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 Mitchell P. Koza, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Management
Mitchell P. Koza was dean of the Rutgers School of
Business from November, 2005 (beginning with a long distance consulting
relationship from France) to January, 2009. During his time as dean, he
worked closely with RSBC faculty, staff, students, and alumni to produce
strategic growth in enrollment, programs, and new faculty, launching a
comprehensive four-year undergraduate program and enhancing programs at
local Community Colleges; creating a human resource management major;
and sharpening the MBA program's focus on serving working professionals
who wish
to attend graduate school on a part-time basis. The Rutgers IMED has
delivered executive programs for such major corporations as Cisco
Systems, Campbell Soup, Lockheed Martin, and Graybar. He established a
strategic alliance with Audencia, the Nantes School of Management in
France, and successfully extended outreach programs, including BizEd,
the Quarterly Business Outlook (now viewable on Comcast on Demand), the
Executive Breakfast Series, and student internships. In addition, he
welcomed new members to the Executive Advisory Committee, while also
increasing and improving involvement of the business leaders in the
academic and co-curricular life of the school. His development work
resulted in several major individual gifts; the Family Business Forum
Consortium has attracted significant corporate sponsorship.
He has delivered
keynote addresses and been recognized with awards or notations for
several papers. He has been elected to the Quality of Markets Committee
of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and the Board of Directors of the
Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey; served as committee member for
the Best Paper Prize for the Strategic Management Society and NJBIZ
awards to the New Jersey business community; and served on three
reaccreditation visiting committees for the AACSB. He writes and
delivers a weekly business report for WHYY-FM, the National Public Radio
affiliate in Philadelphia. Koza is Founding Co-Chair of the Strategic
Management Society Interest Group on Global Strategy, and has served as
a member of the Board of Directors of the European Group for
Organizational Studies (EGOS).
Prior to joining
Rutgers School of Business, Koza spent eighteen years as an expatriate.
Most recently, he was Professor of International Strategy and Director
General of INSEAD-Cedep, in Fontainebleau, France. He spent 4 years at
Cranfield School of Management where he held the Chair in International
Strategy and Directed the Centre for International Business, and,
previously, eleven years at INSEAD as a faculty member. Prior to his
move to Europe he held appointments at UCLA, Yale, and Chicago.
Koza’s award
winning research, cases, and commentary have explored issues of
producing cooperation in international strategic management, and have
been published in the major academic and practitioner outlets,
including, but not limited to, the Strategic Management Journal,
Organization Science, The Financial Times, and Les Echos, and have been
translated into eight languages. He is noted as a leading scholar in
Who’s Who in Management Sciences. Koza was educated at the University
of Chicago (PH.D.), Harvard University (ED.M.) and Queens College, CUNY
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