Gerrity to Step Down as Dean this Summer
Thomas P. Gerrity will step down as dean of Wharton in July
after serving in that position for nine years.
He plans to pursue scholarly interests and teach at
the School as well as spend more time with his wife and
four children.
Gerrity is the 11th dean of the School since its founding
in 1881 as the nation’s first collegiate school of management.
During his tenure here, Wharton has attracted record
numbers of applicants, high levels of academic quality,
strong financial support and widespread recognition of its
leadership position around the world.
A well-known authority on strategic change management
and an early pioneer in business re-engineering, Gerrity was
founder and CEO of the Index Group, which he built into
one of the world’s leading consulting firms in information
technology and management.
“We have an extraordinarily healthy spirit and energy at
Wharton,” he notes. “I have been truly honored by the
commitment of the entire Wharton community to the success
and accomplishments of the School across all of our
strategic priorities.”
“No one has had more impact on Wharton’s rise to
national, indeed international, prominence than Tom Gerrity,”
says Penn President Judith Rodin. “Clearly he has been
the linchpin in Wharton’s reputation as the finest business
school in the world … His leadership has been magnificent,
not only in advancing curricular innovation and stimulating
exciting new academic collaborations, but in his ability
to attract unprecedented support for Wharton and its teaching
and research mission.”
A search committee has been appointed to look for a
new dean.
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