EAST LANSING, MICHIGAN & TORONTO, ONTARIO, January 15, 2004 -- The Academy of International Business (AIB) today announced that Dezsö J. Horváth, Dean of the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, was named 2004 Dean of the Year. It is the first time that a Canadian has been named a recipient of the award. The award will be presented on July 13 at the AIB Annual Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.
Established in 1959, the Academy of International Business is the world’s leading association of scholars in the field of international business, with approximately 3,000 members in 65 countries around the world. The AIB Dean of the Year Award is given in recognition of "outstanding leadership in various aspects of internationalization, including programs, research and curriculum development, and outreach."
Dezsö Horváth is serving his fourth five-year term as Dean and is one of the longest serving deans at any business school in North America. In making the announcement, Donald Lessard, Dean of the AIB Fellows and a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), indicated that "since becoming Dean in 1988, Dezsö Horváth has played a significant role in transforming Schulich into a truly global business school, with pioneering International MBA and BBA programs, and an Executive MBA offered jointly with the Kellogg School of Business. He has also undertaken numerous international initiatives in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Asia and has established a number of endowed chairs with an international focus – three in International Business and two others with explicit global mandates."
John Hunkin, Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the Schulich School of Business and President and CEO of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said "Dezsö Horváth has succeeded in transforming Schulich into a globally oriented centre of management learning as well as a pioneer in the development of international business programs. He is most deserving of this international honour." John Hunkin is a Schulich alumnus from Class of ’69.
The following are some of the achievements and milestones in international business education at the Schulich School of Business under Dean Horváth’s leadership:
International Faculty, Students & Alumni
Schulich’s student body and faculty are among the most cosmopolitan of any business school in the world. According to the 2003 Financial Times MBA survey, Schulich has the highest percentage of international students among North American schools (68%). The School also has more than 30 alumni chapters around the world that provide linkages to 17,000 alumni working in 71 countries.
Internationalization of the Curriculum and Research
Dean Horváth was instrumental in establishing Canada’s first International MBA (IMBA) Program at Schulich in 1989, which became the catalyst for the subsequent internationalization of the School. In 2000, the School inaugurated an International BBA program for undergraduate students modeled after the IMBA program. Dean Horváth has also established a number of endowed research chairs with an international focus, including three in International Business.
International Alliances & Partnerships
As a result of Dean Horváth’s pro-active leadership, Schulich today has one of the most extensive international networks of corporate and academic partners of any business school in the world. Schulich has established strategic student/faculty exchange partnerships on every continent with more than 60 leading business schools in over 40 countries. Dean Horváth was a driving force behind the creation of the Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA (EMBA) program, North America’s first cross-border executive MBA degree, and he has personally championed numerous international initiatives in Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia.
About Schulich
Known as Canada’s Global Business School™, the Schulich School of Business is ranked 22nd in the world, according to a ranking of the world’s top 100 MBA programs by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business research and intelligence arm of The Economist magazine. Schulich is also ranked 26th in the world by the Financial Times of London and is ranked as one of the top ten schools in the world outside the US by Forbes, BusinessWeek, the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Financial Times. Global, innovative and diverse, Schulich is Canada’s largest school of graduate management education. It offers business degrees at the undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate and executive education levels. These include Canada’s first International MBA (IMBA), as well as North America’s first ever cross-border degree, the Joint Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA.
For more information, please contact:
Tomas Hult, Executive Secretary, AIB at (517) 432-1452
Paul Pivato, Schulich School of Business at (416) 736-5546
