Word: mcarthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both faculty and students agree in their characterization of McArthur as the model corporate figure whose role--the CEO--is delineated daily within the school's case studies. For better or for worse, he does what is necessary to run the great MBA factory across the river--promoting growth through his executives and middle managers, but rarely fraternizing with the workers...
...McArthur is just not part of life here," says one second-year student. "I guess he's accessible if you put in enough effort but he doesn't affect life here...
...McArthur declined to be interviewed for this article, and he has repeatedly refused to speak to The Crimson...
Breakfasts with each of the nine second-year class sections are arranged by the dean each year, say second-year students; but even then McArthur's diffidence and reluctance to speak in public sometimes counteracts his cursory efforts to establish direct communication with students...
Where students find McArthur distant, however, B-School faculty laud him as responsive to faculty concerns and as a champion of innovation within the graduate school's often static curriculum...