Robert Joss, dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, has been a top corporate executive, but says that running a big business school is one of the most demanding jobs imaginable, requiring academic leadership, managerial skills and money-raising flair.

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An earlier version of this editorial mentioned incorrectly that the dean of the graduate business school had not signed the letter and speculated incorrectly about the dean's motives.

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Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa is a Professor of Education and the Academic Dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, positions he has held since 2006 and 2011 respectively.

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"There's been a complete upending of the model, " says Pulin Sanghvi, assistant dean and director of the Career Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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"It could be a huge tool for universities to transform the way they recruit and train graduate students, " Gene Tempel, founding dean of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, said of Munger's gift.

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Stimpson is the new dean of New York University's Graduate School of Arts and Science, located not far from FORBES magazine's offices.

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In his search for business ideas, Hughes (a computer-science graduate of Boston College, where I serve as dean of the management school) was bridging distant worlds long before he teamed up with biologists.

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Richard Lyons, dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, recently posited that to create a different kind of B-school graduate, the key first step is creating a different kind of B-school culture.

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