The Alcalde, July/August 2009
Hiring is down. Anxiety is up. Tom Gilligan is calm.
When economic conditions plunge, a university’s business school feels the nausea most. UT’s McCombs School has been led by a newcomer to Texas this past year. If a mid-crisis transition like that sounds like it could be rough, realize Dean Gilligan’s used to being at the control panel — and to seeing things from an expansive overhead view. Flying Cold War missions around Russia gave him a pilot’s resolve. Serving as junior economic advisor to the president gave him political realism. Studying and teaching economics gave him a tendency to look, ever optimistically, at the long run. Read more.
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