START
WEEK ONE:
OBJECTIVE:
Choose a Committee
Hire a new dean in 16 weeks!
The
Search
Is On
Business schools
take 18 months, on
average, to hire a new
dean—a long time
to be left without a
permanent leader.
But by committing
to a plan and a few
key principles, the
University of Alabama
shortened the process
to just 16 weeks.
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January/February 2014
BizEd
BY RON DULEK
T
he median length of tenure for a business school
dean is just more than
three years, according to
data from AACSB International.
That figure is frightening in itself,
but even more frightening is that
after a dean steps down, it takes
18 months on average for a business school to hire a new one. That
means that business schools are
led by lame duck or interim lead-
