Academics

Soumitra Dutta New Dean of Cornell’s B-School

Soumitra Dutta, a professor of business and technology and founder and faculty director of a new media and technology innovation lab at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, will become the eleventh dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University effective July 1, 2012, Cornell President David J. Skorton announced today. In appointing Dutta, Johnson becomes the first major business school in the U.S. to hire a dean from a business school outside the country.