James R. Freeland - Professional Story Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research Sponsors Professor of Business Administration

Jim Freeland has served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research since this position was created in 2010.  Formerly he was Associate Dean for Faculty at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia since April 1993.  He is now working with Bob Bruner, the fifth dean he has served.  He also worked three stints with interim deans.  Through 2010 he has been involved in hiring 59 new faculty, 42 of which are now on the faculty of 71 full time members.   Of the 42 currently on the faculty, 14 are women, 7 are under represented minorities, and 14 are international.  As Associate Dean, he has been involved in decisions resulting in 34 tenured faculty and 22 promotions to full professor. The number of part time faculty has increased from 27 to 38 during his his tenure.  He has served during the time that three program expansions of taken place:  adding a fifth section, starting the MBA for Executives Program, and starting the Global EMBA Program.  He was awarded the Sponsors Professorship of Business Administration in 1992.  The Professorship honors the individuals who led the University's effort to establish the first graduate business school in the South.  He grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and received a B.S.I.E. from Bradley University and M.S.I.E. and Ph. D. From Georgia Tech. He taught as an instructor at Georgia Tech before joining the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1973. He left Stanford as an Associate Professor of Decision Sciences to join the Darden School in 1979. At the Darden School he has taught in the quantitative analysis and operations areas. He has served in many administrative roles including Operations Area Coordinator, Director of the Ph. D. Program, and coordinator of the electives curriculum in the MBA program's second year. He is the author of numerous technical and managerial papers in operations management and management science. He also has consulted with many companies on topics in the operations area.  His most recent interest is designing and managing systems that recognize individuals often behave predictably irrational.