Office of the Provost

Announcement

March 10, 2005

Dear Colleagues:

It is with deep regret that I have accepted the resignation of Dean Frederick Winter, effective August 1, 2005. Professor Winter, who has served as Dean of the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration since 1997, wishes to return to his research and teaching. His decision to step down from the deanship concludes eight years of successful administrative leadership and service to the School and to the University.

Dean Winter received his baccalaureate degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, graduating cum laude, and earned his MSIA and PhD from Purdue University, where he won the Krannert Scholar Award. He began his faculty career as Associate Professor of Business Administration and Director of Graduate Studies for Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He became a Professor of Business Administration there, specializing in marketing, in 1981, and held concurrent appointments as a Visiting Professor of Marketing at Indiana University and as Professor of Marketing in the Executive MBA Program in Washington University’s Olin School of Business. In 1986, he was named Head of the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Before he came to Pitt to serve as Dean of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, Dr. Winter served as Dean of the School of Management for the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo from 1994 to1997. There he initiated an Executive MBA program and an International Executive MBA program in Singapore and Beijing; he was also responsible for designing and implementing that school’s strategic plan.

Dr. Winter was appointed Dean of the Katz School at the University of Pittsburgh in 1997. Here he has designed and managed a strategic planning effort engendering whole-hearted faculty and staff support, reengineered the MBA and executive education programs, and created a new family of programs in entrepreneurship and technology management. He has also overseen the development of four new International Executive MBA Programs in the Czech Republic, Brazil, Manchester, England, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates; developed an ambitious corporate integration program; and energized the Business School’s participation in the University’s Capital Campaign.

In addition to his numerous scholarly publications on marketing, Dean Winter has contributed to the literature of academic administration with such efforts as a chapter on “Local Interconnectedness and International Outlook” in Elite MBA Programs at Public Universities. I have very much enjoyed working with Dean Winter both in his role as dean and in his participation in the activities of our Council of Deans, and I am very pleased that he will continue his academic career at the University as Professor in the Katz Graduate School of Business.

Under Dean Winter’s leadership, the Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration has developed the quality and size of its undergraduate student program and strengthened the executive and international education components of its graduate offerings. The quality of students entering the MBA program has notably improved, and the program is now ranked in all major rankings publications. Innovative new programs such as KATZPORT, Import-Export, Inc., and Personal Coaching have positioned Katz and the College of Business Administration to continue to build on their strengths and priorities. In short, Dean Winter, with the support of his senior administrative team and faculty, has further developed our School to have a strong foundation for future growth.

A search committee will be formed soon with the intention of identifying Dean Winter's successor by next spring. I will be meeting with the faculty of the School this summer to discuss the appointment of an Interim Dean for the 2005-2006 academic year.

Sincerely,

James V. Maher

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