The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School,1980-1995. (book review)

Business History, April, 2000 by WILSON, JOHN F.

THOMAS K. McCRAW and JEFFREY L. CRUIKSHANK (eds.), The Intellectual Venture Capitalist: John H. McArthur and the Work of the Harvard Business School,1980-1995 (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999. Pp.xi 353; illus. H/back ISBN 0 87584 900 8, $35).

In spite of what to many might appear to be an impressive title, it was with some foreboding that I accepted the brief to review this book, given its aim of praising the achievements of a past dean of Harvard Business School. Thumbing through chapter one also seemed to reinforce preconceived views that this would be little more than a eulogy from former colleagues who wanted to praise the person who had sponsored their academic ventures. When one comes across photographs captioned 'John McArthur at age...

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