Michael Ginzberg, a nationally prominent expert and prolific author on management information systems and the international aspects of business, was named dean of Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University on July 16, 2007.

Prior to joining Yeshiva University, Dr. Ginzberg helped build both the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management into world-class research, teaching, and training departments. He served from 2000 to 2006 as dean of the Lerner College, where he was also the Chaplin Tyler Professor of Business.

He has served since 2006 as a pro bono special consultant to the president of Tulane University in New Orleans, helping develop a strategy and implementation plan for a new school of science and engineering.

At the University of Delaware, Dr. Ginzberg’s tenure as the Lerner College dean was highlighted by the establishment of the John Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance and introducing graduate programs in the management of systems and technology and organizational change. He also developed a graduate school of business in Sarajevo.

Prior to that deanship, Dr. Ginzberg served as a professor and associate dean of the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve, where he built one of the nation’s top information systems research departments and established an interdisciplinary center for research and teaching, exchange programs with business schools in European and Latin America, and an MBA program in partnership with the International Management Center in Budapest.

Dr. Ginzberg, who also has held faculty positions at Columbia University and New York University, earned his doctorate in management in 1975 from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His MBA in economic analysis is from Iona College and his undergraduate degree is from MIT.

A native of Cincinnati who grew up in South Florida and Westchester County, New York, Dr. Ginzberg has held leadership positions in various professional organizations.

He is the author and/or editor of more than 50 articles and books on information systems development and management, information technology strategy, and organizational change, and the recipient of a number of major grants.

Dr. Ginzberg also has served on the board of the Jewish Federation of Delaware; Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, DE; Hillel at the University of Delaware; Bellefaire Jewish Children’s Bureau; and Congregation Bethaynu in Ohio.

He and his wife, Rosemary, have two sons.