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Kellogg School has been named the top MBA program in the world

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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Dipak Jain, Kellogg’s dean