Donor & Recipient Stories
Jagdish Sheth
Among the many ways your gifts help enhance the quality of the education at Goizueta is by helping to strengthen the quality of the faculty at the school. When your gift funds a professorship or faculty chair, you help us attract and retain faculty members like Jagdish Sheth, who elevate the distinction of the school and help us attract the highest-quality students to our programs.
One of the World's Leading Professors of Marketing
Jagdish Sheth has found inspiration in many forms - from his family to mentors to a fascination with psychology - all of which have led to his recognition as one of the most innovative marketing minds in the world. Sheth, the Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, joined Emory in 1991 and has written more than 200 books and research papers on marketing. His collaboration with mentor John A. Howard on "The Theory of Buyer Behavior" birthed the discipline of consumer research.
Playing an Instrumental Role in International Outreach
Sheth has earned many awards, but he finds his greatest reward in being a role model and giving back to his community. He and his wife, Madhuri, founded the Madhuri and Jagdish Sheth Foundation in 1991 to support marketing education, and he established the Sheth Distinguished Alumni Award at Emory to recognize international alumni for outstanding service. He also funds the annual Sheth Lecture on Indian Studies, which brings a scholar on South Asia to Goizueta, and also helps fund several Sheth Ph.D. fellows at Goizueta each year.
The joy he receives in giving back to students is well worth the effort he puts in, Sheth says. "I enjoy motivating young people," he adds. "If you take a grain of wheat and make a loaf of bread, the value added is 20 times. If you take a rough diamond, polish it, and make it into a finished diamond, the value added is 40 to 60 times. If you take a human being and nurture and invest in that human being, the value added is infinite."
How Your Gift Helps Attract Faculty like Jagdish Sheth
Because the competition for talented faculty is so intense among the nation's leading graduate business schools, it is critical for Goizueta to be able to attract the best and brightest rising scholars to our campus. When you help establish a professorship or a faculty chair at Goizueta, your gift helps us continue to attract world-renowned faculty who are respected in their disciplines and committed to helping students learn.
Goizueta communicates a culture of ethics and values so well because of its small classes and the caliber of its faculty. Small classes, outstanding programs, and a high faculty-to-student ratio mean students get personal attention from some of the world's leading business experts. By making it possible to hire and retain the highest-caliber faculty, your gift helps Goizueta continue cultivate the unique academic environment for which we are known, and the culture of personal attention that our students value so highly.
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