All The New Faculty At The Top U.S. Business Schools In 2022

Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in college men’s basketball history, is among the “new” instructors at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Krzyzewski won’t teach a class but will be “involved in larger efforts in how we teach leadership,” a spokesperson says. Duke photo

THE BIGGEST STAR

Every year when the leading business schools announce their new faculty, some names stand out: the “stars” of the classroom. This year was no different.

Harvard Business School hired several corporate stars. So did the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas-Austin. Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business raised some eyebrows with their hire of two professors of “acting and business communication.” Georgetown McDonough School of Business was one of a few schools to nab one of Poets&Quants‘ 40-Under-40 profs: Ho-Yin Mak, formerly of Oxford.

But no school could top what Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business did. They hired the biggest star of all: Coach K, Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in men’s college basketball history.

Krzyzewski retired this year after 42 seasons as the Blue Devils’ head coach, having won 1,129 games and five national championships. He also coached three gold-medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic teams. The co-author of five books including New York Times best-seller “Leading with the Heart,” Krzyzewski will serve as a professor of the practice in Business Administration at the Fuqua School while continuing to serve in his leadership capacity with the Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics.

Will Coach K be teaching MBAs this year? Not in a classroom setting. According to a Fuqua spokesperson he won’t be teaching a class but will be involved in larger efforts in how the school teaches leadership.