Dipak Jain, Kellogg’s
dean
Dipak C. Jain
Dean, Kellogg School of Mngt.; Sandy and Morton
Goldman Prof of Entre. Studies; Prof of Marketing
Dept: Marketing
A distinguished teacher and scholar, Dipak C. Jain
has been dean of the Kellogg School of Management
since July 2001. He brings more than 20 years of
experience in management and education to his position
at the school’s helm.
Dean Jain is the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor
in Entrepreneurial Studies and a professor of marketing
at the Kellogg School, where he has been a member
of the faculty since 1987. Prior to his appointment
as Dean, he served as the associate dean of academic
affairs for five years and worked closely with former
Kellogg School Dean Donald P. Jacobs to set the
agenda for the school’s curriculum, faculty
and research activities.
Dean Jain’s areas of research include the
marketing of high-tech products; market segmentation
and competitive market structure analysis; cross-cultural
issues in global product diffusion; new product
diffusion; and forecasting models. He has had more
than 30 articles published in leading academic journals.
Dean Jain teaches courses on marketing research,
new products and services, and probabilistic and
statistical models in marketing. In 2003, he was
appointed as a foreign affairs adviser for the Prime
Minister of Thailand. He has served as a consultant
to IBM, Sears, U.S. Cellular, AT&T, Motorola,
Harris Semi Conductor, Eli Lilly, Thomsen Electronics,
Phillips and Hyatt International. He also serves
as a member of the board of directors of Evanston
Northwestern Healthcare, Hartmarx Corporation, John
Deere and Company, Northern Trust Corporation, Peoples
Energy and United Airlines.
Dean Jain’s teaching honors include the Sidney
Levy Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995; the
John D.C. Little Best Paper Award in 1991; Kraft
research professorships in 1989-90 and 1990-91;
the Beatrice research professorship in 1987-88;
the Outstanding Educator Award from the State of
Assam in India in 1982; the Gold Medal for the Best
Post-Graduate of the Year from Gauhati University
in India in 1978; the Gold Medal for the Best Graduate
of the Year from Darrang College in Assam in India
in 1976; the Gold Medal from Jaycees International
in 1976; the Youth Merit Award from Rotary International
in 1976; and the Jawaharlal Nehru Merit Award, Government
of India in 1976.
Dean Jain has served as the departmental editor
for the journal Management Science, the area editor
for Marketing Science and associate editor for the
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.. He
is a member of the editorial board of the Journal
of Marketing Research.
His long career in education began as a student
sitting on the floor of his school in the village
of Tezpur, in northeast India. He went on to earn
his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics
in 1976 and his master’s degree in mathematical
statistics in 1978 from Gauhati University in India.
He taught at Gauhati for the next five years before
leaving for Dallas to pursue his PhD in marketing
at the University of Texas. In addition to his positions
at the Kellogg School, Dean Jain has been a visiting
professor of marketing since 1989 at the Sasin Graduate
Institute of Business Administration at Chulalongkorn
University in Bangkok.
Kellogg School has
been named the top MBA program in the world
Kellogg located in the Chicago suburb of
Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University opened
its School of Commerce in 1908 as an evening program
for Chicago area business professionals.
Kellogg was named the top business school in the
United States in the first-ever ranking published
in the Wall Street Journal in 1985. In turn, BusinessWeek
rated the Kellogg School No. 1 in 2002, 1992, 1990
and 1988, and No. 2 in 2000, 1998, and 1994. For
the past two consecutive years, the Kellogg School
has been named the top MBA program in the world
by The Economist Intelligence Unit, a division of
The Economist Group. In addition, for more than
a decade, the Kellogg School Executive MBA program
has been ranked No. 1 by BusinessWeek and U.S. News
and World Report
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