Thursday, January 22, 2009
What’s on Your Nightstand, Tom Gilligan?
For Thomas Gilligan, recently appointed dean of the McCombs School of Business, reading is like breathing.
“I’m not sure I can think of myself as existing apart from reading—it’s an integral part of life,” Gilligan says. “Reading was a big salvation for me when I went into military service right out of high school. It’s the way I educated myself before I ever went to college.”
Prior to joining academia, Gilligan served as a Russian linguist in the United States Air Force…
