Priority 2: Improve the Impact of Our Research
Questrom will build our academic departments and research institutes as ecosystems for disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, both basic and applied, with the goal of impacting the way business is done, the policies that affect business, and the value creating role of business in society.
Priority 2 Objectives & Initiatives
Objective
Recruit and retain strong research faculty at all ranks
2.1.1
Enhance candidate pools to better represent the wide spectrum of individual backgrounds and experiences
2.1.2
Secure funding for new and fill existing endowed chairs
2.1.3
Advance hiring efforts for non-tenure track professorial faculty and lecturers with PhDs
2.1.4
Strengthen the assistant professor mentorship program
Objective
2.2
Conduct impactful research that studies the role of business in markets and society and advances business practice
2.2.1
Implement programs to incentivize A+ journal publications, high-profile interdisciplinary research, and practitioner outlets with high-visibility
2.2.2
Advance Insights@Questrom research promotion strategy
2.2.3
Implement workshop series to help faculty build a research profile centered on impact and visibility
2.2.4
Develop opportunities for PhD students to engage with industry and institutes to support the research enterprise
2.2.5
Develop and implement opportunities to connect junior researchers to industry
Objective
2.3
Increase total research funding sourced from non-tuition revenue share sources
2.3.1
Identify donors and develop specific development plans for each of the institutes
2.3.2
Launch profit generating lifelong learning offerings from the institutes
2.3.3
Develop and submit interdisciplinary and multi-PI research funding proposals to build a support infrastructure and to develop PhDs and post-doctoral fellows
2.3.4
Develop and implement an institute partners program
Objective
2.4
Deliver a portfolio of non-degree offerings, each individually optimized, and collectively contributing to the success of the school
2.4.1
Implement and refine summer research support system through the institute fellows program
2.4.2
Design and execute a portfolio of institute events and conferences
Objective
2.5
Expand the portfolio of research institutes and centers of excellence
2.5.1
Secure endowment funding to launch the Institute for Business, Markets, & Society
2.5.2
Explore the launch of an Institute on Integrated Risk
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