Deputy Provost Bruce Pipes recently appointed members to a 10-person search committee to find a new dean for the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
The creation of the committee, which has not yet met, follows the appointment of former Tuck Dean Colin Blaydon as the interim director.
Edward Fox resigned as dean of the Tuck School when he was denied a second four-year term after what administration members called a standard review.
Business Administration Professor Robert Hansen will lead the committee composed of six Tuck professors, three members of the school's Board of Overseers and one undergraduate professor.
Besides Hansen, the committee members include Tuck Overseers Jim Allwin, Phil Benton and Jack Byrne, Economics Professor Steve Venti and Business Management Professor Frederick Webster.
Tuck professors Karla Bourland, Vijay Govindarajan, Kevin Maloney and Clyde Stickney are also on the committee.
"The committee is very good, very solid," Hansen said last night. "We're going to get cranking on this right away."
The Dartmouth obtained a copy of the membership list yesterday. Hansen said the list had not been released and that all members had not be contacted.
He said the committee represents a good "cross-section of senior and junior faculty."
Hansen said he expects the committee to have its first meeting within the next two weeks. He said he would like to be able to present a short list of candidates to College President James Freedman in the winter.
Freedman, who will start his sabbatical in January, has previously said he will make important personnel decisions while he is away from the College.
College Provost Lee Bollinger and Freedman make the final decision on the appointment of a new head for the business school, which is ranked eighth in the nation.
Hansen said he would make the committee "very open with the Tuck community" and would involve many groups at the business school in the search, including the staff at the Feldberg Library and the faculty.
Hansen said the committee would also ask Fox for information on "what major issues might the school face" in the next few years.
Fox "is in the position to answer that question," Hansen said, but Fox will not participate in the actual search.
Hansen said he did not know if the committee would look for a replacement with a more academic than business-oriented background.
Some of Tuck's faculty criticized Fox for his management style and his lack of academic background.
Committee member Webster said last night it was "important to be a part of the process."
Pipes did not return phone calls last night.
