Taylor Randall | |
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.jpg) Randall in 2021 | |
| 17th President ofUniversity of Utah | |
| Assumed office September 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Michael L. Good (acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of Utah (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MBA,MA,PhD) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Product variety, supply chain structure, and firm performance: Analysis of the bicycle industry (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Christopher Ittner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Business administration |
| Institutions | University of Utah |
Taylor R. Randall is an American educator and academic administrator. Since September 2021, he has served as the 17th President of theUniversity of Utah, where he has helped raise the university to a top 10 public ranking. Prior to his appointment as president, he was dean of theDavid Eccles School of Business (2009-2021).
Randall was born inBerkeley, California, and later raised inSalt Lake City, Utah. He graduated from theUniversity of Utah with honors in accounting and then went on to earn anM.B.A., amaster's degree inmanagerial economics, and aPh.D. in operations and information management from theWharton School of Business at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. He is a third-generation business professor.[1] His father, Reed Randall, was a professor and director of the school of accounting,[2] and his grandfather, Clyde Randall, was Dean of the School of Business from 1958 to 1968.[3]
In 1998, Randall joined the David Eccles School of Business as a professor of accounting where he examined the interactions between strategy, technology, products and value chain structure with particular emphasis on how these interactions affect financial performance in organizations.[4] In his 11 years of professorship, Randall earned numerous accolades for his research and teaching. In 2001, Randall was awarded theMarvin J. Ashton Undergraduate Teaching Award and theDavid Eccles Emerging Scholar Award. In 2003, he was awarded the Brady Superior Teaching Award, the Best MBA Professor Award, and served as theBatten Visiting Fellow at theUniversity of Virginia. In 2004, Randall received the Wharton Teaching Award from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005, he was a finalist for Best Paper Award inCalifornia Management Review for his research on user design on product customization.[5]
In May 2009, Randall was appointed the dean of David Eccles School of Business. At the time of his appointment, former U of U presidentMichael K. Young described Randall as "a gifted teacher and leader and carries an unparalleled grasp of economic performance and strategies that makes him the ideal choice for leading this great school to even greater heights."[6] During his tenure as a dean, Randall focused on elevating the student experience by vastly increasing the number of experiential learning opportunities for students. The openings of theMarriner S. Eccles Institute for Economics and Quantitative Analysis, the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, the Sorenson Impact Center, and the Goff Strategic Leadership Center have provided students with unparalleled and invaluable learning opportunities, in fields ranging from entrepreneurship to social impact to policy development. Under his direction, the school improved its rankings, with eight of the school’s programs ranking within the Top 25.[7]
On August 5, 2021, Randall was selected as the 17th president of the U of U.
In addition to his work in the classroom and the President’s office, Randall has served as visiting faculty at Wharton,Washington University, andINSEAD.
Since 2016, he has been actively engaged inAACSB, serving on numerous continuous improvement review site visits, and on the AACSB Continuous Improvement Review Committee.
In 2017, Randall was elected as the president of the Southwest Dean’s Association.
In early 2020, Randall was selected by the Governor of Utah to join the Utah Health & Economic Recovery task-force[8] with the objective of stopping the spread ofCOVID-19 and re-engaging the State of Utah's social and economic activity.
Randall and his wife, Janet, have four children and currently reside in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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