Dezsö J. Horváth

Dezsö Joseph Horváth, CM is a Canadian businessman and educator. He is the dean of York University's Schulich School of Business. Outside of academia, he is on the boards of various corporations, including Dofasco, Inscape Corporation, and Westport Innovations.

Horváth received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963 from Malmö Technical Institute in Malmö, Sweden, after which he began working as a researcher at ASEA (now ABB), a Swiss-Swedish multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. He also continued his postgraduate studies at University of Umeå in Sweden, receiving an MBA in 1967, a PhD in Organizational Studies in 1972, and a PhD in Policy in 1976.

From 1963 to 1968, Horváth worked as an R&D engineer at ASEA, now known as ABB Group.

After leaving ASEA to pursue a career in academia, Horváth worked as a sessional lecturer at University of Umeå, teaching business administration students. He received his professorship at Umeå in 1972 along with his first Doctorate in Business Administration. In 1976 his academic career at York University started when he joined the Faculty of Administrative Studies as a visiting professor. One year later, he began to work as an associate professor at the same school. He was then appointed as the dean of the Schulich School of Business in 1988, and remains the dean to the present.

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