JON STRAUSS CONSULTING

Over the next nine years, he was an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, the Technical University of Norway, and the Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to his teaching and research, he managed the burgeoning computer centers on these campuses... Jon Strauss has over fifty years experience in higher education, as a professor, dean, vice... In 1974, he arrived at the University of Pennsylvania. While recruited initially as Director of Computing Activities and professor of decision sciences, he was soon offered the position of Executive Director of the University Budget and then Vice President of Budget and Finance. The University was, at the time, the least financially stable of the Ivy's. Working with John Hobstetter and Robert Zemsky, Strauss refined a decentralized financial management system conceived by President Martin Meyerson to bring market place incentives to higher education. This system (known as Responsibility Center Management or RCM) helped..