Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management has named a new dean, Provost Daniel Linzer announced today. Sally Blount, the dean of the undergraduate college and vice dean of the Stern School of Business at New York University, will assume the deanship at Kellogg beginning in July.
Blount, 48, joined the Stern faculty in 2001 as a professor of management and organizations and became dean of the undergraduate college in 2004. She was appointed by NYU’s president and provost in 2007 as their special advisor for global academic integration. An expert in the fields of negotiation and behavioral decision making, she also was a highly rated member of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty from 1992 to 2001. Before that she worked as a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.
“Dean Blount brings a remarkable combination of strong academic achievement and proven administrative experience at both the business school and university levels,” Linzer said in a statement. “She is someone who has a demonstrable record as both a scholar and as a leader in the field of global business education,” he added.
In accepting the appointment as dean, Blount returns to her alma mater. She received her Ph.D. in management and organizations from Kellogg in 1992, after completing a joint bachelor’s degree at Princeton.
“It is a great honor to be appointed to lead Kellogg,” Blount said in a statement. “The school has meant so much to me professionally and personally,” she continued, adding that she looks forward to working to keep Kellogg pushing the frontiers of global business education forward.
In her six years as dean of Stern’s undergraduate college, she set fundraising records by securing the school’s first-ever $15 million gift, increased student participation in the global semester study abroad program from 25 to 75 percent and oversaw a complete, donor-funded renovation of the undergraduate campus.
Blount will succeed Sunil Chopra, Kellogg’s IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management, who has served as interim dean since Dean Dipak Jain stepped down last September.
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