Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), October 11th, 2006
Byline: Neal St. Anthony; Staff Writer
The first time the search firm called Alison Davis-Blake about applying to be the dean of the University of Minnesota business school, she took a pass.
Davis-Blake, a Minnesota native, thought it might be "weird" to return to the school where her father, Gordon Davis, was still teaching management information systems after 40 years and where as a teenager she labored part time in a basement computer lab at old Blegen Hall. Besides, after 15 years, she was the No. 2 boss at the University of Texas business school, a bigger operation. And her family was...
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