Garth Saloner
{{Short description|South African-born American economist}}
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Garth Saloner (born c. 1955) is a South African-born American economist. He is the John H. Scully Professor of Leadership, Management and International Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was the dean from 2009 to 2015.
Early life
Garth Saloner was born in South Africa circa 1955.{{cite web|title=Garth Saloner|url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/garth-saloner|website=Stanford Graduate School of Business|publisher=Stanford University|accessdate=March 26, 2017}}{{cite news|last1=Streitfeld|first1=David|title=At Stanford, Relationship Reveals Accusations of Discrimination|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/technology/at-stanford-an-affair-reveals-accusations-of-discrimination.html|accessdate=March 26, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=October 20, 2015}} He grew up in a Jewish family under apartheid.{{cite magazine|last1=Margolick|first1=David|title=INSIDE STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL'S SPIRALING SEX SCANDAL|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/stanford-business-school-sex-scandal|accessdate=March 26, 2017|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=December 2015}}
Saloner graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, where he earned a bachelor of commerce in 1975 and a master in business administration in 1977. He emigrated to the United States to avoid doing his military service in the South African Defence Force. Instead, he attended Stanford University, where he earned a master of arts degree in Economics in 1981, and a master of science in Statistics and PhD in Economics in 1982.
Career
Saloner was an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1982 to 1987, and a tenured associate professor from 1987 to 1990. During that time, he was also a visiting assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1986 to 1987, and a visiting associate professor the Harvard Business School from 1989 to 1990. He was a full professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1990, when joined the Stanford Graduate School of Management as a professor of Strategic Management and Economics until 1992. He was the Robert A. Magowan Professor of Economics and Strategic Management from 1992 to 2001, and the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategic Management, and Economics from 2000 to 2009. He was the Philip H. Knight Professor from 2009 to 2016, when he became the John H. Scully Professor of Leadership, Management and International Business.
Saloner was the dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business from 2009 to 2016.{{cite news|last1=Gellman|first1=Lindsay|title=Stanford Business-School Dean Garth Saloner Stepping Down|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanford-business-school-dean-garth-saloner-stepping-down-1442269981|accessdate=March 26, 2017|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=September 15, 2015}} During his tenure, he led a $500 million fundraising campaign. He also built a new dorm, and Stanford became the highest-ranked business school in the world, ahead of Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He stepped down in the wake of a lawsuit on allegations of discrimination on the basis of marital status, race and gender filed by Professor James Phills.{{cite news|last1=Jackson|first1=Abby|title='Spiraling sex scandal' engulfs Stanford's business school|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-business-school-dean-garth-saloner-resigns-during-wrongful-termination-suit-2015-10-20|access-date=March 26, 2017|work=Business Insider|date=October 21, 2015|archive-date=October 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026094903/http://uk.businessinsider.com/stanford-business-school-dean-garth-saloner-resigns-during-wrongful-termination-suit-2015-10-20|url-status=live}} He was succeeded by Jonathan Levin.
Saloner has published research on business networks at start-up technology companies. He is the co-author of two books. His research has been published in academic journals like The RAND Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.
Personal life
Saloner had a wife, Marlene, who died of cancer in 2012. Some time after, he began a romantic relationship with Deborah H. Gruenfeld, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was dean. Gruenfeld was separated from another professor at the school, James Phills.
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Podolny|first1=Joel|last2=Saloner|first2=Garth|last3=Shepard|first3=Andrea|title=Strategic Management|url=https://archive.org/details/strategicmanagem00salo|url-access=registration|date=2001|publisher=Wiley|location=New York|isbn=9780470009475}}
- {{cite book|last1=Saloner|first1=Garth|last2=Spence|first2=A. Michael|title=Creating and Capturing Value: Perspectives and Cases on Electronic Commerce|url=https://archive.org/details/creatingcapturin0000salo|url-access=registration|date=2002|publisher=Wiley|location=New York|isbn=9780471410157|oclc=46976639}}
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Category:South African emigrants to the United States
Category:University of the Witwatersrand alumni
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:MIT Sloan School of Management faculty
Category:Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty
Category:20th-century South African economists
Category:21st-century South African economists
Category:Business school deans