The University of Michigan Ross School of Business announced yesterday that Alison Davis-Blake will replace Robert J. Dolan as its Dean starting in mid-August. Davis-Blake was appointed by the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota as its first female dean in 2006. At the time, Davis-Blake was the highest-ranking female dean at any U.S. business school. Prior to that, she worked in various capacities at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. According to Jerry Davis, professor of management and organizations and head of the Ross School’s Dean Search Advisory Committee, Davis-Blake impressed the committee with her “grasp of the broad competitive landscape of business education, its future leads, and the factors that distinguish Ross from the other top schools.”
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