Reflections of an inside outsider

✍ Scribed by John Boehrer

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 36 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0276-8739
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199923)18:4<685::aid-pam8>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

On March 18, several circles of friends and colleagues lost a resource, a valuable peer, and a friend: Robert Leone, coeditor of this section, died in the middle of what we all thought was recovery from cancer. His formal accomplishments are noteworthy; Bob kept a variety of balls in the air without ever being seen to juggle. Trained as an economist at Harvard and Yale, he taught at Yale, Harvard, and most recently at the Boston University School of Management, where he served as Associate Dean and led the development of its undergraduate program. He wrote more than 50 articles and books, including Who Profits, an important and original examination of business response to environmental constraints and opportunities. As a partner with Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, he had a busy consulting program, especially in the area of utility deregulation.

Married to a remarkable woman, he raised two devoted daughters, and he served the federal government and his local community of Lexington, Massachusetts, as a public official for many years.

This recitation, however, really gives one who did not know Bob no idea. Teaching, for example, sounds like what any of us with chalk on our sleeves do. For Bob it was an enormous enterprise to which he directed his entire intellect as though it were cognitively demanding, and his emotional attention as though students were grownups with fears and hopes. Indeed, he improved Submissions to Curriculum and Case Notes should be sent to the new C&CN Editor,