Kenneth W Freeman To Speak At Carey Business School Graduation

Main navigation Johns Hopkins Legacy Online programs Faculty Directory Experiential studying Career resources Alumni mentoring program Util Nav CTA CTA Breadcrumb Kenneth W. Freeman to Speak at Carey Business School Graduation Kenneth W. Freeman, Allen Questrom Professor and Dean at Boston University, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School's graduation ceremony, Tuesday, May 22, 2018, on the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. Kenneth W. Freeman, Allen Questrom Professor and Dean in Management at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, is the featured speaker on the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s graduation ceremony, Tuesday, May 22, on the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. “Ken Freeman is an exemplary chief in both business and academia. He has been a champion of enterprise schooling throughout his career and we're proud that he will be our commencement speaker,” stated Bernard T. Ferrari, dean of the Carey Business School. Freeman was appointed the Allen Questrom Professor and Dean of Boston University Questrom School of Business in 2010. A research of global business management performed on the internationally renowned INSEAD busine ss college and revealed within the January 2013 concern of the Harvard Business Review named him one of the a hundred finest-performing CEOs on the planet. Freeman started his profession at Corning Incorporated in 1972, progressing through the monetary operate earlier than leading a number of of its companies. He joined Corning Clinical Laboratories in 1995, and the company was spun off from Corning as Quest Diagnostics Incorporated quickly thereafter. He led the dramatic turnaround of Quest Diagnostics as chairman and chief govt officer via 2004. In 2005, Freeman joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), serving as a managing director and companion until his appointment as Dean at Boston University. From 2010 through 2013, he was a senior advisor to KKR, serving on the agency’s portfolio administration committee. Freeman acquired an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School in 1976, and a BSBA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Bucknell University in 1972, where he is Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Freeman is the lead director of Laureate Education, director and former chairman of the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), and a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Business Practices Council. Accredited by the AACSB, the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School is the business faculty of Johns Hopkins University. Established in 2007, the Carey Business School’s mission supports enterprise knowledge improvement and schooling via its own initiatives, improvements, and collaborative applications across Johns Hopkins University. Carey creates and shares data that shapes business practices while educating enterprise leaders who will grow economies and societies, and are exemplary citizens. Posted a hundred International Drive