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Barnes was born on August 6, 1928, in St. Paul, Minn., and grew up there as the middle child of three boys. After graduating from Phillips Academy, Andover, he went on to Amherst to study English and rose to become president of his class and captain of the varsity football...
Barnes then received his MBA and doctorate in business administration in 1952 and 1958 from HBS before becoming a full professor in 1968.
Though Barnes spent over half of his life at Harvard, he never took himself too seriously, according to his widow and former student, Julie C. Wang, 62, who used to head her own medical public relations firm.
“Most women who knew him felt as though they were being heard and listened to for the first time in their lives,” Wang said of Barnes, who married three times.
Barnes served as the second president of the Iran Center for Management Studies (ICMS)—a Harvard-affiliated business school in Tehran, where HBS professors and Iranian Harvard graduates taught both Iranian and foreign businessmen in an 11-month program—from 1975 to 1977. He also...