Susman To Head Research At Smeal; Baumgartner Named Ph.D. Director
Susman To Head Research At Smeal; Baumgartner Named Ph.D. Director
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 28, 2005)—Gerald Susman has been named associate dean for research at Penn State's Smeal College of Business and Hans Baumgartner has been appointed director of the Ph.D. program at the college. Russell Barton is stepping down after three years as associate dean of research and Ph.D. programs to return to a full-time research and teaching role in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems.
As associate dean, Susman will spearhead a variety of initiatives designed to enhance the research eminence of Smeal. The college currently ranks among the top 15 business schools in the world for the research productivity of its faculty.
Susman will oversee faculty issues such as the promotion and tenure process; provide internal support for faculty pursuing external research grants; spearhead activities related to Smeal's network of industry-facing research centers; manage initiatives such as the Smeal Competitive Research Program; and represent the college on the University Research Council and other externally facing research committees, among other activities.
As director, Baumgartner will work closely Smeal's academic departments on student recruitment, admissions and funding issues, graduate-level curriculum design, and Ph.D. candidate research requirements. He will also serve as an ombudsman for the college's doctoral students and advise the members of Smeal Ph.D. Association.
Susman is the Robert and Judith Klein Professor of Management and director of Smeal's Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change. He's currently program manager of a multi-year grant to Smeal from the National Institute of Standards and Technology on innovation, global competitiveness, supply chain management, and the future of manufacturing. Susman holds a Ph.D., master's, and bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Baumgartner is a professor of marketing and the Charles and Lillian Binder Faculty Fellow at the college. His research interests have been in the areas of consumer behavior and research methodology, with a focus on how consumers form judgments about objects and events and how these judgments influence actual behavior. Baumgartner holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Stanford, a M.B.A. from University of Texas at Arlington, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Innsbruck.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
