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SMG and SHA Deans to Retire

Louis Lataif elevated and improved SMG; James Stamas led SHA expansion

| From Commonwealth | By Art Jahnke

In the slide show above, revisit SMG Dean Louis Lataif’s undergraduate years at BU.

Louis Lataif, former top Ford Motor Company executive and dean of the School of Management for eighteen years of climbing enrollment and ratings, will retire at the end of the 2009–2010 academic year.

Lataif, the school’s first Allen Questrom Professor and Dean, says he is stepping down to allow the appointment of a new dean who can provide continuity as the school moves into a multiyear capital campaign.

“I am thrilled to have been a part of the school’s transformation, particularly curricular reforms that fuse the art, science, and technology of business,” says Lataif (SMG’61, Hon.’90).

Louis Lataif

Lataif first came to BU as an undergraduate in the fall of 1957.

In 1961, he was chosen as the Universit