BERNARD T. FERRARI is dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He served as the second dean of the Carey Business School from July 2012 until his retirement in July 2019.
Under his leadership, Carey’s full-time enrollment grew by more than 400%, the number of full-time faculty members increased from 39 to more than 100, and academic programming significantly expanded for both in-person and online students. In 2017, Carey earned accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the world’s leading authority on the quality assurance of business school programs. AACSB accreditation is considered a “hallmark of excellence” in business education.
Before joining the Carey Business School, Ferrari was a director at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he spent nearly two decades leading McKinsey’s health care practice and the firm’s North American corporate strategy practice. After retiring from McKinsey in 2008, he founded and became chairman of the Ferrari Consultancy, serving clients in the financial services, transportation, energy, medical products, aviation, and heavy-equipment manufacturing sectors.
Ferrari was a cum laude graduate of the University of Rochester, where he also earned his MD. He began his professional career as a surgeon and later was chief operating officer and assistant medical director of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. Subsequently, he earned a JD magna cum laude from the Loyola University School of Law and an Executive MBA from the Tulane University School of Business.
Ferrari is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester. In 2012, the university awarded him the Dean’s Medal in recognition of his achievements and service. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former trustee of the Juilliard School. He is married to Linda Ferrari, a former commercial banker and an active docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
His papers have been published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, McKinsey Quarterly, and The New England Journal of Medicine. His book Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All was published in March 2012 and was named by WealthManagement.com as one of the 10 best business books of the year.
Held by Tinglong Dai
TINGLONG DAI is the Bernard T. Ferrari Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, specializing in Operations Management and Business Analytics. He holds a joint faculty appointment at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Council and serves on the leadership team of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. He also co-leads the University’s Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship Cluster on Global Advances in Medical Artificial Intelligence. As a co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Workgroup on AI and Healthcare, his current work focuses on integrating AI into clinical workflows and improving productivity, access, and equity in healthcare delivery. He joined Carey in 2013 after receiving a PhD in Operations Management/Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
As a renowned expert in healthcare analytics and global supply chains, Professor Dai has been quoted hundreds of times in the media, including Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has appeared on national and international TV such as BBC News, CNBC, PBS NewsHour, Sky News, and ZDF. In 2021, he was named as one of the World’s Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by Poets & Quants.
Professor Dai’s research interests span across healthcare, human-AI interaction, global supply chains, and marketing-operations interfaces. His work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, Marketing Science, Operations Research, Journal of Marketing Research, NEJM AI, and npj Digital Medicine, and has been recognized by Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, POMS Best Healthcare Paper Award, and Wickham Skinner Early Career Award (Runner-Up). He is an Associate Editor of Management Science, M&SOM, npj Digital Medicine, Service Science, Health Care Management Science, and Naval Research Logistics, a member of the Editorial Board of Marketing Science, and a Senior Editor of INFORMS Journal on Data Science and Production and Operations Management. In 2023, he was elected as Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and Outreach for INFORMS, the world’s largest professional association for decision and data sciences. He co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations and co-edits the Handbook of Healthcare Analytics: Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2018.