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MAY | JUNE 2015 BizEd 71 What lessons do you share about your experience overhauling the way Schwab ran its branch o€ces? I did a number of things wrong. First, I didn't realize that soft selling was so counter to what the Schwab culture was all about. Second, I tried to change all 75 branches at once. I should have concentrated my energy on implementing pilots in three or four branches. Today, these are the principles I teach in class: Make change fit with the culture instead of flying in the face of the culture. And understand the importance of implementing a pi- lot program and building momentum. Most industry observers think higher education itself is on the verge of breakthrough change. What do you see as the key concerns? Too many institutions aren't prepar- ing students for careers in the world ahead. Why? Academic institutions are largely controlled by faculties who in many cases are teaching the wrong subjects—because those are the only subjects they know how to teach. You can't bring about change if it's led by people who resist change. What would your takeaway message be for business educators? We have to start pilot testing new concepts and ideas. We have to think about what will resonate in the marketplace. We don't have to throw everything out, but we do have to build on our foundations. We don't have to fire the faculty, but we have to complement the faculty. We have some painful work ahead. There needs to be some reallocation of resources. Some large academic departments of the past need to be reduced. The financial resources and student demand will move to schools with the courage to face the reality of what's happening in the world. NEW APPOINTMENTS Matthew J. Slaughter has been named the tenth dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in Hanover, New Hampshire. Slaughter currently is the Signal Companies' Professor of Management and associate dean for faculty at the Tuck School. From 2005 to 2007, he served on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive O‹ce of the President of the United States. He will assume his new role on July 1, succeeding dean Paul Danos. Robert L. Brown will be the new dean of the W. Fielding Rubel School of Business at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. Brown, who has been an instructor at the school since 2000, will begin his tenure as dean and professor June 1. He re- places Daniel Bauer, who plans to return to full-time teaching after 14 years as dean. Portland State University in Oregon has chosen Daniel Connolly, senior associate dean at the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business, as dean of the School of Business Administra- tion. Connolly will lead PSU's business school as it breaks ground on a US$60 million renovation and expansion this summer. He will replace Scott Dawson, who left PSU last year to become dean of Orfalea College of Business at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Scott Marshall is serving as interim dean until Connolly starts this summer. Thomas Cle has become the new dean of the Pforzheim Business School in Germany. Cle™, who began his new duties last October 1, previously served as associate dean for research and interna- tional relations. He will continue to hold his position as professor of quantitative methods in business and economics. He succeeds Ulrich Jautz, who became rector of Pforzheim University. John F. (Je) Tanner has been appointed dean of Old Dominion University's Strome College of Business in Norfolk, Virginia. Tanner is currently a professor of marketing at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and founder of the Baylor Business Collabora- tory. He takes his new post on May 25. He succeeds Vinod Agarwal, who was appointed in July 2014 to replace retiring dean Gil Yochum. AACSB Elects New Board Members of AACSB International have elected their board of directors for 2015. The board's new o•cers and representatives will begin their service on July 1. Vice chair-chair elect will be Santiago Iñiguez of IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. Secretary-treasurer will be Robert T. Sumichrast of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. Board members were elected from accredited institutions in four regions: for the U.S., Eli Jones of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville; for Europe, Jürgen M. Schneider of Universität Mannheim in Germany; for Canada, Jerry Tomberlin of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario; and for the Asia-Pacific, Lin Zhou of Shang- hai Jiao Tong University in China. Three representatives from nonaccredited institutions also were elected: Pasu Decharin of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand; Enase Felicia Okonedo of Pan-Atlantic University in Lagos, Nigeria; and Jane Mutchler of Purdue University Calumet in Indiana. Daniel Connolly Thomas Cle