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School Appoints Vice Dean for International Academic Affairs
In his new position as Vice Dean for International Academic
Affairs, Jitendra Singh has been thinking globally.
He envisions, for example, a network of research relationships
around the world, based in business schools or other
leading institutions and involving faculty in research
exchanges.
He also would like to see more Faculty International Seminars,
designed to expose faculty to countries about which
they have little or no knowledge. “It’s an excellent way to get
a guided tour into another region of the world,” he says, noting
that previous seminars to Japan, Malaysia and Korea have
been oversubscribed.
And he wants to link more faculty to the international
business community through an increase in international
executive education programs. “That could
mean more faculty going abroad to teach or
more foreign audiences coming to Philadelphia,”
says Singh, professor of management
and sociology. “The idea is to push the frontier
of international executive education even
more than we already are.”
Singh’s mandate, as stated by Wharton
Dean Thomas P. Gerrity, is to “more broadly
integrate globalization into research and
teaching.” For Singh, who has taught, advised
and consulted in approximately 20 countries, that means
“establishing a context where faculty — encouraged by a system
of incentives, rewards and opportunities — can create and
disseminate internationally-oriented intellectual capital.”
Singh, a native of Lucknow, India, earned an MBA from the
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and an MA and
PhD from Stanford University. He came to Wharton in 1987.
He will be building on efforts pioneered by others at the
school, including Richard Herring, vice-dean, Wharton undergraduate
division, who has expanded the number of exchange
programs for undergraduates; Janice Bellace, deputy dean,
who has established contacts with Singapore Management
University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Professors
Jerry Wind and Anthony Santomero, who have played
leadership roles on the School’s International Committee.
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