Howard Wesley Johnson was a U.S. educator. He served as dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

 between 1959 and 1966, president of MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...

 between 1966 and 1971, and chairman of the MIT Corporation (the university's board of trustees) from 1971 to 1983.

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

World War II

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, and returned to earn a masters degree in economics at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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, where he taught from 1948 to 1955. He joined the MIT faculty as an associate professor of management in 1955.

Selected works

• Holding the Center: Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education, MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0262600447