Rankings May Push Business Deans Out

Business deans may have good reason to lose sleep over those pesky Business Week rankings. Their jobs may depend on how their schools perform.

Three economists at Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business have concluded in a paper that a drop in a business school's ranking increases the likelihood that the dean will be booted out or leave voluntarily.

The correlation was less clear with U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings. Dean turnover didn't increase

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