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...McArthur says he didn't take the offer seriously until several months later. It was then, on the day after Christmas, that his boss--a Jewish immigrant who had fled the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia--came around to the McArthur home with gifts for the holidays...
...came to the front door and my father came out with me and he wouldn't come in and he said, 'Has John talked to you about our conversation in August about going to university?'" McArthur recalls. "And my father said, 'The boy never talks to me about anything...
...McArthur enrolled at the University of British Columbia, where he majored in forestry and where, following the completion of his junior year, he married his eighth grade sweetheart...
...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...