A new study led by Chandra Srivastava, an assistant professor of marketing at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas, and a lecturer in marketing at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, finds that women in executive-level management are more likely than men to focus on customer relationships, leading some companies to greater long-term financial performance.
Dr. Fuentes has been serving as professor of statistics and executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa. Earlier, she served on the faculty at North Carolina State University and was dean of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University.
The three women who are retiring are Gertrud Schupbach, a professor of biology at Princeton University, Joan Hopkins, an associate athletic director at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Donna Jurick, a long-time administrator at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
Marsha Kelliher has been serving as dean of the Sigmund Weis School of Business at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Earlier, she was dean of the School of Management and Business at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.
