WrittenPublished by: University of San Diego
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Extracted Content: The University of San Diego has appointed Tim Keane, a former Fortune 500 executive and technology entrepreneur, to lead their School of Business. Keane’s private sector experience includes 20 years in marketing at Anheuser-Busch where he founded a business analytics department. He left the company to launch a software venture that became a Microsoft Joint Development Partner and was later sold to a Canadian firm.
Dr. Keane entered academe in 2004 at Rockhurst University in Kansas City. He was named a Ewing Marion Kauffman Entrepreneurial Scholar and launched the Helzberg School of Management’s Center for Leadership and Ethics. Keane moved to Saint Louis University to lead the business school’s ethics initiatives, where he led a cross-disciplinary team in launching one of the first sustainability research centers in the nation. Prior to joining the USD team, Dr. Keane was the founding dean of a new college of business in Denver at Regis University. He led the cultivation of the largest gift in the university’s history to name the new business school.