Word: mcarthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduate schools, a dean oversees the institution's academic and administrative life. At the B-School, however, the figure of a concerned leader deeply involved in the daily life of the school yielded to a persona better suited to the business world than academia: to both students and faculty, McArthur is not simply the school's dean--he is its chief executive officer...
During his tenure McArthur has overseen dramatic transformation at the Business School. At the time of his appointment in 1980 the B-School's stature, both at Harvard and elsewhere, had come under fire. Critics included President Derek C. Bok, who issued a report questioning the school's academic structure and its treatment of ethical issues...
...school has now gained renewed respect, bolstered by a $240 million endowment and new programs in fields such as entrepreneurial studies and ethics. McArthur's role in engineering this change and maintaining it on a day-to-day basis has been perceived differently by students and faculty...
...McArthur has been praised by B-School professors and administrators as an innovator and consensus builder, eager to promote creativity among professors without forcing his own academic agenda...
...traditional model of dean you would find something to do with students--but that's not what [McArthur's] here for," says first-year student Barry Johnson. "He's not accessible by any stretch. McArthur's not a howdy-doody, hand-shaking, walking-around-the-campus kind of dean...