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Light was named interim dean after Clark suddenly announced in June 2005 that he would be stepping down to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University-Idaho...
Light, who will be replaced by Business School professor Nitin Nohria after serving as dean since 2006, has been lauded for his deep understanding of the institution with over 35 years of experience on the Business School faculty, as well as for his amiable demeanor and sense of humor that have endeared him to many members of the community...
...note that Light’s agenda closely followed that of his predecessor. Some of the school’s most prominent initiatives, they say, grew out of preliminary work undertaken during the previous administration under Kim B. Clark ’74, whom he replaced first as interim dean in 2005 before assuming the permanent position...
Light’s tenure was the shortest ever for a Business School dean, and in a Dec. 2009 email to the community announcing his departure, he acknowledged the brevity of his deanship, which may have made it difficult to carve out a unique agenda...
...believe it’s time to let a new Dean guide the future path of this very special institution,” he added...