06-30-2025
Tomorrow marks a historic milestone in the history of the Daniels School of Business.
Our school will officially move from a two-department structure — economics and management — to a nine-department entity: accounting, economics, finance, management information systems, marketing, organizational behavior and human resource management (OBHR), quantitative methods, supply chain and operations management, and strategic management. Faculty in law and ethics will join strategic management, and those in communication will join OBHR.
We believe the new structure will provide agility to allow departments to quickly respond to evolving student, faculty and industry needs. In addition to better aligning with the overall campus structure, it will help us recruit top-tier faculty and open new fundraising and partnership opportunities.
Granting these departments more autonomy both increases accountability in each discipline and helps drive academic excellence and teaching innovation. It also creates a scalable framework for overall school growth to help achieve excellence at scale.
Effective tomorrow, the following faculty members will serve as department heads:
We have organized and run elections of faculty members to three standing committees: curriculum, which will review educational and program-related policies; area, which will ensure a transparent tenure and promotion process; and faculty affairs, which will give me advice as warranted on faculty issues.
This reorganization, which was approved by the Purdue Board of Trustees last December, has been a long and careful process. I’d like to thank all of the faculty members involved, and particularly Mohit Tawarmalani, executive associate dean of faculty, for their work in this needed change.
Demand for a business education at Purdue is at an all-time high. I believe these changes will further enhance growth and reinforce the foundational pillars of the Daniels School: academic prowess, integration of STEM and business, transformational student experience, free market and capitalism, and business partnerships. We’re excited about our new structure, and we look forward to reaching greater heights as a global business education leader.
Jim Bullard joined Purdue in 2023 as the Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Daniels School of Business. Under his leadership, while enhancing its footprint on campus with a new 164,000-square-foot facility, the school is expanding its reach with a cohort beginning this fall in Indianapolis in the popular Integrated Business and Engineering program.
