{"id":30672,"date":"2015-09-26T18:54:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T01:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=30672"},"modified":"2023-11-01T03:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:40:18","slug":"scandal-swirls-around-stanford-dean-saloner-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/scandal-swirls-around-stanford-dean-saloner-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal Swirls Around Stanford: Dean Saloner Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here\u2019s the short story: Stanford Graduate School of Business<\/a> Dean Garth Saloner, who has been serving as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2009, will be leaving his post next summer. He was having an affair with GSB professor Deborah Gruenfeld (of Leanin.org fame) who was married to (and is now getting a divorce from) former GSB professor Jim Phills, who is currently suing the business school for wrongful termination. Phills now teaches at Apple University. <\/span><\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t just a story about an acrimonious divorce, an illicit affair, or even an angry, scorned husband wanting to get even. There are educational and financial elements to the tale as well. According to a <\/span>lengthy<\/span> Poets & Quants <\/span><\/i>article<\/span><\/a>, there are \u201callegations\u00a0of\u00a0professional and financial retribution against\u2026Jim Phills, contempt for school rules and policies, and claims\u00a0that the Graduate School of Business is a hostile workplace driven by personal agendas, favoritism, and fear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The GSB\u2019s reputation has been shaken.\u00a0<\/span>In fact, GSB\u2019s whole culture is now being scrutinized due to other troubling events that point to arrogance, poor social ethics, hedonism, and contempt for laws and policies. (See details on pages 2-3 of the <\/span>P&Q <\/span><\/i>article.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Other claims now being made against the GSB include the accusation that the school is sexist and ageist: Of the 40 senior staff members who have left Stanford GSB in the last five years, most have been women over the age of 40, with the remainder almost all men over the age of 40, highlighting a \u201chostile work environment\u201d for people in this demographic. (This is an assertion that was presented in a letter signed by 46 current and former staff members, the \u201cGroup of 46\u201d \u2013 read more about this letter and the complaints on page 5 of the <\/span>P&Q<\/span><\/i> article.) <\/span><\/p>\n

For more details, please see the <\/span>P&Q <\/span><\/i>article.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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