Davis-Blake becomes dean of the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in July, once she wraps up her work as senior associate dean for academic affairs at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. (The school is named for one Billy Joe McCombs, whom you may know better as Red.) She succeeds interim co-deans Jim Campbell and Michael Houston. What drew her here? “There are a lot of players in the market for business education right now—in fact, there’s some overcapacity in the industry, if you will,” she says. “But there are really only a few players that I think have what it takes to be truly excellent, and Carlson is one of them.” Davis-Blake will oversee the Carlson School’s expansion, particularly at the undergraduate level. One of her challenges: attracting additional faculty in a seller’s market for business professors.