Harvard Professor Becomes Dean at Georgetown McDonough School of Business

David A. Thomas, professor and former associate dean at Harvard Business School will become the new dean of Georgetown University McDonough School of Business as of August 1st, 2011.  Thomas is a professor of Business Administration and directs Harvard's Organizational Behavior Unit; he was also a former professor at the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania.  Thomas holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale and Columbia Universities, respectively.

Thomas is now the third high profile HBS professor to take over the top position at prominent business schools over the last several months, as professor John Quelch became the vice president and dean at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Dec. 2010, and long-time HBS finance professor and social entrepreneur Peter Tufano became the dean at the University of Oxford, Said Business School in Nov. 2010.