He teaches at or has served on the faculties of several graduate business schools in America and abroad, including as a professor at Columbia University, Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business, The University of Chicago, the University of Cape Town, Singapore Management University and Old Dominion.
Prior to his arrival at UCSD, he served as dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Gerald L. Thompson (born November 25, 1923, Rolfe, Iowa; died November 9, 2009 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was the IBM Professor of Systems and Operations Research (Emeritus) in the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University.
He received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and completed the 1999/2000 Entrepreneurial Management Program at Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration’s Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurs.
Ruan began studying at Tsinghua University in 2005, and is now a doctoral candidate in the field of Accounting at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
Previously, from 1988 to 2009 he was the Richard M. Cyert and Morris H. DeGroot Professor of Economics and Statistics at the David A. Tepper School of Business (previously the Graduate School of Industrial Administration) at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.