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February 17, 2000 WHARTON New dean BY SANDY SMITH After a year-long nationwide search that, like several other recent searches, ultimately ended in Penn’s own back yard, the Wharton School has selected a new dean. President Judith Rodin announced the new dean, Patrick T. Harker, Ph.D. (CE/GCE’81), Feb. 8. Harker is the UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation and professor of operations and information management at the Wharton School. Harker succeeds Thomas P. Gerrity, who stepped down last June 30. Harker had been serving as interim dean since August. Harker was not interested in the permanent post. But, as Stephen J. Kobrin, William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management, director of the Lauder Institute and a member of the search committee that picked Harker, said, “We heard from so many people that Harker was doing a fabulous job as interim dean that we convinced him to resign from the search committee and let us put him forward as a candidate.” Harker will officially become the Wharton School’s 12th dean when the Trustees vote to confirm his appointment Feb. 18.