Michael R. Cooper Appointed Dean of Rutgers Business School (RBS)

Michael R. Cooper Appointed Dean of Rutgers Business School (RBS)

June 15, 2007

    NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. and BEIJING, June 15
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- President Richard L. McCormick has
announced the appointment of the distinguished business
leader Michael R. Cooper as dean of Rutgers Business
School. The appointment is effective June 1, 2007.  The
Rutgers Business School, a global leader in business
education, offers an International Executive MBA in
Beijing, Shanghai and Dalian. 

    Rosa Oppenheim, who has served as acting dean since
July 2006, will resume her position as associate dean for
faculty and research and professor of management science
and information systems. She will also continue to teach in
the Beijing and Shanghai International Executive MBA
programs. 

    "Michael Cooper will be an outstanding dean,"
said Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick. "His
leadership will help us to capitalize on the enormous
potential of the Rutgers Business School to reach new
heights of academic excellence." 

    "The appointment of Michael Cooper as dean of
Rutgers Business School is a very significant
development," commented Rutgers-Newark Provost Steven
J. Diner. "We are confident that his strong record of
leadership, exemplified by his successes in the business
world in growing and differentiating his global companies,
will enable a new era of growth and progress for Rutgers
Business School." 

    Cooper has 25 years of leadership experience in senior
executive positions in international market research,
marketing services, management consulting and technology
companies. "I'm honored to have been selected as
business dean at such a venerated and prominent university
as Rutgers," Cooper said. "I look forward to
working with the faculty, administration and students, and,
in particular, to advancing the reputation of the school in
order to bring it into line with the school's outstanding
quality of teaching and scholarship." 

    Since 1999 Cooper has been chair and managing partner
of Cooper Interests LLC, which he founded to provide
private equity investments and business strategy counsel in
selective early and mid-stage companies. From 1989 to 1999,
he served as chair, president and chief executive officer
of Opinion Research Corporation (ORC), which he took public
on the NASDAQ. Prior to ORC, he was president of Hay
Research for Management for 10 years and senior partner of
The Hay Group. 

    In academia, Cooper served from 2002 to 2004 as
founding dean of the Executive Leadership Institute and
associate dean of the Howe School of Technology Management
at the Stevens Institute of Technology. 

    Much earlier in his career he taught at Suffolk
University Graduate School of Business. He completed
executive education at Harvard Business School and received
his doctorate in industrial and organizational psychology
from The Ohio State University in 1972, and a bachelor's
degree in psychology from Hofstra University. 

    Rutgers University has operated in China longer than
any other American university. It offers a 14-month
International Executive MBA in Dalian, Shanghai and
Beijing. Rutgers' prestige and international reputation
have been leveraged into a program of uncompromising
quality and relevance. Annually the course content is
changed by approximately 40% to ensure that students are
getting a program that reflects the constantly changing
technology-driven business world. 

    The EMBA program in China mirrors that offered in the
United States and to ensure a consistent quality in the
content and delivery all the professors are flown from the
United States to teach the courses. 

    A typical EMBA class is comprised of 10 to 12 different
nationalities making it one of the truly international and
diverse programs currently available in China. The program
also has a very unique design that minimizes time away from
the office and maximizes course content retention. 

    The Rutgers EMBA class of 2008 will begin in July 2007
in Shanghai and September 2007 in Beijing. Applications are
currently being accepted for both classes.



    For more information on Rutgers and the Executive MBA
programs in China, please contact:

     Kelly Brantner
     Executive Project Manager, Beijing
     Tel:   [phone]/13 x18
 
     Tracy Pang
     Recruitment Manager, Shanghai
     Tel:   [phone]/8711 x12 
 
     Web:   http://www.rutgers.cn