About the Dean – David A. Gautschi, Ph.D.

	David Gautschi is the George N. Jean Professor of Marketing and Business Economics and Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University. His career has spanned academe and business. Dean Gautschi has served on the faculties of Cornell, INSEAD, Yale, the University of Washington, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and he has founded three companies in software development and marketing analytics. As a Firm Director, he served from 1999 to 2003 as one of six leaders of the e-business practice of Deloitte & Touche, LLP. David Gautschi has published extensively on issues ranging from transportation mode choice, the optimization of marketing decisions, the economics of retailing and services, and technology and business. He has developed a series of market simulations that have been used in MBA and executive programs. His current projects include a monograph on the unintended economic consequences of technological innovations and the analysis of risk-taking in groups comprised of decision-makers from different cultures. As the context of business has become progressively uncertain and complex, Dean Gautschi has launched an initiative at Fordham that draws upon a small diverse community from around the world to explore two related questions: What is the purpose of business? and What is the role of the business school in the contemporary university? David Gautschi received the BA in mathematics from the University of Maine, the MBA (quantitative methods concentration) from the University of Oregon, and the PhD in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.