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One of Harvard Business School’s most prominent graduates, Robert McNamara (MBA 1939), passed away in July.
McNamara once told the Bulletin that he had intended to lead a quiet academic life as an HBS professor (see McNamara profile here). Instead, after graduating from HBS, he joined the Ford Motor Company as a“whiz kid,” eventually becoming its president briefly before the Kennedy administration tapped him to be Secretary of Defense. He became known as the architect of the Vietnam War, a conflict that marked him forever.
“After leaving the Pentagon on the verge of a nervous breakdown,” the New York Times wrote (July 6, 2009), “McNamara became president of the World Bank and devoted evangelical energies to the belief that improving life in rural communities in developing countries was a more promising path to peace than the buildup of arms and armies.”
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