Glick Named New Dean of Jones School

William H. Glick, who led the Department of Management at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University to distinction, has been named dean of Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management.

Glick succeeds Gilbert R. Whitaker, who is retiring after eight years as dean, during which time the school attained full accreditation, built and dedicated a new building, and doubled the size of the student body and faculty.

“Bill Glick is the right person to lead the Jones School to the next level of achievement, extending the extraordinary trajectory that Gil Whitaker established,” President David W. Leebron said. “His appointment reflects Rice University’s continued commitment to the very best graduate education in business.”

Rice Provost Eugene Levy cited Glick’s leadership talents and personal qualities. “In addition to his excellence as a teacher and scholar, Bill is widely known for leading important improvements in the undergraduate business program at the University of Texas–Austin and in the management department at Arizona State,” Levy said. “In strengthening these programs, Bill succeeded in attracting outstanding scholars and in implementing strategic high-performance goals. He has a reputation for very high standards, fairness, quiet tenacity, and integrity.”

Glick said he is excited by the opportunities facing the Jones School. “Rice University has a tremendous reputation as one of the nation’s best teaching and research universities, and the Jones School is a rising star among graduate schools of business,” Glick said. “Gil Whitaker has provided excellent leadership to the school during an important growth phase, and I hope to continue his efforts to enhance quality in teaching and research while building the school’s reputation locally and internationally.”

Glick said he looks forward to working with the Jones School Council of Overseers and the Houston business community to identify areas where the school can best serve the community while strengthening its international reputation.

“Houston has a vibrant, globally connected business community that is an exciting arena for any graduate school of management,” Glick said. “In recent years, several competitors have entered segments of this market that are much better served by the Jones School. Thought leaders from the Jones Graduate School of Management will help us deliver more relevant, cutting-edge programs than any competitors.”
Glick served in his position at Arizona State since 1995. During his tenure, he launched a revised undergraduate major in management based on input from recruiters, alumni, executives, and corporate universities, with a new curriculum designed to develop team-skilled, collaborative managers.

Glick’s department took the lead in several custom programs, including the Ford Executive Leadership program, with other clients including General Dynamics, Motorola, Arizona Public Service, ON Semiconductor, and Arizona Department of Health and Human Services. Its faculty led the inaugural class of the Academy of Management Journal’s Hall of Fame with three of 33 members, including Glick; ranked second in the world in the number of frequent authors in the Strategic Management Journal; ranked third in both the number of articles in premier management journals and the number of top scholars in terms of their impact on the field of management; and has representatives on the editorial boards of almost all of the top management journals.

Previous to his service at Arizona State, Glick was associate professor and director of the business honors program at UT, where he increased the size of the honors program to 130 entering students per year from roughly 35, while raising the admissions standards to the top five in such programs internationally.

Glick is author or co-author of numerous journal articles and conference papers and is one of the top 100 authors in management based on citations to research in five top management journals. He served as senior editor of Organizational Science from 1998 to 2004 and has served on the editorial boards of Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Management, Academy of Management Review, and Academy of Management Journal.

He is a member of the Academy of Management, Decision Sciences Institute, Institute for Operations Research, and the Management Sciences and Strategic Management Society.

—Margot Dimond