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As UPDATE magazine went to press in late November, UW–Madison
Chancellor John Wiley announced his selection of the new dean of the
School of Business.
Wiley named Michael M. Knetter associate dean and professor of
international economics in the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
College to the post. Knetter will join the School of Business on July 1,
2002.In announcing the appointment, Wiley said, "Michael’s character, vision
and background are the right fit for the School of Business at this time."
Knetter, a Wisconsin native, grew up in Rhinelander and completed his
undergraduate studies in economics and mathematics at UW–Eau Claire. He
completed his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University before joining
Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. While at Dartmouth, Knetter also served as a senior staff economist for
the President’s Council of Economic Advisors for former presidents George
H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. He is a research associate for the National
Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to joining the Tuck School of Business in 1997, Knetter was vice
chair of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth. He first joined
Dartmouth as an assistant professor in the economics department in 1988.
Knetter will fill the position formerly held by
Andrew J. Policano who
stepped down as dean of the School of Business on Sept. 1, 2001, after 10
years. Policano is on a year’s sabbatical and returns to the
finance
faculty of the School of Business next fall.
The finalists were recommended to Wiley by a
19-member
search-and-screen committee after a nationwide search. The other finalists
for the post were: Lawrence Benveniste, interim dean of the Carlson School
of Management at the University of Minnesota; R.D. Nair, interim dean of
the UW–Madison School of Business; and Mark Zupan, dean in the Eller
College of Business and Public Administration at the University of
Arizona.
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