor of operations and decision technologies and the school’s SungKyunKwan Professor, with expertise in enterprise systems… Read more »
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Idalene “Idie” Kesner announced on April 8 that she will step down as dean of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, effective July 31, and return to teaching. Kesner, an alumna who earned her MBA and doctorate at Kelley, became dean in May 2013 after holding several leadership roles at the… Read more »