MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

With the faculty, students, alumni and programs of The University of Texas
at Dallas (UTD) School of Management (SOM) increasingly in leading
positions, it is appropriate that this issue of MANAGEMENT feature the
topic of leadership at all levels. SOM faculty members are garnering
increasing attention, both in this country and abroad, as leaders in their
various disciplines of management research. This fall, Professor Frank
Bass, Ph.D., was recognized for his groundbreaking work in marketing
science with two honorary doctorates and with a research center and a
chaired professorship created in his name. These came both close to home
comparatively speaking at The Ohio State University and in such
far-ranging places as the University of South Australia and the University
of Groningen in the Netherlands. Also, the contributions of Professor
Suresh Sethi, Ph.D., were recognized by his operations management
colleagues around the world with a conference in France held in his honor.
SOM's faculty continue to be recognized research leaders. This fall,
Financial Times, the London-based international business-news paper,
ranked the research productivity of our faculty 32nd worldwide. Financial
Times arrived at that number using a broader set of top research journals
 40 in all than the set of 22 journals SOM uses on
http://citm.utdallas.edu/utdrankings/, its UTD Top 100 Business School
Research Rankings Web site.

As national and international attention has focused on the work of the SOM
faculty, 13 new members among them five tenured full and associate
professors have joined our ranks this fall. Mike W. Peng, Ph.D., has
been named UTD Provost's Distinguished Professor of Global Business
Strategy, and Harold H. Zhang, Ph.D., joins us as a full professor in our
Finance area. Brian Ratchford, Ph.D., currently Pepsico Chair in Consumer
Research at the University of Maryland, will join the UTD School of
Management as a full, named professor in December. New associate
professors are David L. Deeds, Ph.D., who specializes in issues of
entrepreneurship, and L’via Mark—czy, Ph.D., who is well known for her
work in management and international business.

SOM continues to lead the way in its position as the largest of UTD's
seven schools. This fall, our enrollment has increased to nearly 4,700
students, half of whom are at the graduate level. In addition, both SOM
alumni and current students have attained prominence in a variety of ways.
Of the 10 university alums chosen to receive 2005 UTD Alumni Council
Achievement Awards, four are from the SOM. They are Sam Gilliland, EMBA
1994, president, CEO and chairman of the board of Sabre Holdings; Alan
Halliburton, MA 1990, president of Halliburton Investor Relations; Dipak
C. Jain, MS 1986, Ph.D. 1987, dean of the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University; and, Melendy E. Lovett, MS 1982, senior vice
president of Texas Instruments (TI) Incorporated and president of TI's
Educational and Productivity Solutions business. Our 2005 Cohort MBA
business competition team led the way in graduate student achievement. The
Cohort team placed sixth in a field of 34 from universities nationwide
selected to compete in the final round of the Dell-Microsoft Marketing
Case Competition, ranking ahead of teams from such schools as the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Purdue University and the
University of Michigan. At the undergraduate level, the development of
leadership skills is a major focus of those students involved in the new
School of Management Undergraduate Honors Program.

SOM's programs continue to be recognized as leading programs in their
areas. This fall, our Executive MBA was ranked 25th in the United States
by Financial Times. U.S. News & World Report ranks the school's Cohort MBA
Program among the top 35 at public colleges and universities in the
nation. Also, SOM was chosen by Business Week to participate in a survey
to rank the nation's undergraduate business programs. Another area in
which SOM has clearly demonstrated leadership is our distance learning
programs; their enrollments are growing at an even faster rate than our
regular programs. Additionally, since our last issue, our Global
Leadership Executive MBA Program was listed for the fourth straight year
as a "Best of the Web" program by Forbes, and our Project Management
Program has become one of only five such programs in the world to earn
accreditation from the prestigious Project Management Institute. That
program has also been recognized by Project Management Network magazine as
a "best bet" project management program, worldwide.

Accomplishments such as these assure us that we are rapidly achieving our
goal of being one of the nation's leading public business schools. We
thank our alumni and friends for the part they have played in these
successes, and we welcome your further support and input.

Best wishes,

Hasan Pirkul

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