At Stanford, Relationship Reveals Accusations of Discrimination

He was the recently widowed dean of the nation’s top business school. She was a star professor who was estranged from her husband. They went for a walk. She invited him to a yoga class. A middle-age romance bloomed.  The relationship prompted a lawsuit from the estranged husband, also a professor at the school. The dean, he charged, had punished the husband to benefit his new girlfriend. The man at the center of this drama, called the case “baseless,” but resigned last month as dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.