The College yesterday named Paul Danos, senior associate dean at the University of Michigan's Business School, as the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration's ninth dean.
"I am delighted that Paul Danos will be the next dean of the Tuck School," College President James Freedman wrote in a press release. "We anticipate that he will provide the vigorous leadership required of one of the nation's leading business schools."
Danos will begin his appointment in July, taking over for interim Dean Colin Blaydon. Blaydon has served as dean since Ed Fox stepped down from the position last summer.
Danos said in a telephone interview from Ann Arbor, Mich., that although he has been approached for deanships by several business schools, he only interviewed at Tuck.
According to Danos, "the quality of the school and its community" attracted him to Tuck. "I think Tuck is one of the best academic environments in the world," he said.
Tuck Business Administration Professor Robert Hansen, who led the search committee for a new dean, said Acting College President James Wright and Provost Lee Bollinger selected Danos to head Tuck "because of his energy, enthusiasm and appetite for the job."
Danos said he is coming to Tuck with three "general predispositions" designed to enhance the academic environment of the school.
He said he plans to strengthen Tuck's alliances with corporations, other business schools and the College, to incorporate the latest technology into the educational program and to "foster world-class research."
Danos also expressed concern over the shortage of tenured women professors at Tuck. Currently Kaye Schoonhoven is Tuck's only tenured female professor. Three years ago, Business Week listed Tuck as being one of only two top-ranked business schools without atenured woman.
"I believe that the faculty should reflect all aspects of the population," he said. "I want to study the situation and take steps to move forward and improve it."
Danos has been on Michigan's business school's faculty since 1974. While there he chaired the accounting department from 1984 to 1991 and served as associate dean for degree programs from 1991 to 1993.
The College's search committee, which began work last November, interviewed three candidates for the position, according to Hansen.
The other two candidates for the position were Harvard University's Business School Associate Dean Leonard Schlesinger and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business Professor Robert Duncan.
