Biography

Dipak C. Jain is a globally recognized marketing and innovation expert whose insights have inspired a generation of business leaders to pursue success with significance.

Prior to being named as Honorary President at Woosong University in 2017, he served from 2011 to 2013 as Dean of INSEAD, an international business school with campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi. Before joining INSEAD, Dr. Jain was Dean of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management from 2001 to 2009. Before that appointment, he served as the Kellogg School’s Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 1996 to 2001, working closely with Dean Donald P. Jacobs to set the school’s agenda for curriculum design and faculty research initiatives. In recognition of his many scholarly achievements and outstanding teaching, he also was named in 1994 the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing at Kellogg, whose Marketing Department he joined as a faculty member in 1986.
Dr. Jain’s academic career began as a student in Tezpur (Assam) India. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics (1976) and his master’s degree in mathematical statistics (1978) from Gauhati University, where he taught for four years before enrolling in the University of Texas (Dallas), where he completed his Ph.D. in Marketing in 1986.

Dr. Jain’s influential career spans nearly three decades as an educator, a senior business school administrator, and a consultant to corporations, governments, and world-renowned figures. Throughout his career, he has furthered a pedagogical model that combines academic excellence and business relevance to produce high-impact results with social significance.
Dipak Jain’s board service also has earned him distinction. He currently serves as an Independent Director on Boards of John Deere & Company (USA), Northern Trust Corporation (USA), Global Logistics Properties (Singapore) and Reliance Industries (India). He is a former director at United Airlines, Hartmarx Corporation and Peoples Energy. He has served as a consultant to many firms, including Microsoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony, Nissan, Eli Lilly and Company, and Hyatt International.

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Professor Howard Thomas served as the dean of Lee Kong Chian School of Business from 2010 to 2014. During his tenure, SMU received business school accreditations by highly regarded and globally recognized programs including AACSB and EQUIS. SMU was also invited to be member of GMAC and the EMBA Council, and joined the Global Business School Network in 2014.

Professor Howard Thomas is a highly cited scholar, with fellowship awards from the U.S. Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Directors. He was also awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Academy of Management in 2013, and the Strategic Leadership Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) in 2014. He is a companion of the Association of Business Schools in the UK, and former chair of the board of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), AACSB, the Association of Business Schools (ABS), and the Global Foundation of Management Education (GFME). He is also an honorary life member and a board member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). He served as president of the Strategic Management Society and has held visiting and permanent academic posts at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), the London Business School, Boston University Questrom School of Business, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Kellogg School of Management Northwestern, the European Institute for the Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels, HEC Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Canada.

Before SMU, Professor Thomas has had Deanships / Senior Administrative positions at London Business School, AGSM, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Warwick Business School.

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Dr. Shuming ZHAO is Senior Distinguished Professor and Honorary Dean of the School of Business, Nanjing University, China. He serves as President of the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR, Third Term), President of Jiangsu Provincial Association of Human Resource Management, Vice Chairman for the Steering Committee for National Business Degree Programs of the Ministry of Education of China, and Vice President of Chinese Academy of Management.

Dr. Zhao’s research area is human resource management, multinational business management, and entrepreneurship. He has been chairing several research projects for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and has published more than 10 books and over 300 academic papers and articles. He received the best research award from the Ministry of Education of China in 2006, Honorary Doctoral Degree from Seton Hill University in 2006, Chancellor’s Medallion by University of Missouri-St. Louis in 2008, the Fudan Management Excellence Award by Fudan Premium Fund of Management in 2010, and the Outstanding Social Science Expert of Jiangsu from Jiangsu Provincial Government in 2015.

Dr. Zhao is the Distinguished Visiting Professor at Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh and College of Business, the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is also the Visiting Professor at Peter Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, USA.

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Frank Mulhern is Associate Dean and Professor for Integrated Marketing Communications at Medill. He also holds the Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professorship.

Mulhern specializes in research on the economics of marketing, the impact of new media technologies on marketing communications and the measurement of advertising and promotion effects, particularly in retail environments. His research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Communications, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Advertising, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Interactive Marketing and Journal of Business Research. He is the co-author of the textbook, “Marketing Communications: Integrated Theory, Strategy and Tactics.”

He has taught numerous courses in Medill’s IMC program, including Marketing Management, IMC Strategic Process, Media Economics and Technology, Database Marketing, and Marketing Research. Furthermore, he conducts executive education and speaks at corporations and universities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. He was previously on the faculty at the Smeal College of Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University.

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