All IIT Business Programs Now in the Newly-Renamed Stuart School of Business; New Dean Kahalas to direct business programs
Illinois Institute of Technology Provost and Senior Vice president Allan Myerson is pleased to announce that the undergraduate business program as well as other programs in the Institute for Business and Interprofessional Studies and the Knapp Entrepreneurial Center are now combined with the graduate business programs in the newly-renamed Stuart School of Business, under the direction of Dean Harvey Kahalas.
"The new name better reflects the combined resources and capabilities of business programs at the university," Myerson said.
Harvey Kahalas recently joined IIT as dean and professor for the Stuart School of Business. Prior to joining IIT, he served as dean of the School of Business Administration and Professor as well as executive director of the Institute for Organizational and Industrial Competitiveness at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Immediately prior to joining Wayne State, he served as Commonwealth of Massachusetts Distinguished Professor of Management and Director, Center for Business Research and Competitiveness, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Kahalas has served as dean of the College of Management, Professor of Management, and executive director of the Center for Industrial Competitiveness at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He previously served as executive director of the General Motors/State of New York Project on Industrial Effectiveness and Economic Development. Prior to his work with GM, Kahalas served as the dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at the State University of New York at Albany, and a fellow at the Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New York. He served also on the faculties of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute as well as having held positions with Ford Motor Company and a major U.S. governmental agency.
Kahalas is a recognized expert in the area of training and executive education as well as competitiveness. He has published over 100 scholarly articles that focus on areas such as leadership, social issues and problems, economic development, organizational change, and strategic planning.
Kahalas received his advanced degrees from the University of Michigan in finance and the University of Massachusetts in the social, political, and legal environment of business. Kahalas has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar, a distinguished invited lecturer in numerous countries under U.S. and foreign government sponsorship on issues such as economic development and individual/organizational/industrial competitiveness, and has been recognized as an outstanding alumnus by the University of Massachusetts.
"We believe that by combining our business programs, our entrepreneurial activities, and our multidisciplinary undergraduate academic focus we will provide a more cohesive opportunity for students to take advantage of the variety and levels of business study throughout IIT," Kahalas said.
Founded in 1890, IIT is a Ph.D.-granting university with more than 6,700 students in engineering, sciences, architecture, psychology, design, humanities, business and law. IIT's interprofessional, technology-focused curriculum is designed to advance knowledge through research and scholarship, to cultivate invention improving the human condition, and to prepare students from throughout the world for a life of professional achievement, service to society, and individual fulfillment.
