Formerly a business consultant, Harreld succeeded Sally Mason as president on November 2,2015, after serving in senior corporate roles at Kraft Foods, Boston Market, and IBM.
13 Facts About Bruce Harreld
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Bruce Harreld was held appointments as adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management and senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.
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Bruce Harreld's parents had emigrated from Romania and managed a grocery store that suffered during the Great Depression.
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Bruce Harreld graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a degree in industrial engineering, followed by a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in 1975.
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Bruce Harreld then worked as senior vice president and division president at Kraft Foods until 1993, overseeing the frozen food unit.
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From 1993 to 1994, Bruce Harreld was an adjunct professor at Northwestern University.
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Bruce Harreld was president and board member at Boston Market from 1993 to 1995, a time of massive expansion for the company.
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Bruce Harreld later served as senior vice president at IBM from 1995 to 2008, overseeing strategic restructuring of the organization.
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From 2008 to 2014, Bruce Harreld was an adjunct professor at Harvard Business School in both the entrepreneurial and strategy units.
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Bruce Harreld's contract was renewed until 2023 in a process described as "opaque", but he retired in 2020.
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Bruce Harreld's appointment to the presidency of the University of Iowa was a controversial one, with his faculty objecting to the fact that he does not possess a doctorate, had limited publications to his name, and had minimal experience working in higher education.
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Bruce Harreld's stance on public health and classroom safety during the COVID-19 pandemic was a source of controversy.
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Critics claimed that Bruce Harreld's actions increased the risk of disease transmission among the university community.