Poets&Quants names the 14th dean of the year SACRAMENTO, Calif. , Oct. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Poets&Quants unveiled its Dean of the Year for 2024 .
This year's honor was awarded to H. Rao Unnava , the current dean at the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management. Named for his ambitious change agenda and decisive unpresuming leadership, the 65-year-old marketing professor is the 14th dean to earn this honor, joining a stellar cast of academic talent over the years that has included the leaders of Harvard Business School , Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Yale School of Management, Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management to name a few.
Unnava joined the Graduate School of Management in June of 2016 following 32 years at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, where he earned his Ph.D. and most recently served as the W.
Arthur Cullman professor of marketing. At the Fisher College of Business, Unnava also served as the associate dean of undergraduate programs, associate dean of executive education, and director of doctoral programs in business. "Since becoming dean of UC Davis Graduate School of Management in June of 2026, H.
Rao Unnava has led a revolution in innovation," said John A. Byrne , editor-in-chief at Poets&Quants, "From new partnerships with other schools and departments to new degrees. Nearly 70% of this year's 441 incoming graduate students are in programs created under his watch" "The hardest thing is moving things.