テッパー・スクール・オブ・ビジネス receives $1 Million

Alumna and Faculty Members Jointly Donate $1 Million for New Tepper School of Business Facility

Gunjan Kedia, MSIA ’94, and her husband, Sridhar R. Tayur, a professor of operations management at Tepper have given Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) a $1 million gift to support construction of a new home for the business school as part of the newly established David A. Tepper Quadrangle.

The couple’s gift will help fund construction of a 295,000-square-foot facility, the first structure within the new Tepper Quadrangle. The Quadrangle – designed to promote collaboration across CMU – will be home to several strategically interconnected entities, including the Tepper School, the CMU Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and The Simon Initiative.

For more details, please see the Carnegie Mellon Tepper website. 

$2.5 Million Gift Establishes Operations Research Professorship at Tepper School of Business

The gift by alumnus Adris Zoltners has endowed the inaugural Andris. A. Zoltners Professorship of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Tepper School of Business focused on operations.

Zoltners earned a Ph.D. in operations research at Carnegie Mellon in 1973, founded and co-chairs a global pharmaceutical and biotech sales and marketing consulting firm, ZS Associates, and has served on the faculty of Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management for more than 30 years. 

Hundreds of companies have turned to Zoltners for his expertise in sales force strategy, effectiveness, size, structure, deployment and compensation.

Source: CMU Tepper