Welcome Dean Siegel to the School of Business  

The School of Business has a new dean, Dr. Donald S. Siegel, former Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California.  No stranger to the Capital Region, Siegel made his home at RPI from 2002 – 2006, serving as Professor and Chair of Economics. 

His interests include university technology transfer, economics and strategic implications of entrepreneurship and technological change, productivity analysis, and corporate social responsibility.  

Siegel is already planning a conference. The Technology Transfer Society, a non-profit organization devoted to the interdisciplinary scholarly analysis of technology transfer from universities and federal laboratories to firms, will hold its annual conference at the University at Albany in October. Dr. Siegel is president of the organization and co-edits the associated Journal of Technology Transfer.  

Dr. Siegel holds a Ph.D. in business economics from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. 

View his bio here and his academic and professional experience here.