And the new Dean is.......

Robin Buchanan, Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Co Inc.  Following much speculation, including an accurate prediction in this morning's Times! Mr Buchanan was announced by the School as the successor to Dean Tyson.

As quoted on the School's website:-

London Business School is delighted to announce that Robin Buchanan is to be its new Dean. Buchanan is currently the Senior Partner in the UK of Bain & Company Inc., the global business consultancy. He will bring to the School over 30 years' experience of providing advice on strategy, organisation, operations and acquisitions to international business clients. Buchanan was elected Managing Partner of Bain in the UK in 1990, and became Senior Partner in 1996.

Buchanan will be the seventh Dean in the School's 42-year history.  He succeeds Laura Tyson who will be returning to the University of California at Berkeley as Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the Haas School of Business.

Read the official press release (PDF)