Arthur R. Taylor

Arthur R. Taylor (born July 6, 1935) is an American businessman.

Taylor was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He began his corporate career with the First Boston Corporation. He was later Vice President Finance and Executive Vice President of International Paper Company. He was president of CBS from 1972 until 1976.[1] He then founded Arthur Taylor & Company, a private investment concern. In 1985, Fordham University named him dean of its Graduate School of Business Administration.[2] Taylor also served as president of Muhlenberg College for a decade (1992–2002), during which Muhlenberg tripled its endowment, halved its debt, and saw a significant rise in admissions selectivity. The College is now among the top 80 liberal arts colleges in the nation in terms of selectivity and acceptance rate.[3] He is a former member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[4]

He is married to Kathryn Pelgrift Taylor.

References

  1. ↑ Sally Bedell Smith, In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting, New York: Random House, 2002, p. 232.
  2. ↑ Staff report (November 17, 1985). Banker Fills Fordham Post. New York Times
  3. ↑ http://www.muhlenberg.edu/cgi-bin/news.pl?story=277_taylor.html
  4. ↑ "Former Steering Committee Members". bilderbergmeetings.org. Bilderberg Group. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
Business positions
Preceded by
Charles Thomas Ireland, Jr.		 President of CBS, Inc.
1972–1976 		Succeeded by
John D. Backe