Person

Uyterhoeven, Hugo E. R.

1931–2018

Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven (MBA 1957, DBA 1963), an expert on general management and a member of the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty for more than 50 years who maintained a steadfast commitment to course development and teaching while also making a lasting mark as a talented administrator, died on Monday evening, Jan. 29, at a hospital in Melbourne, FL, near his home in Vero Beach. He was 86 years old ... Hugo Emil Robert Uyterhoeven was born on August 6, 1931, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, to a Belgian father and Dutch mother. He grew up in Eindhoven, where he experienced the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he obtained his federal high school diploma and enrolled at the University of Zurich, where he received a doctor of law degree, magna cum laude. He then obtained a doctor of law degree at the University of Ghent in Belgium. Uyterhoeven came to Harvard Business School as an MBA student in 1955 and earned his degree two years later as a Baker Scholar with High Distinction. He went on to earn a doctorate in business administration (DBA) from HBS in 1963. Before beginning his long and distinguished academic career at Harvard Business School, he worked as a research associate at the International Institute for Management Development (now IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, for a year. He then returned to Harvard Business School until retiring from the active faculty in 1998