KAIST Business School aims to be Asia’s best

With a touch of multinational variety, the KAIST Business School aims to become the top business school in Asia within a few years, said Ravi Kumar, dean of the school.

Kumar, from India, was invited by KAIST president Seo Nam-pyo to lead the business school last year when he was spending his sabbatical leave in Korea while working in the University of Southern California, School of Business. He thus became the first foreigner to become dean of a Korean business school.

“I took interest in Korea as the people’s culture and behavior was very unique and the society was changing at an unprecedented speed,” he told The Korea Herald.

“All the social and economic changes were so visible here.”

Ravi Kumar, dean of KAIST Business School