Donald Jacobs (22 June 192730 October 2017) was a dean emeritus of

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. He was a dean of the school for 26 years, from 1975 to 2001.

Early life

Jacobs was born in the west side of

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, and attended Austin High School.

Education

Jacobs graduated with a BA in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

from

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in 1949. Subsequently he obtained an MA in economics from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

(1951) and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

in economics from Columbia University in 1956.

Career

Kellogg School of Management

At Kellogg School of Management, Jacobs was a faculty member from 1957 to 2017 and taught

finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

, including

international finance International finance (also referred to as international monetary economics or international macroeconomics) is the branch of financial economics broadly concerned with monetary and macroeconomic interrelations between two or more countries. Inter ...

and

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. He served as a dean at the Kellogg school for 26 years from 1975 to 2001, during which time he led the school to become one of the top

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s in the world. He had been a Dean Emeritus of the school since 2001.

Personal life

Jacobs died at

Evanston Hospital NorthShore University HealthSystem (formerly Evanston Northwestern Healthcare or ENH) is an integrated healthcare delivery system serving patients throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. NorthShore encompasses six hospitals, as of late 2021 — ...

on October 30th, 2017, at the age of 90.

References

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