Dezsö J. Horváth

Dezsö Joseph Horváth, is a Canadian businessman and educator. He was the dean of York University's Schulich School of Business from 1988 until 2020, and is a director of Inscape Corporation and UBS Bank (Canada).

Engineering career From 1963 to 1968, Horváth worked as an R&D engineer at ASEA, now known as ABB Group. Within his last year, he earned $550,465.44, which also made him the highest paid employee at York University.

Honours

In 1995, Horváth received the B’nai Brith Canada Award of Merit.

In 2012, Dr. Horváth received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his achievements and significant contributions to Canada.

In 2014, he was selected by the Toronto Star as one of the 180 most important people, past and present, who helped shape the City of Toronto since its founding.

In 2016, in a collaboration between the Schulich School of Business and global management consultancy McKinsey & Company, Horvath co-authored Reimaging Capitalism along with McKinsey’s global managing partner, Dominic Barton and Schulich Professor, Matthias Kipping. The book provides a range of views on building a re-imagined paradigm for responsible capitalism where long-term value creation is not supplanted by the pressures of short-term profit-taking. In addition to thought leaders from Schulich and McKinsey, book contributors include other renowned academics such as Lynn Stout and Robert Eccles and visionary Canadian and global business leaders, including Paul Polman, Ratan N. Tata, Galen G. Weston and Monique Leroux.

Selected publications