Warren McFarlan, MBA, DBA
Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Baker Foundation Professor
Harvard Business School
Biography
Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962.
He was Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1991 to 1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations from 1995-2000, and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Asia Pacific from 1999-2004. Professor McFarlan is currently Guest Professor and Co-Director of the Case Development Center at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management.
Professor McFarlan’s newest book, Chinese General Management: Tsinghua-Harvard Text and Cases, coauthored with Guoqing Chen, appeared in 2009 (available in Mandarin only.) His book, Connecting the Dots, coauthored with Cathleen Benko, appeared in 2003. Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases (seventh edition), coauthored with Professors Lynda M. Applegate and Robert D. Austin, appeared in 2006. He is editor of Information Systems Research Challenge, published by the Harvard Business School Press, 1984. He served a three-year term as Senior Editor of the MIS Quarterly (1986-1988). He is a member of several corporate and non-profit boards, serving for over ten years on hospital boards.