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Dr. Avinandan Mukherjee Appointed Dean of the College of Business
— John Shiffert
Dr. Avinandan (Avi) Mukherjee has been
appointed to the position of Dean of the AACSB-
accredited College of Business at Clayton State
University, effective Aug. 1, 2014. He replaced Dr.
Michael Deis, who returned to his faculty position
as professor of Management, having served as
interim dean since January 2013.
“I am honored to have been chosen as the dean
of the College of Business at Clayton State Univer-
sity and excited about this new leadership oppor-
tunity,” says Mukherjee. “I look forward to leading
this vibrant and growing College of Business with
an amazing team of faculty and staff who are
dedicated to the success of our students. The
College of Business at Clayton State University
will continue to grow with innovative programs,
engaged learning initiatives and enhanced
regional partnerships. It is well positioned to
prepare tomorrow’s business leaders for Atlanta
and the world."
Since 2008, Mukherjee served as the chairperson
of the Department of Marketing in the School of
Business at Montclair State University in New
Jersey. In that role, he led a multi-pronged
comprehensive transformation of the department,
which resulted in the Marketing Department
becoming the largest department in the school in
number of programs and number of graduating
students. His accomplishments include growing
the student enrollment by 85 percent and faculty
strength by 55 percent, launching a new program
in Sports, Events and Tourism, introducing a
radically-new MBA curriculum on and
off-campus, and generating a record level of
student awards and scholarships.
Mukherjee brings with him a uniquely international
academic experience. Prior to joining Montclair
State, he had been a full-time faculty member of
Marketing at the Pennsylvania State University,
the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom,
Nanyang Technological University in Singapore,
and the Indian Institute of Management in
Calcutta. He served as the director of Studies of
the Executive MBA Program at University of Brad-
ford, and the chairperson of Computer Services at
Indian Institute of Management. He has also been
a visiting faculty member at Rutgers Business
School (in Newark, N.J., Beijing, Shanghai, and
Singapore), INSEAD (France), Copenhagen
Business School (Denmark), ESC Toulouse
(France), Nordic International Management
Institute (China), and Kathmandu University
(Nepal).
Mukherjee earned his Ph.D. in Marketing at the
Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad,
India, which is consistently ranked among the
Top 100 Business Schools across the world. Part
of his doctoral work was conducted at ESSEC
Business School in Paris and his research was
affiliated to the International Motor Vehicle
Program of the MIT Sloan School of Manage-
ment.
He is the editor-in-chief of the International
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare
Marketing, a leading specialist reference
resource of academic information and analysis,
highlighting cutting edge research, new
concepts and theories, and fresh practical ideas
and initiatives that can be readily applied in the
pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. In
addition, Mukherjee has published more than
100 refereed articles in scholarly journals,
conference proceedings and edited books and
his published research papers have been cited
more than 1800 times by fellow researchers and
scholars.
Mukherjee has been a member of the board of
several organizations and president of the
Business and Health Administration Association.
He has also supervised six doctoral disserta-
tions and was competitively chosen at Montclair
State University as the only doctoral faculty from
the School of Business in the Environmental
Management Doctoral Program.
The College of
Business at
Clayton State
University will
continue to grow
with innovative
programs,
engaged learning
initiatives and
enhanced regional
partnerships. It is
well positioned to
prepare
tomorrow’s
business leaders
for Atlanta and the
world.
In his first semester as dean,
the College of Business at
Clayton State, SunTrust and
the University joined together
to dedicate the College’s
SunTrust-sponsored
Business Ticker and
Financial News Display. The
dedication of the ticker was
followed by the Dean’s
Distinguished Speaker Series
Inaugural Kick-off Event,
“Lighting the Way to
Financial Well-Being,”
presented by E. Jenner
Wood III, chairman, president
and CEO of SunTrust Bank,
Atlanta Division.
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