Dipak Jain, who has served as the dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University for the past eight years, will step down on September 1, 2009, according to a release from the school earlier this week. A noted marketing scholar, Jain will return to teaching after a year’s leave of absence, the release reported.
An interim dean is expected to be appointed in the next few months while Kellogg conducts a search for a new full-time dean.
Jain served as associate dean for five years, working closely with former Dean Donald Jacobs, before his appointment to the dean’s position in 1994. He moved to Kellogg in 1986 as an assistant professor and has served as the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies since 1994.
In a letter to Kellogg students, Jain thanked them for their partnership. “My interactions with you have made me job a true joy,” he said. He has decided to step down as dean in order to devote more time to his family and scholarly pursuits, he continued.
At 51, Jain is among the youngest of U.S. business school deans and is widely connected in industry, according to a report about the change in the Financial Times. He has served as a consultant to Microsoft, Novartis, American Express, Sony, Nissan, Motorola, Eli Lilly, Phillips and Hyatt International and is a board member of Hartmarx Corporation, Deere & Company and Northern Trust Corporation in the United States and Reliance Industries in India.
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