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Richard L. Daniels, who joined the Terry College of Business in May from Georgia Tech’s  DuPree College of Management, is the new associate dean for executive programs in the Terry College of Business.
With Daniels’s appointment to the newly created position, the college also announced a name change for the college’s Corporate Education Office, now the Office of Executive Programs.
“With Rich Daniels’s hiring, we look forward to developing and delivering executive education programs across the state and around the world. We plan to become a major player in the lifelong learning business,” says P. George Benson, dean of the Terry College. “And this more sophisticated administrative structure supports our strategic objective to better integrate the Terry College with the business community in Georgia and beyond. That objective can no longer be accomplished by doing business only in Athens.
“Rich’s experience with Georgia Tech’s executive programs and his understanding of Atlanta’s business community will be valuable assets to our existing and emerging executive programs,” Benson says. “He’s also a top-notch scholar in operations management.”
For the past five years, Daniels was involved in the development and management of the executive master’s degree program in the management of technology at Georgia Tech. He most recently served as program director, and he was the program’s faculty director from 1995 to 1997. He also teaches executive courses in operations management, project management, service operations and quantitative methods, and was promoted to full professor of operations management at Georgia Tech last year.
“Everything that I’ve heard from the faculty indicates that my confidence in the potential for executive programs at the Terry College is well-placed,” Daniels says. “As a Tech faculty member, my greatest fear was that the University of Georgia would get into executive education in a big way. With its alumni base to work from, UGA is the 800-lb. gorilla in this state.
“I think continuing education is something business schools have a responsibility to do as a service for the business community. The higher tuition charged for executive programs is a great source of revenue for schools, but also raises customers’ expectations as to what they get out of the program.”
From 1986 to 1993, Daniels was a member of the operations management faculty at Duke University. He has published more than 20 articles, including papers in Operations Research and Management Science. Daniels received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1986.
For many years, the Corporate Education Office has sponsored industry conferences and educational programs around the state with assistance from Terry College faculty. Among the programs are the annual Georgia Economic Outlook luncheon series and professional conferences such as the Bonbright Center Energy Conference and the Trucking Profitability Strategies Conference.
Daniels says the name change to Office of Executive Programs reflects the college’s intent to broaden its offerings to include executive and part-time degree programs and non-degree short courses.
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