Last fall, graduates of the Owner/President Management Program (OPM) honored one of their favorite professors by endowing a new HBS chair: the Martin Marshall OPM Professorship of Business Administration.

A member of the HBS faculty for 44 years, Martin V. ("Marty") Marshall (MBA 2/ '47, DCS '53) has influenced legions of HBS students, especially those involved in owning and running their own businesses. Former student W. James Hindman (9th OPM) led the effort to fund the chair. "Marty changes the way you do business - you begin to look at everything differently, thinking bigger and more comprehensively," said Hindman, the founder of Jiffy Lube and retired chairman of Youth Services International. "Marty has given his students not only the confidence but also the skills to take on challenges they never would have previously even considered. We established this chair to show our appreciation."

Marshall worked his way through the University of Missouri and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy before matriculating at HBS and joining the faculty in 1949. For two decades he helped shape the Marketing area through his teaching and the development of courses and cases. During his tenure at HBS he held numerous important administrative positions - including chairing the committee that admitted women to the School - and helped establish several schools of management overseas. His interest in entrepreneurship blossomed in the 1970s when he first taught in HBS's Smaller Company Management Program, an Executive Education offering that he later transformed into the OPM Program. As chairman of OPM from 1982 to 1993, Marshall won the praises of countless students, including those who established the professorship bearing his name.

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