Taylor Randall | |
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| President of University of Utah | |
| Assumed office September 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Michael L. Good (acting) |
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| Born | Berkeley, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of Utah (BS) University of Pennsylvania (MBA, PhD) |
Taylor R. Randall is an American educator and academic administrator. In 2009, Randall was appointed the Dean of the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business and in August of 2021, he was appointed as the 17th President of the University of Utah.
Randall was born in Berkeley, California, and later raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. Randall graduated from the University of Utah with honors in accounting and then went on to earn an M.B.A., a master's degree in Managerial Economics, and a Ph.D. in operations and information management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
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.[1] In his 11 years of professorship, Randall earned numerous accolades for his research and teaching. In 2001, Randall was awarded the Marvin J. Ashton Undergraduate Teaching Award and the David Eccles Emerging Scholar Award. In 2003, he was awarded the Brady Superior Teaching Award, the Best MBA Professor Award, and served as the Batten Visiting Fellow at the University 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 in California Management Review for his research on user design on product customization.[2]
In May of 2009, Randall was appointed the dean of the University of Utah David Eccles School of Business. At the time of his appointment, former University of Utah president Michael 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."[3] During his tenure as a dean, Randall has focused on elevating the student experience by vastly increasing the number of experiential learning opportunities for students. The openings of the Marriner 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 has improved its rankings, with eight of the school’s programs ranking within the Top 25.[4]
On August 5, 2021, Randall was selected as the 17th president of the University of Utah.
In addition to his work in the classroom and the President’s office, Randall has served as visiting faculty at Wharton, Washington University and INSEAD.
Since 2016, he has been actively engaged in AACSB, 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[5] with the objective of stopping the spread of COVID-19 and re-engaging the State of Utah's social and economic activity.
Randall and his wife, Janet, have four children: Spencer, Olivia, Clara, and Lilly. The family currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.