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KRISHNA DHIR, PHD, FORS
Dean, College of Business and Economics
University of Hawaii at Hilo
(706) 346-5066; [email protected]
KRISHNA S. DHIR is the Dean of the College of Business and Economics at the University of
Hawai’i at Hilo. He is also Emeritus Professor of Management at Berry College in Mount Berry,
Georgia, where he was Dean of the Campbell School of Business and, subsequently, the Henry
Gund Professor of Business Administration. Prior to that, at The Pennsylvania State University at
Harrisburg, he held the S.B.A. Professorship and served as the Director of the School of Business
Administration. He steered both these institutions to their respective Initial Accreditation by the
AACSB International. He has also served as an AACSB-appointed Mentor on initial accreditation.
Dr. Dhir was visiting professor at universities in Australia, Hungary, India, and the United
Kingdom, and has taught at various universities in the United States.
Dr. Dhir has over 13 years of cumulative corporate experience, as a Vice President at BioStar
Medical Products Inc, in Boulder, Colorado; an executive of CIBA-GEIGY AG (now Novartis) in
Basle, Switzerland; and a pilot plant engineer with Borg-Warner Chemicals' International Division
in Parkersburg, West Virginia. He was the President of the Decision Sciences Institute during
2011-2012 and a member of its Board of Directors from 2005 to 2013, and was honored by the
Institute in 2008 with its prestigious Dennis E. Grawoig Distinguished Service Award.
Dr. Dhir received the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg's 2001 James A. Jordan Jr.
Award for Teaching Excellence awarded by its Student Government Association, and 2000
Excellence in Teaching Award awarded by its Provost. His research interests include analysis of the
role of subjectivity in the policy formulation process. He received the BestApplication Paper Award
at the 1999 International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute in Athens, Greece; and the
Best Theoretical/ Empirical Research Paper Award at the 1993 Annual Conference of the Decision
Sciences Institute in Washington, DC. He is a recipient of the Gold Medal of the St. John
Ambulance Association of India.
Dr. Dhir’s book, The Dean’s Perspective: Issues in Academic Leadership in Schools of Business,
was published by the Decision Sciences Institute in 2009. Its Japanese translation is to be published
in 2011 by Chuo-Keizai-Sha of Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Dhir has published in a number of journals and
contributed chapters in numerous books. Dr. Dhir is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society
(FORS) in UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Management Science and Administrative Policy from the
University of Colorado in Boulder, an M.B.A. in Business Administration from the University of
Hawai’i; an M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Physiology from Michigan State University, and a
B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.