F. Warren McFarlan
F. Warren McFarlan is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, and Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. He is the author of 14 books and over 300 cases and teaching notes in the fields of Information Technology, China, and Social Enterprise. Education. He received his BA in 1959 from Harvard University (1965) followed by an MBA (1961) and DBA (1965) from Harvard Business School. Career. Harvard Business School. McFarlan began his career at Harvard Business School as a research assistant from 1961 to 1962. He then served  briefly as research associate before becoming an assistant professor in 1965 and then an associate professor in 1969. In 1973, shortly after appointment to full professor, along with four colleagues, he established Harvard's International Senior Management Program in Switzerland. After his return in 1975, he became chairman of the Advanced Management Program, a position he held until 1978; and chairman of all executive education programs from 1977 to 1980. He later became senior associate dean and director of research from 1991 to 1995, senior associate dean and director of external relations from 1995 to 2000, and senior associate dean  and director of Asia Pacific from 1999 to 2004. He continues to teach in the Harvard Business School Executive Programs for Non-Profit Leaders and board members. Tsinghua University. McFarlan served as guest professor and co-director at the Case Development Center at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing, China from 2009 to 2015 Awards. McFarlan received an honorary doctorate from the University of Turku, Finland in 1989.