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...Robert N. Anthony, the Walker professor of management controls emeritus at Harvard Business School (HBS), died last week in Hanover, N.H. at the age of 90. He was best known for “Essentials of Accounting,” a ground-breaking self-paced primer that was first published in 1964 and is still widely used today...
During the Vietnam War, Anthony served as comptroller of the Defense Department under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. According to Young, Anthony used accounting systems to evaluate the effectiveness of military programs. Though the department did not want him to succeed—“Nobody likes transparency applied to themselves,” said Young—Anthony’s “power personality” got the job done...
...obituary of Robert N. Anthony, an emeritus professor at the Business School, contained several statements that were incorrectly attributed to David W. Young, the Boston University emeritus professor who co-wrote “Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations” with Anthony...
Moreover, the information and quotes in the final paragraph of the article, wrongly attributed to Young, in fact came from McPherson Professor of Business Administration Regina E. Herzlinger. Young never suggested that then-Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara did not want Anthony to succeed in his effort to develop a new accounting and control system for the military...
...Fellow winner Joshua H. Billings ’07 agrees, saying of Rhodes, “He definitely has some [legacies] that are less positive, but I don’t think that effects the legitimacy of the Rhodes scholarships.” Former Rhodes scholar Robert I. Rotberg, author of a biography of Rhodes and a program director at the Kennedy School, echoed the sentiment of this year’s winners. “Whatever one might think of Cecil Rhodes himself, he did leave money for the Rhodes scholarships, and there are enough Rhodes scholars at Harvard...