When he arrives here in Ann Arbor, Mich. this weekend, Dolan will begin an aggressive attempt to get to know the school and its faculty before the academic year begins. By mid-September, he said he plans to meet with the business school’s 126 full-time faculty individually.
“The first thing I’m doing is to really deepen my understanding of the faculty at the school—what they’re aspiring to, and what they as a group think we should be doing,” Dolan said.
Dolan joined the HBS faculty in 1980 after four years of teaching at the University of Chicago’s business school. He is an expert on product policy and pricing, and has written or co-written eight books and also served on the review boards of the Journal of Marketing and Marketing Science.
Last fall, HBS Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 named Dolan the senior associate dean and director of the division of research at HBS, a position which would have been effective this summer.
—Staff writer Catherine E. Shoichet can be reached at shoichet@fas.harvard.edu.