Guru Mantra: Dean David Finegold, Rutgers, New Jersey

Prof. David Finegold
Dean, School of Management and Labor Relations
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Prof. David Finegold is Dean of Rutgers’ School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR). He is a leading expert on skill development systems and their relationship to economic performance and corporate governance. His two main current research projects focus on: 1) Skill Development for the 21st Century Workforce – focusing on the rapidly evolving education and training system of India and China, and 2) Building Sustainable Organizations – focusing on governance of capitalism in the global economy and the emergence of alternative organizational forms to the for-profit public corporation. He is the author of more than 80 journal articles and book chapters and has written or edited six books, including Are Skills the Answer? (with Colin Crouch and Mari Sako), Corporate Boards: Adding Value at the Top (with Jay Conger and Ed Lawler) and BioIndustry Ethics (Elsevier Academic Press, 2005). Prior to joining Rutgers he was a professor at the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) of Applied Life Sciences in Claremont, CA, where he helped to build the first college devoted specifically to creating a best-in-class professional science masters program. Since arriving at Rutgers in 2006, Dean Finegold has adapted the KGI model to a leading research university, taking the lead in creating the new Master of Business and Science, the first Rutgers-wide degree that is designed to prepare individuals to help bring innovations to market. He has also spearheaded wider efforts to build a workforce development system for New Jersey’s bioscience sector by bringing education and industry together from across the state (www.bio-one.org). He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Social Studies, from Harvard University in 1985, and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University,where he completed his DPhil in Politics in 1992.


This week I interviewed  Prof. David Finegold, Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He shares some very insightful perspectives on:
- foreign universities bill
- current work and interests in India
- critical success factors for building academic partnerships
- nature of academic leadership



What are your thoughts or comments on Prof. Finegold's perspectives?

- Dr. Rahul Choudaha