Professor John W. Hennessey Jr, age 92, of Shelburne, VT, and formerly of Hanover, NH, died of natural causes on January 11, 2018 at the Wake Robin Continuing Care Retirement Community. Hennessey was a much beloved and respected professor and administrator. He had a great love of teaching and was a mentor and advisor to his students, colleagues and friends, many of whom have said, “He changed my life.” John Hennessey was a scholar, a feminist, a democrat, and an ethicist, with an exceptional academic career
John W. Hennessey Jr. was Jones Professor of Management and Third Century Professor Emeritus at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, where he was Associate Dean and then Dean from 1962 to 1976 . He co-founded Dartmouth’s Ethics Institute in 1981 and taught business ethics to undergraduates as well as MBA students until his 1987 retirement. Then, he served for three years as the first Provost of the University of Vermont and (in 1990) its Interim President. He has served on more than thirty corpor
Early years: education, military service, and college.