Howard Wesley Johnson


Howard Wesley Johnson was an American educator. He served as dean of the MIT [Sloan School of Management] between 1959 and 1966, president of MIT between 1966 and 1971, and chairman of the MIT Corporation from 1971 to 1983. He was a member of both the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences] and the American Philosophical Society.

Education and early career

Johnson graduated in 1943 with a bachelor's degree in business from Central College in Chicago. He served in the Army in Europe during World War II, and returned to earn a master's degree in economics at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1948 to 1955. He joined the MIT faculty as an associate professor of management in 1955.

Selected works