Word: mcarthur
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...went in to see the dean of this place and I said, 'I've got a big problem, because my wife isn't interested in the Queen Charlotte Islands or the Yukon, or anywhere where there'd be logging," McArthur says. "[The dean] used to call himself 'we,' and he said, 'We think you should go to Harvard Business School,' which I didn't know about...
...McArthur applied and was admitted to the Stanford, Wharton, MIT and Harvard business schools. He says he ruled out Stanford because he had grown up on the West Coast and felt it was time to explore a new place, and he ruled out Wharton because no one in British Columbia had heard...
From that day in 1957 on, McArthur remained at Harvard, joining the faculty shortly after his graduation in 1959, and rising through the ranks until he was awarded an endowed chair...
...years later, on Halloween day of 1979, then Harvard President Derek C. Bok asked McArthur whether he was interested in becoming dean...
Today, halfway through his 13th year as dean, McArthur is at the height of his professional career, far removed from the Vancouver sawmill where he got his start...