Dean of University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business to Resign, Effective Aug. 1

PITTSBURGH—Frederick W. Winter, dean of the University of Pittsburgh's Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration since 1997, announced his decision to resign as dean, effective Aug. 1, 2005. He will continue his academic career in research and teaching as a professor in the Katz School. A search committee will be formed to select his successor.

"The Katz School and College of Business Administration occupy an important place—in the University and in the region," said Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg. "They have grown in strength, impact, and reputation during Rick Winter's service as dean, and we always will be grateful for his very significant contributions to that progress."

"I have very much enjoyed working with Dean Winter, and I am very pleased that he will continue his academic career at the University," said Pitt Provost James V. Maher. "Under Dean Winter's leadership, the school's reputation has become stronger, with both the quality of its incoming students and the productivity of its faculty earning recognition."

Since his appointment as dean of the Katz School eight years ago, Winter has designed and managed a strategic planning effort engendering faculty and staff support, re-engineered the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and executive education programs, and created a new family of programs in entrepreneurship and technology management. He also has overseen the development of new International Executive MBA programs in Prague, the Czech Republic; São Paulo, Brazil; Manchester, England; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. And he developed an ambitious corporate integration program and energized the business school's participation in the University's $1 billion Discover a World of Possibilities capital campaign.

Winter has contributed numerous articles to professional journals and has written many book chapters, most recently "Local Interconnectedness and International Outlook," a chapter on academic administration in Elite MBA Programs at Public Universities (Praeger Publishers, 2004). He also is coeditor of New Industries and Strategies Alliance in Agriculture: Concepts and Cases (Stipes Publishing, 1995).

Under Winter's leadership, the Katz School has strengthened the executive and international education components of its graduate offerings, and the College of Business Administration has developed the quality and size of its undergraduate student program. The quality of students entering the MBA program has improved markedly, and the program is now ranked in all major publications ranking graduate business school programs. Innovative new programs such as KATZPORT, Import-Export, Inc., and Personal Coaching have positioned the Katz School and College of Business Administration to continue to build on accumulated strengths and priorities.

Winter is a board member of Indotronix International Corporation, BlackRock Liquidity Funds, Innovation Works, the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, and Alkon Corporation; he also has served on the boards of many other entities, among them the Allegheny Council of Economic Development Advisors, the Technology Committee of The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and Rand Capital, a venture capital firm that financed and worked with start-up companies.

Winter received the B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Lehigh University, graduating cum laude, and earned the M.S. in industrial administration and Ph.D. degrees at Purdue University, where he won the Krannert Scholar Award. He began his faculty career as an assistant 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 a 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 coming to Pitt, Winter served from 1994 to 1997 as dean of the School of Management for the State University of New York at Buffalo. There he initiated an Executive MBA Program and an International Executive MBA Program in both Singapore and Beijing; he also was responsible for designing and implementing that school's strategic plan.

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