MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

This fall is a momentous time in our history as we celebrate the opening
of the $38-million building that is the new home of The University of
Texas at Dallas School of Management. This new building not only enables
us to accommodate the 92 percent growth we have experienced over the last
seven years, it also allows us to go forward with a modern facility that
supports continued growth and excellence.

With these achievements, our national reputation is beginning to build. We
have been included - in our first year of eligibility for consideration,
as an AACSB-International-accredited school - on U.S. News and World
Report's list of ranked MBA programs. We have also been included by
Financial Times in its rankings of Executive MBA programs. These
recognitions follow our sixth-place ranking in research productivity in
operations management and information systems in a study published earlier
this year by ORMS Today.

National recognition continues to come to members of our outstanding
faculty. Dr. Frank Bass last summer received the prestigious Parlin Award
for his contributions to the field of marketing science. Last spring, his
paper on the Bass Model was recognized as one of the top five most-cited
papers published in the 50-year history of the influential journal
Management Science. Also last summer, Dr. Nanda Kumar received an
honorable mention for the highly respected Davidson Award for an article
he published in the Journal of Retailing, and Dr. Laurie Ziegler was
honored by being listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers. This fall,
Dr. Suresh Sethi was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences in recognition of his significant
contributions to the field of Operations Management. In addition, the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this fall named
Dr. Sethi an AAAS Fellow to recognize his distinguished contributions to
his field.

As we celebrate these accomplishments, we continue to improve and expand
the programs we offer. We now have a new Master of Science degree in
Information Technology Management, and we are finalizing updates to our
MBA curriculum. Our online programs are growing in popularity and
constitute an important part our mix of offerings. We continue to occupy a
leadership position, nationally and internationally, in online graduate
management education, and we are working to meet requests by an increasing
number of corporations to provide continuing education, online, to their
employees.

In addition to our existing programs, our school is now home to three new
centers - the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks, the Institute for
Excellence in Corporate Governance and The Leadership Center at UTD - that
not only foster research in their areas of interest but also provide real
value to industry by offering training, continuing education and the
capacity to carry out projects relevant to industry's needs. The
increasing number of such centers in our school reflects the expanding
expertise of our faculty. The centers also show our interest in going
beyond providing top-notch academic programs to also offering programs
that add immediate value to corporations.

Achievements such as these - along with the synergy that comes from being
united under one roof in our world-class facility - allow us to further
enhance the quality of the education we offer as we continue in our quest
to become one of the leading public business schools in the nation.

Best wishes,

Hasan Pirkul

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