New UM biz school dean sets sights on top talent.(University of Michigan Business School Dean Robert Dolan)(Brief Article)

Crain's Detroit Business, August, 2001 by Bailey, Laura

New University of Michigan Business School Dean Robert Dolan has an enviable problem: How to make one of the nation's top business schools better. Dolan, 53, had more than two decades of teaching experience at Harvard University and the University of Chicago Graduate School when he took over for B.

Joseph White on July 1. When asked whether the UM Business School would see changes, Dolan said yes but declined to discuss specifics. Attracting and retaining new professors will be one of his greatest challenges, Dolan said. ``We've had a number of people leave in the last few years'' to corporations and other universities, he said. Milton Blood, managing director of accreditation services for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of...

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