Where is jim mckenney

He became a full professor with tenure in and was named the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration in He retired from the active faculty in He had invaluable foresight and was always decades ahead of practice. McKenney introduced the first computer-based simulation exercise, the Business Game, to the required first-year MBA curriculum in the s and later created the first on-line computing facility at HBS.

By playing the game, students learned how to use IT for business planning and management long before personal computers were invented. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of information systems, McKenney received an Association for Information Systems Fellow Award in Born and raised in Chicago, he graduated from Purdue University in with a B. McKenney was easily recognizable on the HBS campus. He always wore a bow tie, and the cut of his face and beard reminded passersby of Abraham Lincoln.

He had a second home in Wisdom, Mont. I am awfully sorry to hear this news. What a rough time for him. I always enjoyed talking to him. She was such a nice person. Jim D. I am bereft. An amazing member and PVC colleague. Nothing but the best and I loved his voice.

So sad. Betty Anne Spar. Subject: Jim McKenney died yesterdyay. We just got a call from Maxine and Bob Kent. Jim went into the hospital this late fall with diabetic complications, and after the hospital went to rehab.

There will be a service, MUCH later. Off the top of my head, there is a lot of dead wood needing removal, and off the top of my head, there are his cold frames and his bog, which should have easily identifiable, and hopefully labeled, things. I have no idea of the time frame of all of this, certainly not now. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.