Garth Saloner is a South African-born American economist. He is the John H. Scully Professor of Leadership, Management and International Business at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was the dean from 2009 to 2015.
Early life
Garth Saloner was born in South Africa circa 1955. He grew up in a Jewish family under apartheid. Saloner graduated from the University of Witwatersrand, where he earned a bachelor of commerce in 1975 and a master in business administration in 1977. He emigrated to the United States to avoid doing his military service in the South African Defence Force. Instead, he attended Stanford University, where he earned a master of arts degree in Economics in 1981, and a master of science in Statistics and PhD in Economics in 1982. ==Career==
Career
Saloner was an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1982 to 1987, and a tenured associate professor from 1987 to 1990. During his tenure, he led a $500 million fundraising campaign. He was succeeded by Jonathan Levin. Saloner has published research on business networks at start-up technology companies. He is the co-author of two books. His research has been published in academic journals like The RAND Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review. ==Personal life==
Personal life
Saloner had a wife, Marlene, who died of cancer in 2012. Some time after, he began a romantic relationship with Deborah H. Gruenfeld, a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was dean. Gruenfeld was separated from another professor at the school, James Phills. ==Works==