James R. Freeland - Professional Story
Sponsors Professor of Business Administration
 
Jim Freeland is a faculty member in the Technology and Operations Management area at the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Management.  He currently teaches in the full time MBA program and the EMBA (Executive MBA Program). 

From 1993 to 2012 he served as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research (2010-2012) and A
sociate Dean for Faculty before that.  In the Dean's Office he worked with five different deans and also had  three stints with interim deans. Major accomplishments during his 19 years in the Dean’s Office include hiring over 61 new faculty, increasing the diversity of the Darden faculty substantially, having Darden consistently  rated as having the best teaching faculty, significantly increasing the research productivity, and promoting evidence-based decision making to create a climate of equity and transparency for the faculty.  

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 research projects focus on designing and managing systems that recognize individuals often behave predictably irrational and on economic inequality.