Robert Duane Ireland is an American former management professor, author, and a former interim dean of Mays Business School at Texas A&M University.
[3] Ireland earned an Associate in Science degree from Amarillo Junior College (A.S.
He chose Oklahoma State because he wanted to join the faculty with Howard Kirk Downey, who Ireland described as a "very productive scholar", and his undergraduate advisor at Texas Tech, Michael A.
[9][10] Ireland and his family – including his wife Mary Ann and their two adult children – have endowed a $50,000 scholarship to Mays Business School.
[13] Ireland has been included on four separate occasions in the Economics and Business section of the list of "Highly Cited Researchers" (compiled by Clarivate).