David C. Schmittlein ’77

David C. Schmittlein ’77, of Waban, Mass.; Mar. 13, of cancer. He was the longest serving dean of MIT’s Sloan School of Management at the time of his passing. Previously, he was a professor of marketing and deputy dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for 27 years. During his tenure at MIT, he was instrumental in expanding the school’s international reach, with initiatives that included opening an MIT Sloan Latin America office in Santiago, Chile, in 2013, and partnering with the Asia School of Business in Malaysia in 2015.