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When the stock market tumbled in October 2008, the Business School was celebrating its 100th year with a weekend of extravagant festivities shortly before the school too would feel the effects of the financial crisis.
But Light took quick action to minimize the impact of economic turbulence, showing foresight in taking precautions against an increasingly deeper and more widespread recession, according to several students and faculty.
It was essentially the same speech he had given since he became dean—the only noticeable difference was the change in class year.
But while many students, professors, and alumni praise Light for his leadership during the recent economic downturn, several long-time faculty members note that Light’s agenda closely followed that of his predecessor. Some of the school’s most prominent initiatives, they say, grew out of...
“He didn’t stifle innovation,” Business School Professor Jay W. Lorsch says. “He came in and was really building on what Clark had done.”