From the fall 2008 issue of UConn Momentum
The School of Business hosted an investiture ceremony on October 17 to officially confer Dean Christopher Earley the Auran J. Fox Chair in Business.
Earley is an internationally recognized leader in business education and research. Prior to joining UConn in January, Earley was the dean and Cycle & Carriage Professor at the National University of Singapore School of Business. He also previously held chairs at London Business School and Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and professorships at top institutions around the world, including Sasin Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Irvine, among others.
Earley earned a B.A. from Knox College. He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
The Auran J. Fox Chair in Business was established by Keith R. Fox ’80, who led the international dean search with fellow alumnus Denis Nayden ’76 (B.A.) ’77 (M.B.A.) and Ross MacKinnon, retired dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Fox graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the School of Business. He was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2001 in honor of his professional and entrepreneurial success. Fox, who currently runs the Keith and Pam Fox Family Foundation, previously was founder and chief executive officer of Brandsoft—a consulting and software company—and vice president of worldwide corporate marketing at Cisco Systems. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the UConn Foundation.
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