Dean, Graziadio, Business School, Pepperdine University
Crown, who served as professor of management and dean of the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College before taking over the business school at Pepperdine, was named dean in 2022. She also served as associate dean and endowed professor at San José State University. Her academic career began at the University of Alabama, where she was the Miles-Rose Professor of Leadership and Ph.D. coordinator for management. Crown appears regularly in media outlets, the Wall Street Journal, CNN and the New York Times, and publishes in academic journals. She has a B.S. from North Central College, an M.S. from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Ph.D. from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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