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Richard G. Brandenburg Senior Advisor Richard G. Brandenburg was appointed Professor Emeritus in May 2002 at the University of Vermont, where he previously was Professor of Business Administration and Senior Advisor to the Provost. He taught undergraduate courses in business policy/strategy and graduate courses in health care management and policy. From 1992-1994 he served as the first chairman of the Vermont Health Care Authority. Prior to his appointment to this position by Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Mr. Brandenburg was Dean of the School of Business Administration and of the Division of Engineering, Mathematics and Business Administration at the University of Vermont from 1987-92. He is Adjunct Professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and was Visiting Professor during 1994-95 at Dartmouth's Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences. He is a member of the Dartmouth Clinical Microsystems Resource and Development Group.
From 1980-1987, he was Dean and Professor, College of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business and Public Management, University of Denver. From 1976-1980, he was Vice President, Manufacturing and Engineering, of the Carborundum Company. Previously, he was Dean and Professor, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo (1969-1976) and Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, where he also served as Acting Dean in 1967-1968.
Mr. Brandenburg has authored or co-authored over 30 publications on planning systems, business strategy, energy management, R&D management, management education and health care delivery. He has been a consultant to industry on research and development management, corporate planning and management training. He also consulted for universities, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Jordan and the International Labour Office (ILO) in the Philippines and Singapore on organization of schools of management. In the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa and the Far East, Mr. Brandenburg has taught executive development courses, and lectured on management of the future. While he was the Chairman of the Vermont Health Care Authority, he gave speeches and panel presentations on health care reform for national, regional and state professional and service organizations. He has chaired and served on college and university accreditation committees in the United States, Israel, Bulgaria and Greece for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and the Middle States Association.
Mr. Brandenburg is Immediate Past President of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Institutes (formerly Vermont Institute for Science, Math and Technology), and immediate past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Ethics Network. He is a member of the Board of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University. He did policy research for the Health Care Task Force of the Vermont Business Roundtable and is a member of the Health Care Study Committee of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce. For nine years, he was on the Board of the Leadership Champlain Program. He previously served on the Finance and Executive Committees and chaired the Academic Affairs Committee of the Champlain College Board of Trustees. He has been on the boards of directors of the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Flynn Theater, Burlington Vermont and in 1988-89 served on the Governor's Commission on Vermont's Economic Future.
Mr. Brandenburg was 1984-1985 president of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). He was president of the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration (1974-1975), trustee of Daemen College, Buffalo, New York; and regent of Canisius College, Buffalo, New York. He was on the boards of the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities and the New York State Council for the Humanities. He was a member of the R&D, Manufacturing, and President's Councils of the American Management Association.
From 1986-1989, he was director of AIRCOA Hospitality Services, Inc. In Colorado he was vice president of the Trustees, Denver Chamber Orchestra; treasurer and director, Denver Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau; and director of United Bank of Monaco, Denver; HMO Colorado, Inc.; Mentor Corporation Denver; and the Denver Growth Center.
He was a 1969 McKinsey Award winner for co-authoring an outstanding journal article on management, and in 1979 was recognized as a Cornell University graduate business school alumnus for "Outstanding Contributions to Professional Management." In 1984, he received the Hershner Award for a University of Denver College of Business Administration faculty member who "best personifies, in professional and civic life, dedication to and support for the U.S. competitive and free enterprise economic system." He was one of the 1984 "Ten Most Distinguished" selected by Denver Business magazine "in recognition of outstanding contributions to Denver and its business community."
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