Seven months ago, Geoffrey Garrett appeared firmly in control of one of the nation’s most prominent business schools.
“In November, the University of Southern California announced that Garrett would serve a second five-year term as dean of the Marshall School of Business, extending the tenure of a leader who had spent more than six years reshaping the school’s global profile while leveraging his stature as a former dean of both the Wharton School and Australia’s University of New South Wales Business School.
On Wednesday (June 10), that confidence came to an abrupt end.
USC announced that Garrett will step down as dean in August and assume a newly created role as Special Advisor to the President for Global Strategy and Engagement. The move comes just weeks before Marshall faculty were scheduled to hold a July 1 vote of no confidence in his leadership.”