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Dean of the School of Management
Position Profile

2008

Invitation

The University at Buffalo (UB) of the State University of New York (SUNY) invites applications and nominations for the position of dean of the School of Management. UB is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) and one of the nation's premier centers for academic excellence. It is the most comprehensive, research-intensive university in the SUNY system, which is the nation's largest system of public higher education, offering programs at sixty-four geographically dispersed institutions. UB is one of the region’s largest employers, with an economic impact that is rivaled by few other institutions. It is also a cultural asset and a trainer of much of the region’s professional talent.

Founded in 1923, the University at Buffalo School of Management (SOM) is building an international reputation for the quality of its management education and the impact of its faculty scholarship. The school is home to nearly 2,500 undergraduate majors, 250 full-time MBA students, and approximately 150 MS and PhD students. In addition, the school offers Executive MBA programs in Buffalo, China, and Singapore. There are 66 full-time faculty, 50 of whom hold tenure-track appointments. These include four named professorships, a SUNY Distinguished Professor, and two SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors.

The School of Management operates out of facilities on the North (Amherst) Campus of the university. Its primary venue is the Jacobs Management Center (81,071 net square feet), completed in 1985. The Jacobs Center houses all faculty and some staff offices, five classrooms, a computer lab, and miscellaneous other space. The attached Alfiero Student Center (25,905 net square feet) was completed in 2005. It houses the school’s student-services offices, three classrooms, student-organization offices, breakout rooms, a meeting room, an Internet café, and lounge areas.

Dean’s Roles and Responsibilities

The dean of the School of Management has primary responsibility to:

• Provide vision in charting a course and, in collaboration with faculty, staff, and university administration, implement a strategic plan to promote and advance the School of Management's national and international reputation, guided by the highest standards of scholarly, professional, and educational excellence.
• Provide vision, enterprise, and stewardship in developing, improving and optimizing the financial, physical, and human resources of the School of Management, especially through development efforts.
• Provide inspiring leadership, responsible oversight, and consensus building within the school to effectively serve the research, teaching, and service missions of the School of Management and UB.
• Act as an effective spokesperson for the School of Management to the various stakeholders and communities of the school within and outside the university.
• Enhance the School of Management's relationships with alumni, business leaders, government officials, the local community, AACSB, and other important external stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with faculty and university administration to implement the UB 2020 academic strategic strengths.
• Provide intellectual, professional, and ethical leadership for UB and the Buffalo Niagara region in the field of management scholarship and education.
• Promote a vibrant business community within the Buffalo Niagara region.

Candidate Qualifications

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Intellectual and Professional Leadership: a scholarly record worthy of appointment as a tenured full professor in the School of Management or, alternatively, experience and stature as a business leader with a thorough understanding of, and an appreciation for, the unique culture and values of a research university; the ability to inspire and lead an accomplished faculty toward further excellence; a desire to promote innovative and inter-disciplinary management scholarship within the school and with other units on campus; a commitment to the school’s central role in a public research university; the ability to promote the highest ethical standards and quality in management education; the ability to oversee the preparation of students for professional practice of the highest ethical quality and standards; and the ability to engage leaders of the management profession, locally, nationally, and internationally.
• Institutional Leadership: the capacity to think strategically and to communicate persuasively the mission and the aspirational goals of the School of Management to its various stakeholders; strong management skills, including the commitment and capability to develop the school resources through fundraising and other initiatives and to allocate them strategically; the ability to collaborate with the school’s faculty and the university leadership in developing and implementing strategic plans for the school; the ability to build consensus within the faculty in the school with respect to the strategic plans of the school and their execution; the ability to inspire and encourage the faculty’s active participation in governing itself; and the ability to enhance the scholarly and educational reputation of the school.
• External Leadership: the ability to enhance the School of Management's relationships with outside constituencies, including alumni, business leaders, AACSB, government officials, the local community, and other important external stakeholders; the ability to work in partnership with these constituencies in advancing the strategic goals of the school; the ability to secure financial and other support from these partners; and the ability to partner with these various constituencies and engage in socially responsible initiatives to promote a vibrant business and social community within the region.
• Commitment to a Global Perspective: the ability to envision and develop innovative ideas for global research and programmatic initiatives; and the ability to lead the school’s various stakeholders in the implementation of global initiatives within the school.
• Commitment to Diversity: The ability and commitment to recruit a diverse faculty, staff and student body within the School of Management and to foster their development and participation in the life of the institution.
• Commitment to Excellence: A record of consistent and persistent achievement and innovation in every aspect of a scholarly and professional career is the best evidence of the vision, enterprise, and energy, expected of the School of Management’s next dean.

The School of Management

The Strategy

The school’s vision is to be “internationally recognized for the impact of our scholarship and management programs.” To achieve this vision, the school has developed both an academic strategy and a resource strategy. The academic strategy focuses on increasing the national and international prominence of faculty scholarship and the school’s full-time MBA program. While the school continues to offer a comprehensive MBA degree, Finance and Global Services and Supply Management (GSSM) will be the featured MBA options. GSSM focuses on the management of globally dispersed information, service, logistics and supply networks. The academic strategy is designed to maintain an active and influential research faculty with selective investments in areas of strategic prominence, including those that link to the university’s UB 2020 strategic themes.

Much like the university’s strategic aspirations, the successful implementation of the school’s academic strategy is premised on the successful implementation of its resource strategy. The school has identified a portfolio of opportunities to create a more competitive resource base for our academic strategy. The most significant of these are based on 1) growing the school’s enrollment, and faculty, as part of the university’s larger expansion plans, and 2) fundraising by the school from internal and external sources in conjunction with the university.

The Faculty

The school includes 66 full-time faculty, of whom 50 hold tenure track appointments. Approximately 60 percent of the tenure-track faculty members are tenured. The school’s tenure-track faculty maintain an active and influential research program and serve as editors and editorial board members on more than 20 journals. Included in this number is a SUNY Distinguished Professor, a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and multiple recipients of UB’s Exceptional Scholar Awards.

While faculty research interests are diverse, the school has identified three areas of strategic focus:

• Futures in Finance: The focus is to extend financial research beyond traditional core areas to include newly emerging areas of quantitative finance. This initiative builds upon faculty's expertise in the principles and techniques of financial decision-making, valuation, and capital markets.
• Global Services and Supply Management: This initiative focuses on developing innovative business strategies and creating unique customer value propositions through global value networks, aligning globally-distributed information capital of a firm with its business processes, outsourcing and offshoring of manufacturing and IT services, and managing global supply and operations networks.
• Information Assurance: This research involves developing methods for the improvement of the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of digital information used in a variety of industries. Through this initiative, faculty and students conduct research to help create safe and secure digital environments for businesses in the 21st century.

Faculty members have been successful in obtaining external research funding from agencies including the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense, Air Force Research Labs, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Programs

The school’s flagship program is the full-time day MBA. Historically, the program has enrolled 150-160 students in each class, but beginning in Fall 2007 that number was reduced to less than 100. This greater selectivity resulted in improved quality in terms of test scores (GMATs increased from 595 to 619) and leadership potential. The MBA program has been ranked as one of the world's best business schools for the last seven years by Wall Street Journal, and is regularly rated (Forbes, BusinessWeek) among the leading programs for “return on investment.”

The school has a large and growing undergraduate enrollment which has increased by 25 percent in the last 5 years to nearly 2,500. It is the highest rated undergraduate business program (U.S. News & World Report) among all SUNY schools. Approximately 20 percent are enrolled in the registered accounting program, with Finance and Marketing being the two most heavily enrolled management majors. Six of the core courses are included in the school’s innovative Digital Access program that allows students to attend class “anytime anywhere.” Digital Access captures a class on digital video as it is delivered, and the resulting Windows Media Player file is immediately posted to the course portal, utilizing a web-based class management system such as Blackboard.

The PhD program is a vital part of the school’s intellectual life. The program currently enrolls approximately 50 students with about half of that number supported by research assistantships. The program is organized at the department level with considerable emphasis on close faculty mentoring. The goal of the PhD program is to produce graduates who can be placed at leading research universities. In recent years these placements have included the University of Wisconsin, Cornell University, University of Rochester, Rutgers, Arizona State, Michigan State, Florida State, University of Michigan, Indiana University and University of Maryland.

The school has also recently developed several successful MS programs. The two most prominent programs are in Management Information Systems and Finance. The Finance program includes both a Financial Management track and a Financial Engineering track. These programs each enroll 30-40 students.

The school also offers a number of part-time and full-time professional MBA (PMBA) programs, both locally and in Asia. In Buffalo, our part-time PMBA program enrolls approximately 200 students. Students normally complete the program in 3 years. The school also has a two year Executive MBA program that enrolls 25-35 students each year.

Finally, the school was one of the first US schools to offer a US MBA degree in China. That began a global presence for the school in Asia, and this global programmatic thrust continues in China, Singapore, and most recently in Bangalore, India with an MS program. These programs have established a strong reputation in Asia for both the school and the university, and facilitated the university’s efforts to establish a presence in Singapore, with the School of Management offering an undergraduate degree in business as part of that effort.

Structure and Governance

The dean’s office, which exercises primary executive and budgetary control, includes one senior associate dean (with faculty rank), one associate dean for academic programs, and three associate deans (with faculty rank) for research, executive programs, and international programs. Senior professional staff who hold the rank of assistant dean direct undergraduate programs, graduate programs, executive programs, resource management, information technology, development, career services, alumni relations, communications, and corporate and community relations. In total there are 52 full-time staff members in the school.

The academic enterprise is organized into six departments, as follows:

• Accounting and Law
• Finance and Managerial Economics
• Management Science and Systems
• Marketing
• Operations Management and Strategy
• Organization and Human Resources

Departments are generally responsible for recruiting and evaluating faculty, for designing and delivering core courses in the academic programs as determined by the faculty, and for developing and maintaining specialized programs of study either standing alone (e.g., MS and PhD programs) or as concentrations within the BS and MBA programs. The undergraduate, MBA, MS, and PhD programs are coordinated and overseen by school-wide faculty committees, each headed by a chair.

The dean is advised on all major initiatives by a policy committee comprising the department chairs, the program chairs, the associate deans (non-voting), two elected faculty members (at least one non-tenured), and two students. The policy committee meets approximately monthly. The dean is also counseled by the dean’s advisory council, described below.

Dean’s Advisory Council

The purpose of the dean’s advisory council (DAC) is to assist the School of Management in the pursuit of its strategic goals. The methods of assistance include both advice and advocacy. The Council is composed of thirty individuals, thirteen from the Western New York area and the remainder from outside the local area. Twenty-four of the members hold UB School of Management degrees. DAC members are recruited from the senior-management level of their organizations, with several being CEOs. Each member serves on the DAC for a renewable three-year term. The DAC operates with an external chair and a vice chair who serves as chair-elect.

The University at Buffalo

UB 2020: Our Vision for the Future

The University at Buffalo has been educating leaders across three centuries. But today, our clear focus is on the future. Across the university, we have embarked on an ambitious transformation that seeks to make UB one of the very top public research universities in the nation. Our university community is actively engaged in rethinking what it means to be a model public research university for the twenty-first century. This process, known as UB 2020, seeks to make UB one of the most distinctive and distinguished schools in the nation – to become, in essence, the public university for a borderless world.

UB 2020 is our vision for achieving sustained academic excellence, and our roadmap for getting there. This far-reaching commitment to excellence is the foundation for the many diverse intellectual, cultural, and societal contributions that the University at Buffalo makes every day to its students and faculty, to its staff, to its alumni, volunteers, donors, friends and corporate and academic partners in Western New York, throughout the state and nation, and around the world.

UB is firmly committed to engaged public service and civic engagement both regionally and globally — a commitment that we see as central to our mission as a public research university. Locally, UB is actively engaged in speeding the transition into a knowledge-based economy for Western New York, through a plan centered on strategically aligning and maximizing the university’s intellectual capital, economic fuel, and critical resources with the community. And from the very beginning of our 160-year history, we have been an international community of scholars, serving a truly global community. With more than 4,200 international students representing 100 nations around the world, UB now ranks #13 among 2,700 accredited U.S. universities and colleges in terms of international enrollment. UB also enjoys a strong international presence, maintaining affiliation agreements with some 60 universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania.

Over the next decade-and-a-half, UB will significantly increase the number of faculty and students on campus, including plans for an increase of approximately 750 full-time faculty and a student body increase from 27,000 to 37,000. Overall, these plans represent an approximately 40% increase in the size of our campus community over the next 15 years. To plan for this growth, and to further advance the broader goals of UB 2020, UB has launched an extensive campus planning process, a comprehensive framework that will guide our physical development in support of our plans for institutional growth. A key objective of this master planning process is developing a campus infrastructure appropriate to establishing the university as the locus for groundbreaking research and discovery, as well as grounding it within the framework of its surrounding neighborhoods. The physical campus planning we are undertaking now is laying the foundation for the truly great university we are becoming.

UB Today

UB is located in the Buffalo-Niagara region of the state, which is New York’s largest upstate metropolitan area. The University at Buffalo currently enrolls over 28,000 students and offers 350 degree programs (baccalaureate, master’s, doctoral, and first professional). Home to over 130 research centers and institutes, UB’s research expenditures for FY 2005-2006 totaled almost $298 million. With an annual budget of over $1 billion from a variety of sources, UB has a total workforce of over 6,100 full-time employees, including approximately 1,600 full-time faculty members. The university libraries hold 3.5 million volumes in seven general and specialized units; their exceptionally wide array of electronic/digital information resources has been recognized nationally.

UB’s total economic impact on the state and region is estimated at approximately $1.5 billion annually. The university is one of Western New York’s largest employers. Its strong regional presence extends through multiple satellite sites in Buffalo and locations across the region. The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), an extension of the School of Management, assists regional economic development through a variety of executive education programs.

In addition to the School of Management, academic programs are offered by the College of Arts and Sciences; the schools of Architecture and Planning, Education, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Law, Social Work, Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Dental Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Public Health and Health Professions. These academic units are located on the North and South Campuses of UB.

Set in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, UB’s North Campus is home to the university’s core academic programs and is the main undergraduate campus. Opened in 1973, the North Campus comprises almost 1,200 acres and 135 buildings, including a multi-venue Center for the Arts, a substantial athletics and recreation complex, ten residence halls and five apartment-style student housing villages built since 1998. The North Campus houses over 6,000 students.

The UB Academic Health Sciences Center is located at the South Campus. This campus is composed of 154 acres with 52 buildings and is located within the city of Buffalo, three miles from the North Campus. This campus is home to most of UB’s health-related schools as well as the UB Health Sciences Library, the school of Architecture and Planning, and five residence halls housing 1,350 students. The UB Anderson Art Gallery is located near the South Campus.

In addition to its two main campuses, UB has a rapidly developing third campus in downtown Buffalo, anchored by the new Biomedical Campus that includes the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and New York State Research Institute on Addictions. With plans for a new UB Downtown Gateway, the university will soon have six buildings in its downtown core. In addition, UB collaborates with regional institutions such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery to provide innovative initiatives, events, and educational programs taught by faculty who are actively engaged in advancing knowledge in their respective disciplines and professions.

UB fields the only full Division I-A athletics program in the SUNY system. The NCAA officially upgraded UB’s intercollegiate athletics programs to Division I in 1993; today, UB competes in the Mid-American Conference in 19 of its 20 sports. Among its many athletic facilities is UB’s 31,000-seat stadium on its North Campus, where it hosts football, soccer, and track and field events, as well as a variety of university and community based entertainment and recreational activities.

History and Culture

Founded in 1846 as a private medical college located in central Buffalo, UB was first known as the university of Buffalo. The 13th president of the United States, Millard Fillmore, served as a founder and as UB’s first Chancellor (1846-1874). UB grew steadily in the 19th century, expanding with schools of Pharmacy (1886), Law (1887), and Dental Medicine (1892). This grounding in professional training shaped UB’s early identity as an educational institution, as well as its place within the local and state communities.

UB’s first liberal-arts curriculum was developed after the turn of the century when the American Medical Association began to require at least one preliminary year of liberal-arts work as part of physician education. The College of Arts and Sciences was authorized by the State Department of Education in 1919. The university’s first fund-raising initiative followed in 1920. These funds made it possible to develop the Main Street campus, now known as the South Campus. In 1922, graduate work in the arts and sciences curriculum was introduced, and the School of Management was established in 1923. The Graduate School offered its first programs as an individual division in 1939; the 1930s and '40s saw the introduction of several other divisions at UB, such as the schools of Education, Social Work, Nursing, and Engineering. In the 1950s, the university consolidated all facilities — with the exception of the Law School, then located in downtown Buffalo — at the South Campus. In 1962, UB joined the SUNY system, becoming the State University of New York at Buffalo, one of four university centers in the system and its largest and most comprehensive campus.

Values and Commitments

The three traditional missions of the public university — research, teaching, and public service — are not separate or discrete actions, but interdependent activities that inform and enhance each other within our overall university mission. UB’s first priority will be the pursuit and practice of academic excellence for its faculty and its students, in teaching and in research. Academic excellence is our fundamental value and goal and will be pursued with vigor. It is the very core of our enterprise and is the basis for our broader mission as a public research university. Inherent in the pursuit and practice of academic excellence:

• we will establish the appropriate institutional conditions that allow academic excellence to flourish.
• we will strive to foster a worldview that is broad and complex in scope, enlightened rather than narrow, and open to possibility, not constrained by bias.
• we will be continually engaged with our communities — regional, statewide, national, and global — in new ways that serve to define the university’s intellectual, cultural, and economic impact in the 21st century.
• we will play a vital role in the strategic development of effective linkages between primary, secondary, and tertiary education in New York State.
• we will hold ourselves to the highest standards of civility, professionalism, and collegiality.
• we will recognize, honor, and encourage diversity. We will protect and preserve equity throughout our university community.
• we will strive to realize institutional accessibility, comprised of all elements of a student’s ability to engage productively in the university experience.
• we uphold the right of every human being to access knowledge, to exercise freedom of thought and of speech, to think and learn critically, to participate in new intellectual discovery, to advance the development of the self, and to contribute one’s own perspectives, thoughts, and talents to the benefit of the common good.

President — John B. Simpson, Ph.D.

John Barclay Simpson was appointed the 14th president of the University at Buffalo on January 1, 2004, bringing with him more than 30 years of experience in higher education. An accomplished research scientist specializing in neuroendocrinology, physiology, and behavior, he is appointed to the faculty of UB’s Department of Physiology and Biophysics.

As both a product and a lifelong proponent of public higher education, President Simpson believes strongly in its diverse and profound impact upon human endeavor, and is deeply committed to the vital societal role of leading public universities such as UB in providing widespread access to the benefits and opportunities of higher education. Chief among his priorities as UB president has been the institution of a clear and strong plan for the university’s advancement as a model public research university for the 21st century. Since taking office, he has led the academic community in implementing an ongoing, comprehensive and university-wide process of self-assessment and strategic thinking for the future, setting in motion a long-term master strategy for the university’s growth and development over the long term.

Prior to his appointment as UB President, he held the post of campus provost and executive vice chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he served from 1998-2003. Dr. Simpson’s previous appointments include 23 years at the University of Washington, where he joined the Department of Psychology faculty in 1975, later serving as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1994-98.

A native of California, Dr. Simpson received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara and earned his doctorate from Northwestern University in neurobiology and behavior. Dr. Simpson has published widely in the field of neuroendocrinology, and he is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Neuroscience, and the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. A member of the SUNY Research Foundation Board and the UB Associates Board, Dr. Simpson is an ex officio member of the UB Foundation Board of Trustees. Among his numerous leadership roles, Dr. Simpson serves on the boards of the SUNY Research Foundation, the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, and the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. In testament to the university’s longstanding leadership in international education, he received an honorary degree from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 2007.

Recently appointed by Governor Spitzer to the New York State Commission on Higher Education, he also serves on the American Council on Education’s Commission on International Initiatives.

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs — Satish K. Tripathi, Ph.D.

Dr. Tripathi was appointed provost and executive vice president for academic affairs on July 1, 2004. Dr. Tripathi came to the University at Buffalo from University of California Riverside where he served as dean of the Bourns College of Engineering and the William R. Johnson, Jr. Family Distinguished Professor of Engineering at University of California Riverside since 1997. He also served as acting executive vice chancellor from March 2002 through June 2002. Prior to joining University of California Riverside, he was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, where his 19 years as a faculty member in the department included being chair from 1988-1995.

Dr. Tripathi is an internationally accomplished computer scientist who has been involved in substantial funded research. He has published more than 200 scholarly papers, supervised 25 doctoral students and served on program committees of numerous international conferences. He has been the guest editor or guest co-editor of several scientific journals and is a founding member of the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing. A member of the editorial board of International Journal of High-Speed Networks, he previously was on the editorial boards of Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE Transactions on Computers, ACM Multimedia Systems, and ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking.

Provost Tripathi is a fellow of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2006, Dr. Tripathi was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Sciences from the prestigious Indian Institute of Information Technology, the university’s highest degree. He was a visiting professor at the University of Paris-Sud in France and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany while at the University of Maryland. A native of India, Dr. Tripathi graduated top of his class from Banaras Hindu University in India in 1968. In addition to a doctorate in computer science that he earned from the University of Toronto in 1979, he holds three master's degrees — one in computer science from the University of Toronto (1976) and two in statistics from the University of Alberta (1974) and Banaras Hindu University (1970).

Academic Units

In addition to the School of Management, UB’s 11 other schools offer a broad range of academic and professional programs, providing extraordinary capacity for synergy and interdisciplinary cooperation.

• College of Arts and Sciences: With 28 departments and many specialized research centers, the College of Arts and Sciences is the largest and most comprehensive of the university’s units. The college has a distinguished, award-winning faculty dedicated to instruction and research in the core disciplines of the humanities, arts, and sciences. The college enrolls nearly 7,000 students in its degree programs, and provides instruction to more than 10,000 additional non-major students.
• School of Architecture and Planning: Established in 1968, UB’s professional architecture school is unique in the SUNY system. The school offers the only accredited professional degree in architecture within SUNY, and is one of two within SUNY to offer an accredited degree program in urban planning.
• School of Dental Medicine: Established in 1892, the school offers the DDS, MS, and PhD degrees. The School of Dental Medicine is recognized nationally and internationally for its excellence in dental research and research training. It is consistently one of the leading dental schools in the United States in grant and contract awards for research. The school is also well known in the region for its public service initiatives.
• Graduate School of Education: The Graduate School of Education comprises four main programs: counseling, school, and educational psychology; educational leadership and policy; learning and instruction; and library and information studies. Doctoral, masters, and advanced certificate programs are offered. Established in 1931, the school currently confers approximately 27 percent of all master's degrees at UB and maintains close functional ties with area school districts.
• School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) — ranked in the top 15% of the nation’s engineering schools — is the largest and most comprehensive public school of engineering in New York State. Founded in 1946, SEAS is comprised of six departments and is well known for fostering partnerships and interdisciplinary research.
• Law School: Established in 1887, the Law School offers a comprehensive and unique curriculum that features eleven subject matter concentrations, short "bridge term" courses focusing on the practices of lawyers, and path-breaking clinical programs featuring not only litigation but also transactional practice and policymaking. The Law School is internationally recognized for its excellence in the interdisciplinary study of law.
• School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences: The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the founding faculty of the university, is 160 years old. Rooted in the importance of the basic biological scientific underpinning of medical knowledge, the school is committed to contributing continuously to that body of knowledge and to providing the best training possible for the physicians and medical scientists of the future.
• School of Nursing: First established as a division within the medical school, the School of Nursing became an independent unit in 1940. The school seeks to develop autonomous, self-directed practitioners who will advance and test the knowledge upon which the practice is based. Programs—which span the baccalaureate through the doctoral degree—emphasize acquisition of clinical expertise.
• School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences: Ranked among the top pharmacy schools in the United States and considered one of the most prestigious, the school was founded in 1886 and is the second-oldest component of the university and the only school of pharmacy in SUNY. Encompassing pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences, the school offers a number of professional, undergraduate, and graduate programs.
• School of Public Health and Health Professions: The first of its kind in SUNY and New York State, the school was created in 1965 as the School of Health Related Professions and was designated as the School of Public Health and Health Professions in 2002. Training public health and health professionals in an environment focused on wellness, disease prevention, and environmental issues, the school also utilizes informatics in developing cutting-edge research initiatives and programs.
• School of Social Work: Established in 1936, the School of Social Work defines its mission as threefold: preparing graduates for successful social work practice, contributing research and scholarship to further the profession, and providing leadership for community service.

In addition to the above, UB’s many centers of research have served as the foundation for growth in programs and resources, such as the Center for Computational Research and, most recently, the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. Designated in 2001 as one of five Centers of Excellence around New York State by Governor George E. Pataki, the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences focuses on the integration of computational biology and high throughput discovery-based medicine. It is unique among major universities in the scope and breadth of areas addressed, and has been the recipient of over $200 million in external funding.

Resources and Operations

UB relies on a diversified revenue stream to shield its operating budget from fluctuations in state appropriations. Over the last five years, revenue from grants and contracts and auxiliary enterprises has grown by more than 40% and now represents over 30% of total revenue.

Revenues –– Fiscal Year 2005-2006 (in thousands)*

Tuition and fees	$146,277	(12.48%)
State Appropriations	$383,395	(32.72%)
Grants and Contracts	$266,999	(22.78%)
Private Support and Other	$67,052	(5.72%)
Endowment and Investment Income	$65,942	(5.63%)
Auxiliary Enterprises	$81,451	(6.95%)
Hospitals and Clinical Revenue	$157,503	(13.44%)
Capital Appropriations, Gifts	$3,231	(0.28%)
Total	$1,171,850	(100%)

Expenditures and Transfers –– Fiscal Year 2005-2006 (in thousands)*

Instruction	$310,108	(28.21%)
Research	$198,277	(18.04%)
Public Service	$9,093	(0.83%)
Academic Support	$24,628	(2.24%)
Student Services	$32,636	(2.97%)
Institutional Support	$117,633	(10.70%)
Operation and Maintenance of Plant	$67,927	(6.18%)
Depreciation	$51,700	(4.70%)
Scholarships and Fellowships	$12,338	(1.12%)
Hospitals and Clinics	$152,905	(13.91%)
Auxiliary Enterprises	$75,504	(6.87%)
Interest Expense	$45,317	(4.12%)
Transfers and Other	$1,059	(0.10%)
Total	$1,099,125	(100%)
* 2006-2007 data will be available in Spring 2008

UB is committed to developing mechanisms to enable it to continue to grow non-state revenue. Construction and facility renewal on both campuses are pressing needs. With legislated added projects, the state plans to allocate $64 million annually over the next four years for the purposes, but additional sources of revenue are critical.

The Buffalo-Niagara Community

Buffalo, called “The City of Good Neighbors,” is the second-largest city in New York State. Fortune magazine ranked the Western New York region in the top 20% of 60 areas in the nation for the quality of its public education. City Honors High School, of the Buffalo Public Schools system, has been ranked in the nation’s top ten public high schools by Newsweek magazine for two consecutive years. Erie County’s public and private secondary schools consistently soar above state and national standardized test averages. Since 1996, Buffalo has been recognized by the National Civic League as an “All-America City,” a designation that honors exemplary civic spirit in a select number of U.S. communities. In 2006, Buffalo was ranked first in the nation amongst mid-sized cities as an arts city by American Style Magazine, and in 2007, the American Planning Association selected Buffalo’s Elmwood Village as one of the 10 Great Neighborhoods in America for its vitality, broad spectrum of cultural and social assets, and its commitment to maintaining high community standards while solving real problems. For more than a decade, the Town of Amherst, in which the North Campus is located, has consistently been ranked among the top three “safest cities in America”, inclusive of all population-size categories. A 2006 analysis from the National Association of Realtors found that Buffalo-area housing costs are considerably lower than the U.S. average and suggested a good possibility of better-than-average appreciation in the coming years, making Buffalo living as affordable as it is appealing. The National Association of Home Builders’ 2006 Housing Opportunity Index ranks the Buffalo area as the most affordable housing market in the Northeast. Commute times in Buffalo consistently rank among the nation’s shortest, with an abundance of cultural and recreational activities nearby, contributing to another of Buffalo’s nicknames, the “twenty-minute city.”

The Buffalo-Niagara region lies directly in the middle of the Northeastern Trade Corridor running from Chicago to Boston. Buffalo is one anchor of the “Greater Golden Horseshoe” that extends from Western New York to Toronto, less than two hours away. With close to ten million residents, this bi-national region provides a wealth of cross-border business, academic, cultural and recreational opportunities.

Buffalo has the cultural resources of a much larger city. It is home to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, housing one of the world’s finest collections of modern painting and sculpture. UB recently acquired the Anderson Gallery, which ARTnews hailed as “a shrine to a world-class collection of contemporary art.” The renowned Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, led by the internationally influential conductor, JoAnne Falletta, performs in Kleinhans Music Hall. Designed by the famed Finnish father-and-son team, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Kleinhans itself is widely admired both for its acoustic qualities and for its architectural beauty. Buffalo also boasts several landmark homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, most notably the Darwin Martin House and Graycliff, as well as an expansive park system created by Frederick Law Olmsted. UB’s own Slee Hall is also a rich cultural resource for the Western New York community, offering over 200 concerts each year, as is UB’s Center for the Arts, one of the region’s major performing arts venues.

Buffalo is well known for its NFL team (four-time AFC champions and two time AFL champions, the Buffalo Bills) and its NHL team, (the Buffalo Sabres, 2006 and 2007 Stanley Cup Eastern Conference runners-up). Area sports fans are also treated to a championship Triple-A baseball team (the Bisons) and professional indoor lacrosse (the Bandits).

Situated on the banks of Lake Erie and within a half-hour’s drive of Lake Ontario, Buffalo is a true “waterfront city.” Lake Erie is responsible for far more than producing lake-effect snow; it is also a major site of water recreation in the spring and summer and one of the area’s chief natural beauties year-round. With a pleasant, temperate climate and the “highest percentage of summer sunshine of any region in New York State,” Buffalo’s spring and summer months richly deserve the widespread notoriety its winters have attracted.

For additional information about the University at Buffalo and its community, see http://www.buffalo.edu and http://www.buffaloniagara.org.

Application/Nomination Procedures

The University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, invites inquiries, nominations, and applications for the position of dean of the School of Management.

Interested qualified individuals should provide an electronic version of their curriculum vitae and an optional letter describing their interest in and qualifications for the position. All nominations and applications should be sent electronically via e-mail (Microsoft Word or PDF attachments strongly preferred) to:

Dr. Ilene H. Nagel
Consultant to the Search Committee
Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
email: ubmgt-dean@RussellReynolds.com

The appointment date is open. To ensure full consideration, materials should be received as soon as possible. Review of nominations and applications for the position will commence immediately and continue until the position is filled. All submitted materials should be received as soon as possible. This search will be conducted with full confidentiality of all candidate information. References will not be contacted without the prior knowledge and approval of the candidate. All candidate information will be held in strict confidence until the final stage of the search at which time the express permission of finalists will be obtained before making their candidacy public. Candidates are urged to review all information and documents posted on the search web site, http://www.buffalo.edu/mgt-dean/. We actively encourage applications from and nominations of women and other protected group members.

UB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer/Recruiter.

The material presented in this position profile should be relied on for informational purposes only. This material has been copied, compiled, or quoted in part from University at Buffalo documents and personal interviews and is believed to be reliable. Naturally, while every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, the original source documents and factual situations govern.

Contact

Dr. Ilene H. Nagel
Consultant to the Search Committee
Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
Phone: 805-325-2050 (PST)
ubmgt-dean@RussellReynolds.com