Jenny Darroch is Dean of the Farmer School of Business at Miami University of Ohio, where she also holds the Mitchell P. Rales Chair in Business Leadership and is a professor of marketing.
The Farmer School of Business is ranked as the #2 public university for student internships, top 3 for international experience participation, top 10 for early career ROI, and our entrepreneurship program is ranked as the #9 program in the world.
Darroch has proven leadership experience in a range of different contexts and countries, including her current role as dean of the nationally-ranked Farmer School of Business at Miami University. Prior to this appointment, Darroch held several other leadership roles, including Dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, the only business school within the prestigious Claremont Colleges in Southern California, and Director of Entrepreneurship at the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Her scholarship is transdisciplinary and is positioned at the interface of strategy, marketing and innovation. Her work is highly cited. Darroch is most recognized for her work in knowledge management. Here, Darroch developed an instrument to measure a knowledge management orientation, its antecedents and consequences. She also worked with Professors George Day and Stan Slater to produce a special issue of the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science to honor Peter Drucker and his contribution to marketing. Darroch is also the proud author of two books: Marketing Through Turbulent Times and Why Marketing to Women Doesn’t Work (both published by Palgrave Macmillan).