Judy Olian was named dean of Anderson in 2005 after five years at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. The Australian-born Olian is one of the few women running a top business school. Anderson touts that its mindset is global and forward-focused.

It pioneered the nation's first field-study program nearly 50 years ago - the Applied Management Research Program.

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