University of South Carolina has named a new dean for the Darla Moore School of Business.
Peter Brews, a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and immediate past associate dean of its OneMBA program, will become dean of the Moore School Jan. 16.
Brews succeeds interim dean John McDermott who has served in the position since June when Hildy Teegen concluded her tenure as dean after serving six years.
Michael Amiridis, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, said in a statement that Brews was selected for his exceptional leadership in business and executive education and scholarly achievements in international business.
Brews is a native of South Africa, where he moved into academia after a career in banking and finance. He started as lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was visiting professor at various U.S. universities. He then served as an assistant professor at Babson College for a year before teaching at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, then UNC.
At UNC Kenan-Flagler, Brews teaches global context to full-time and executive MBA students and global strategy to students in the OneMBA, a program he suggested to the school soon after joining in 2000, according to USC.
He has written extensively about strategic management for Internet-generation companies, and over the past decade has focused on how nations, firms and individuals cope with the fast-changing, complex, highly competitive global environment of the early 21st century.
