Monday, February 16, 2009

Tadepalli named Babson’s dean of graduate business school

By Brendan Lynch

Babson College reports it has named Raghu Tadepalli dean of the Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business.

Tadepalli will start the job on July 1. Tadepalli most recently served as dean of the graduate school of business at Xavier University in Cincinatti. Tadepalli has a doctorate in philosophy from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Arizona State University and both a master’s degree and bachelor’s degree in commerce from Andhra University in India.

Before working at Xavier, Tadepalli taught at North Dakota State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tadepalli’s research focuses on buyer and seller role perceptions, and group influences on buyer center decisions. He has taught marketing strategy, sales management, professional selling, international marketing, business-to-business marketing and product development and strategy.