Robert E.
Mittelstaedt: 13
Years as Vice
Dean of Executive
Education
Robert E. Mittelstaedt has
resigned from his position
as vice dean of the Wharton
School's executive education
division, a role he has held
for 13 years. Mittelstaedt
left his post to become dean
of the W. P. Carey School of
Business at Arizona State
University, effective July 1.
During his tenure at
Wharton, Mittelstaedt was
responsible for building the
Aresty Institute of Executive
Education into one of the
largest organizations of its
type in the world, with
more than 220 programs
for 8, 000 to 10, 000 executives annually. He was instrumental in founding the
Directors' Institute in 1993, the Wharton Electronic
Commerce Forum in 1996,
and Knowledge@Wharton
in 1999. During 1996-99, he headed Wharton's
external affairs division,
including fund raising,
public relations, communications and alumni affairs
functions. He also led the
startup of Wharton West as
the initiative's interim vice
dean during 2000-2001.
While at Wharton, he also
served as associate director
or director of a number of
programs including: the
Leonard Davis Institute
of Health Economics;
the National Health Care
Management Center; the
Wharton Applied Research
Center; and the Wharton
Innovation Center.
Dean Patrick Harker
said, "I am deeply grateful
to Bob for his outstanding work at Wharton. His
appointment to the W. P.
Carey deanship is much
deserved recognition of his
abilities as a leader and his
commitment to business
education. We wish him the
very best of success in his
new position."
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