Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) has announced on August 18 that F. Warren McFarlan, former Senior Associate Dean of Harvard Business School will serve as Co-director of the School's China Business Case Center. The tenure runs for three years.

During his tenure, Professor McFarlan will design a package of case study program; it will adopt HBS case study experience and take full consideration of current bussiness enviroment in China. Professor McFarlan will also select a company as case analysis objective and take research on the problems that occurred during the company's growing process. He may also open case study seminars in China in the future.

"Tsinghua SEM has been attaching great importance to the case-developing and case study as case study plays an important role in management education. Such move will promote SEM's case-developing and teaching capability to the international level in the future, and I believe it will exert positive influence to Chinese management education," said Qian Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM.

"I am particularly pleased," said McFarlan, "because of the extraordinary colleagues that I will be working with here over the next three years. We have already been working together for nearly ten years. Professor McFarlan also said he will bring additional Harvard case-development experience to Tsinghua’s case study effort.

The ceremony for McFarlan's affiliation with Tsinghua SEM was held on August 18 at the Shunde Building. SEM's Dean Qian Yingyi, Associate Dean Yang Bin, Associate Dean Xia Donglin, who's also Director of SEM's China Business Case Center, as well as Director of Tsinghua SEM EDP Center Xue Lei and Director of the School's Office for Communication Zheng Yuhuang attended the ceremony.

Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962. He has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers Program, Delivering Information Services Program, and several of the Social Sector programs. He teaches currently in the First Year Financial Reporting and Control course, and Second Year MBA course "Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century," as well as in several short Executive Education programs.