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B-School Briefs

London Business School has picked Robin Buchanan, currently the Senior Partner in Britain of Bain & Co., as its new dean. He succeeds Laura Tyson, who will be teaching at the University of California-Berkeley…The Graduate Management Admissions Council has gone on the road in an effort to make the GMAT test more accessible to potential B-school applicants. A mobile test center bus is heading out on a 27-state, seven-month tour of colleges and universities. Click here to see the bus schedule…The Forte Foundation, a group promoting women's leadership in business, reported a nearly 2% gain in the number of women attending B-school. Two-thirds of the group's 27 members are reporting gains over last year, and more than half of Forte's member schools have women enrolled at over-30% levels. Yale had the highest percentage of women—38%—followed by Wharton and Georgetown, with 36%…Richard Schmalensee, Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management since 1998, is leaving his post at the end of the school year. Schmalensee will return to teaching and research.

Miller, Di Meglio, and Ho are reporters with BusinessWeek.com in New York.