Nancy Bord resigned this week as head of Liverpool Business School and plans to return to the United States "to pursue other interests", less than a year after her appointment as the United Kingdom's first female business school director, writes Arabella McIntyre Brown.
Peter Toyne, vice chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University (JMU), said: "I am only sorry that her time with us has been so brief."
The arrival of the high-profile American at the school last September was greeted with much excitement, but her approach and determination to push forward did not meet with universal approval.
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