Linda S. Doyle, associate dean of the BusinessSchool, agrees.
"[McArthur's] biggest contribution is the wayhe built the faculty and community--so many werepromoted and brought in," Doyle says. "He'sabsolutely brilliant at figuring out how to helppeople grow and develop."
McArthur displayed his faith in his faculty inan incident which involved a badge he keeps on hisdesk.
The badge, which has a bullet hole through itand the word "BOSS" written across it, had beengiven to him by another dean when McArthur startedhis job.
According to Doyle, when a senior facultymember picked up the badge and noticed that thebullet hole came from the back, McArthurresponded: "I can tell you that never happened. Inever felt that anyone had done anything like thatto me in this community."
'Enormously Caring'
The faculty's loyalty to McArthur also comesfrom the personal attention he pays to hisfaculty.
"The entire work of his office stops whensomeone has a problem," Schlesinger says. "I'venever seen anything quite like it."
"[McArthur] is just enormously caring in a waythat is quite extraordinary," Bower says. "Hereally does pay attention to individuals."
H. Kent Bowen Barclay, professor of technologyand operations management, says when his sonbecame ill recently, McArthur rushed to thehospital to help.
"My son had an aneurysm last summer and[McArthur] was at the hospital almostimmediately," Bowen says. "He got us the bestdoctors and then continued to keep [them] over thenext month."
Doyle tells of the dean's beneficence when herfather was dying of cancer four years ago.
"He was sick for a year and a half and wheneverhe went into the hospital, McArthur dropped him anote or sent him flowers...[My father's] sicknessoccurred during the transition [between formerpresident Derek C. Bok and President Neil L.Rudenstine] and McArthur got both of them to writehim a letter," Doyle recalls.
"When my father died, [McArthur] was setting upa fellowship in [my father's] name," Doyle says."My dad wasn't a big donor or anything, he was aboiler maker."
McArthur extends personal consideration tostudents as well, Business School professors say.Students praise McArthur for "how direct andaccessible he is as a person," Bower says.
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