David Gautschi has been named dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology. Most recently principal and director of research at CCG Group LLC, Gautschi has had a long and significant career in the academic and business arena.

“Dean Gautschi is a thoughtful, energetic, personable, and widely experienced leader,” says Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson. “He brings an outstanding combination of successful teaching, scholarship, consulting, and program leadership to Rensselaer at a time when we are moving boldly into new fields that will be critically important in the 21st century.”

Gautschi began his faculty career at Cornell University, where he served as assistant professor of marketing 1978-1982. To develop an understanding of international business, he worked as an associate professor of marketing at INSEAD, a premier European business school in Fontainebleau, France, where he taught from 1982-1990.

From 1990-1992, Gautschi served as associate professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management, where he continued his research and teaching in the area of strategic marketing decisions, retailing and market systems, and the information and telecommunication industries.

He was recruited to the University of Washington in 1992 as associate professor with tenure, was promoted in 1994 to professor of marketing and international business, and in 1997, was named the Kirby Cramer Scholar in Marketing at the University of Washington. There, Gautschi founded the Global Information and Telecommunications Industry Forum to foster collaboration between industry and curriculum development efforts.

In 2000, Gautschi took a leave of absence to lead a new practice in e-business in the Seattle office of Deloitte & Touche, working with clients on analytical models for strategic positioning, marketing, and management alignment. When the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley federal legislation required that this practice be separated from the firm’s audit practice, Gautschi and a group of fellow consultants created CCG Group LLC to use a laboratory model to help clients anticipate, plan for, and solve problems that arise in the process of adopting new technologies into organizations.

Gautschi received a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Maine, Orono; an MBA in applied statistics from the University of Oregon; and a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

Originally published in Rensselaer Magazine, Fall 2005
Photo by Mark McCarty

Published November 1, 2005