CAZENOVIA — This spring, the Carroll School of Management at Boston College named Jim Joseph, a Cazenovia resident and dean of the Madden School of Business at Le Moyne College, as its inaugural Ignatian Global Carroll School Fellow.
The one-year fellowship was established to further connect the Carroll School to the global network of Jesuit business teachers/scholars and institutions.
Joseph, who graduated from Le Moyne in 1983, is currently pursuing a doctorate in executive leadership from his alma mater.
His dissertation will explore collaboration within the Jesuit business school worldwide network.
Joseph said he believes his work will also help enhance collaboration among the entire Jesuit higher education community.
“As a successful businessman and leader, the co-founder of both the Global Jesuit Case Series and the IgnitEd platform, and co-chair of the Inspirational Paradigm Selection Committee, Jim Joseph is a natural choice as our inaugural Ignatian Global Carroll School Fellow,” said Andy Boynton, the Carroll School’s John and Linda Powers Family Dean, in a May 3 press release.
Joseph served as president and CEO of Oneida Ltd. — one of the world’s largest designers, marketers and distributors of housewares products — from 2006 to 2012, leading the company’s turnaround and subsequent sale to Monomoy Capital Partners in 2011.
“At the time I remember asking myself, ‘What if I dedicate the remainder of my professional life to my alma mater [Le Moyne] as well as the global Jesuit community by advancing the belief that business can and must have a positive impact on society?’” Joseph said in the press release.
After leaving Oneida Ltd., Joseph went on to serve as the Madden School executive-in-residence from 2012 to 2014. He was appointed dean of the Madden School in 2014 and special assistant to the president in 2017.
Joseph was recently elected to his third three-year term on the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS) Board of Directors.
As an Ignatian Global Carroll School Fellow, his role is to increase the Boston College (BC) business faculty’s collaboration within the global Jesuit network.
“The bottom line [is that] when I’m at the IAJBS boardroom table, I am wearing Le Moyne and Boston College hats,” Joseph said.
The fellowship officially began on May 3.
“Nine years into dedicating the rest of my life to both my alma mater and the global Jesuit network, [it feels great that my work] has been recognized and celebrated by the #1 out of 120-plus Jesuit business schools in the world, [and] the #10 business school in the world, period,” he said.
Centered within a private Jesuit college in Syracuse, the Madden School of Business is committed to the Jesuit ideals of intellectual rigor, cura personalis (care of the whole person), and service to and for others.
To learn more about the Madden School, visit lemoyne.edu.
For more information on the Carroll School of Management, visit bc.edu.
