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Credit: Robert Laramie
Mitchell P. Koza
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Mitchell P. Koza, an internationally recognized expert on business strategy and management education, has been appointed dean of the School of Business at Camden.
Koza will fill the post that opened with the retirement of Milton Leontiades, dean of the school since 1991. Koza’s appointment becomes effective Feb. 15.
In his new position, Koza will develop the academic and administrative operations of the school, which has 535 upper-division undergraduate and 273 M.B.A. students attending classes on campus and in Atlantic City, Mount Laurel and Voorhees. The school, established in 1988, has 37 full-time faculty and 15 staff members and is the first business school in southern New Jersey to earn international accreditation.
Koza, 54, recently completed a term as director general and professor of international strategy for the European Center for Executive Development in France. As head of the school, which provides management education to a consortium of 30 European multinational companies, Koza’s leadership increased member enrollment by 30 percent, added nine faculty members and established a new platform for online education. Koza’s scholarship focuses on issues of international cooperation and competitiveness, emphasizing the cross-cultural and social dimensions of international business and management development.
“Mitchell Koza is an inspired selection for this important leadership role,” said President Richard L. McCormick. “He brings a keen perspective on global business policy and an impressive portfolio of scholarly and administrative achievements to the position, along with an accessible management style and true enthusiasm and energy for helping Rutgers-Camden advance to the next level of prominence in undergraduate and graduate business education.”
Previously, Koza held appointments at the Cranfield University School of Management, a British institution that is a leader among Europe’s management schools. He also has served as a visiting research professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University; an associate professor of business policy at INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration); a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; and an assistant professor of organization and strategy at UCLA’s Graduate School of Management.
He earned his doctorate in organizational sociology and education from the University of Chicago, his master’s degree in policy and planning from Harvard University, and his bachelor’s degree in history and politics from the City University of New York.
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