Yash P Gupta

Yash P. Gupta became the first permanent dean of the Carey Business School on Jan. 1, 2008, taking charge of the university's initiative to re-invent business education by arming students with both business skills and critical knowledge from other disciplines.

The Carey School was launched as a freestanding business school in 2007, built on a tradition of business education at the university that dates to 1916.

"This is a great opportunity to create a world-class business school in a world-class university," Gupta said at the time of his appointment.

Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Gupta served as dean for a total of 14 years at the University of Colorado at Denver, the University of Washington and, from 2004 to 2006, the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

During his tenure at USC, the Marshall School raised more than $55 million; expanded its faculty; increased emphasis on faculty research; created research centers focused on such areas as global business, bio-business, sports business and brand management; and developed a new innovation-focused MBA curriculum.

Gupta was dean of the University of Washington Business School from 1999 to 2004 and headed the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado at Denver from 1992 to 1999.

A widely published scholar in operations management, Gupta also has served on the faculties of the University of Louisville, University of Manitoba and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is a 1973 graduate of Panjab University in India, holds a master's degree in production management earned in 1974 from Brunel University, West London, and earned a Ph.D. in management sciences in 1976 from the University of Bradford in England.

Gupta is married with two sons.

[Updated January 2008]