London Business School's Dean Goes Home
With John Quelch's resignation, the hunt is on for a replacement who can build on his American-style dynamism and innovations
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On a sweltering July morning, under a white tent pitched on a compact lawn, London Business School Dean John Quelch presided over the first of two graduation ceremonies. The school's success — a class with 596 MBAs, other Masters graduates, and PhDs from 59 countries — forced the addition of a second graduation ceremony to the day's schedule.
Quelch outlined the year's accomplishments: the establishment of a new office in Silicon Valley, a growing alumni base, and 21 additional faculty members, 15 of whom arrived in the fall of 2000. From the air of promise in his voice, few in the crowd could have realized that Quelch was entering his final year at the school whose reputation he had done so much to enhance.