Walter J. Salmon Dies at Age 84

Funeral services were held Tuesday in Boston for Walter J. Salmon, a Harvard Business School professor and retail expert, who died Sunday at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at age 84. The cause of death was complications from a stroke. At the time of his death, Salmon was the business school’s Stanley Roth Sr. Professor of Retailing, Emeritus. An active member of the Harvard University faculty for 41 years, Salmon shared with his students a global view of retailing. He had an insatiable curiosity about the way retail businesses worked. “He couldn’t pass a supermarket or retail development without going inside,” said his daughter, Elizabeth Frank. “He was completely interested in retail trends.” Salmon taught a variety of MBA courses, including the required first-year marketing course and electives in retailing and consumer marketing, as well as doctoral classes. As a member of the executive education faculty of the Advanced Management Program, Salmon taught courses to senior executives and middle managers and developed a corporate governance program. “He was consummately networked,” said his colleague, Stephen A. Greyser, the Richard P. Chapman professor of business administration, Emeritus. “He knew all the key people. Some had been students of his or people he met through

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