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Dean Harker to Leave
Wharton for University
of Delaware Presidency
Wharton Dean Patrick T. Harker has announced his
acceptance of the Presidency of the University of
Delaware, effective July 1, 2007. Harker, who has served
as Wharton's Dean since February 2000, will remain
Dean through June 30, 2007.
University of Pennsylvania President amy Gutmann
has appointed a search committee to nominate a new
dean, and a final appointment will be made by the
University Trustees upon recommendation by President
Gutmann. if the search committee has not completed its
search by June 30, an interim dean will be named.
Harker's accomplishments include strengthening the
School's focus on innovation, integrity, and engagement
with the business community. His commitment to academic excellence and faculty scholarship attracted
eminent scholars to the School's faculty—the largest at
any business school. His vision of Wharton's international mission led him to redouble the
School's efforts
to connect with alumni around the world and to share
Wharton's ideas with business leaders from Hong kong
to mumbai to Costa Rica.
As another sign of Wharton's expanding place in the
world, Harker led the creation of Wharton West, the
school's San Francisco-based campus, and forged an alliance with INSEAD,
the leading non-U.S. based business school. He also oversaw two innovative and very
successful initiatives—expanding knowledge@Wharton
to 800,000 subscribers in 189 countries, and the launch
of Wharton School Publishing.
"While the School has accomplished a great deal in
the past several years, including exciting new academic programs and global outreach,
I am most proud of
the continued growth of the faculty, not only in terms of
numbers, but in terms of their intellectual strength and
diversity," Harker said.
Harker has been Dean for seven eventful years, but
his Penn roots run deeper. He earned both bachelor's
and master's degrees in engineering from Penn in 1981,
then received a master's degree in economics and a
PhD in civil engineering, also from Penn, in 1983. He
has been a member of the Wharton faculty since 1984,
and in 2000, was appointed as dean. He is a leading
scholar in the areas of service and technology management and operations research.
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