The Dyson School administration—including our deans, program directors, and area coordinators—are renowned experts and industry-leading professionals. Together, with the rest of the Dyson faculty and staff, our leadership team guides our students through enriching academic experiences and into successful careers of doing business for good.
Jinhua Zhao is a strong believer in collective excellence. Collaboration and inclusion, he says, are essential to generating ideas, expanding frontiers, and training future leaders. Passionate about using business skills to solve society’s most pressing issues, Zhao’s research interests include global climate change and technology adoption.
Dean Jinhua Zhao envisions a more diverse Dyson: an innovative, collaborative place where cross-disciplinary research reigns and future business leaders are inspired to impact society in positive ways. Specifically, Dean Zhao’s vision for the school is two-fold: He wants to double down on the “our business is a better world” ethos and he wants to ensure Dyson fulfills its mission to prepare tomorrow’s leaders to apply business and economic principles to address the toughest societal challenges. His four goals will get the school there.
We achieve impact through our graduates and discoveries, locally and globally.
We equip leaders with the skills to promote inclusive and sustainable prosperity across the globe.
Our graduates become rigorous and integrative thinkers, innovative leaders, engaged and globally aware citizens, and continuous learners.
Our research, teaching, and engagement activities inject innovation and impact into everything we do through creative, rigorous, and relevant inquiry that improves our teaching.
Innovation happens when everyone’s ideas are heard, valued, and supported. Dyson embraces the diversity of faculty, staff, and students across the school, the College of Business, and the greater Cornell community. A range of enriching events, programs, and resources help foster a culture of belonging and develop principled and purposeful leaders.
Our advisory councils strengthen academics, expand internship and career opportunities, and deepen our connection with the business community at large by bringing in diverse perspectives from students, alumni, and industry professionals.
The Dyson Executive Committee consists of academic leaders from the school who work collaboratively with the dean and the faculty body to innovate coursework, lead, and intellectually challenge students through rigorous courses and educational experiences.
The Dyson Staff Leadership Team is a dynamic group of professionals from the school and the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Selected by the dean, these individuals have a vested interest in the operational and programmatic management of the school and work to ensure that the Dyson School is an organizational masterpiece.
This team of undergraduate students was established in Spring 2022 with the express purpose of advising the Dyson Dean and other school leaders on the issues that matter most to our undergraduate student body. The members of Dean’s Student Advisory Council purposefully span class years, backgrounds, and interests to best represent the variety within the Dyson student body as a whole.
The Dyson Advisory Council is comprised of alumni, employers, parents, friends, and other business leaders use their professional experience to guide and support Dyson academics, career development, fundraising, and overall strategy.
Alumni provide critical input to the school. The Dyson Recent Alumni Council, made up of alumni who’ve graduated within the past 10 years, advises school leaders, mentors students, provides admissions and recruitment guidance, and contributes to fundraising and inclusion efforts.
Members of the Agribusiness Advisory Council hail from a variety of farms, companies, trade organizations, financial institutions, and government agencies. They use their business acumen and expertise in food and agriculture to guide coursework and career development.
Dyson faculty, staff, students, and alumni use their knowledge, skills, and creativity to solve real-world problems locally, nationally, and globally. Read about the collaboration, innovation, service, and more happening at Dyson and beyond.
The “Food for Thought Series,” a program launched in the fall of 2023, is intended to destigmatize lived experiences and offer the chance to address controversial topics.
Dyson Assistant Professor Laura Niemi's research shows regular exposure to even subtle prejudice and discrimination degrades physical and mental health.
Dyson student Mikhail Essa's goal is to work with Cornell Dining to have more kosher and halal food available at dining locations throughout campus.
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