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UNC's Accidental Dean
55924f11e238861c488df17b6d091a14 All Steve Jones (MBA 78) really wanted was a part-time teaching job at his alma mater. Instead, he ended up as dean of UNC Chapel Hills Kenan-Flagler Business School. Im sort of an accidental dean, he joked with the Durham, North Carolina, Herald-Sun (September 23, 2003).
Its not quite as improbable as it seems. Jones grew up in western North Carolina and graduated from Chapel Hill in 1974. After earning his MBA, he worked for General Electric and McKinsey before packing his bags for Australia, where he worked for ANZ, one of the countrys major banks. In 1996, Jones was named CEO of Suncorp Metway Ltd., a leading Australian banking, insurance, and investment funds manager.
Homeward bound with his wife and their four school-age children, Jones planned to take it easy for a while. But the search committee at Kenan-Flagler had other ideas. They figured that his impressive business credentials and international perspective would serve the school well. They were as open to a practitioner for the role as they were for an academic, Jones told the Herald-Sun.
Thrilled to be back home, Jones aims to lead the highly regarded business school to a new level of excellence. This is not a job, he said. Its a labor of love.
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