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Sahlman may soon undertake another enterprise: that of leading the Business School (HBS). The 45-year-old senior associate dean and director of publishing activities is one of the favorites to succeed retiring Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur, faculty members said last week...
...would probably tend to encourage individual initiatives rather than try to run [the school] as a bureaucracy," Professor of Business Administration Francis J. Aguilar said. "Not to imply that McArthur did--he also had various initiatives, but probably more of a central control. We might find less of that under Sahlman...
...McArthur recently appointed Clark second-yearMBA program chair. Clark's duties as chair willinclude overseeing changes to the electivecurriculum and directing the field studies andinternship programs...
...Since McArthur became dean in 1980, annualgifts to the Business School have gone up from $8million to $30 million, and the market value ofinvestments has skyrocketed from $106 million to$600 million, according to a Business School factsheet...
Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur describes Harvard's present system as creating "haywire accommodations with FAS in order to get Ph.D. programs," unnecessarily complicating the bureaucracy involved. McArthur, Dean of the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 and Dean of the Dental School R. Bruce Donoff are three of the biggest proponents of ending FAS's monopoly on the Ph.D. They all note that increasing demand for the Ph.D., combined with Harvard's inefficient and incoherent approach to awarding it, makes Harvard's professional programs less appealing to students...