tepper - Carnegie Mellon University
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TEPPER School of Business<br />
New Center For Business<br />
Solutions Integrates Business<br />
And Education by Geof Becker<br />
Aiming to transform the practice of business and business education,<br />
theTepper School of Business recently launched the Center for<br />
Business Solutions.The new center, in combination with two other<br />
research centers at theTepper School, integrates core disciplines<br />
central to the process of business innovation.Three specific areas are<br />
involved in the centers: stimulation of relevant management research;<br />
enhancement of business education; and long-term partnerships<br />
with corporations to help businesses more fully employ sophisticated<br />
analytical technology in strategically important processes.<br />
Headed by Sunder Kekre, Bosch Professor of Manufacturing and<br />
Operations Management, the Center for Business Solutions is an<br />
ambitious and focused effort to forge mutually beneficial partnerships<br />
between industry and theTepper School.<br />
“The cycle of strategy to execution is faster than ever.The key<br />
to our partnership model is helping member companies leverage<br />
technology as a critical element in converting data to knowledge,<br />
action and financial performance,” said Kekre.<br />
The fully integrated approach embodied in the Center for Business<br />
Solutions comes as Dean Kenneth Dunn seeks to keep theTepper<br />
School at the forefront of business research, building upon the legacy<br />
of the Nobel Prize-winning work that distinguishes theTepper School<br />
of Business and <strong>Carnegie</strong> <strong>Mellon</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
“The Center for Business Solutions is a new approach grounded in<br />
the belief that in-depth partnerships between companies and the<br />
Tepper School will capitalize on our recognized strengths in leveraging<br />
the intersection of business and technology,” said Dunn. “The close<br />
relationships also will help our faculty develop new knowledge<br />
based on real business data and problems, and quickly bring these<br />
discoveries into the classroom.”<br />
The new center is an integral component in the dean’s plan to<br />
stimulate innovative research and education that impacts business<br />
practice. Its close relationship with two other centers at theTepper<br />
School, the Center for Analytical Research inTechnology (CART)<br />
and theTeaching Innovation Center (TIC), defines the organizational<br />
structure that will foster the leadership Dunn envisions.<br />
Companies partner with theTepper School’s Center for Business<br />
Solutions through a sponsorship program that funds research<br />
projects for faculty and students that benefit companies’ businesses.<br />
Membership benefits include access to faculty/student teams;<br />
private briefings on faculty research; company-specific executive<br />
education programs; priority recruiting; project courses<br />
sponsorships; and opportunities to participate in summit meetings<br />
and conferences. Member companies may also provide industry data<br />
and sponsor international field studies and case competitions.<br />
“The tripod concept is a good illustration of the interplay among<br />
the three areas of research, teaching and practice,” said R. Ravi,<br />
associate dean, Intellectual Strategy and <strong>Carnegie</strong> Bosch Professor of<br />
Operations Research and Computer Science. “The size of the faculty<br />
is an important factor in the delivery of knowledge across these<br />
three areas. With our smaller faculty, there are no silos. Everyone<br />
contributes to breakthroughs.”<br />
With the CART and theTIC, the new Center for Business Solutions<br />
completes a powerful pedagogical plan designed to benefit faculty,<br />
students and corporate partners. Faculty gain insight into complex,<br />
high-impact problems for research and the creation of new knowledge;<br />
students apply newly acquired skills to real business problems; and<br />
corporations receive in-depth access to theTepper School’s and<br />
<strong>Carnegie</strong> <strong>Mellon</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s renowned academic resources and<br />
intellectual capital for critical problem solving, research, recruiting<br />
and executive education.<br />
“This is the final part of the research triangle whose goal is to<br />
increase the dominance of our faculty research in the area of business<br />
education,” said John Mather, teaching professor of marketing and<br />
executive director of the masters programs.<br />
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