Douglas M. (Doug) Dunn

Doug Dunn, served as the Tepper School's seventh dean. He led the school into the ‘information age’ and helped the MBA program reach a #2 world ranking by the Wall Street Journal. His career also included conducting groundbreaking research at Bell Laboratories’ Mathematics Research Center and holding subsequent regional, regulatory, and strategic positions at AT&T.

Dunn earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and master’s in information management from Georgia Tech and his Ph.D. in Statistics and Business from the University of Michigan. He began his career at Bell Labs, focusing on time series analysis, graphical methods, and robust statistical techniques, and moved on to AT&T management, spending 26 years there until his retirement. 

He became dean of the Tepper School in 1996, championing the use of information technology and communication networks, preparing the school for the digital era. His leadership highlighted faculty recruitment and support, expanding global partnerships, pioneering the country’s first graduate degree program in electronic commerce, and implementing key capital improvements for the larger Tepper School community before he left in 2002 to retire to Las Vegas.

He passed away on April 11, 2024 at the age of 81.