John Francis Lubin, former associate dean of Wharton and emeritus professor of management who was with Penn for over 40 years, died April 22. He was 92.

Dr. Lubin served in the US Navy and was a World War II veteran. He earned his BA in electrical engineering from the College of Engineering at NYU in 1947, his MS in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and his PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956.

Dr. Lubin first taught at Penn in 1949 as an instructor in industry at Wharton. After earning his PhD, he joined the faculty as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 1960. He became a full professor of management in 1968. He went on to serve as chair of the management department and was associate dean of the School for over 12 years. Dr. Lubin held a number of other positions within Wharton during his tenure, including professor of industry, member of the Operations Research faculty, director of Wharton International Affairs, and he was in charge of Information Systems.

Dr. Lubin held several secondary appointments during his time at Wharton, including  professor of decision science and legal studies. He was associate director of the Management Science Center from 1961 to 1963, and he also served as director for Computing Activities for the entire University. He held numerous other positions at Penn, including chair of the Communications Committee of the University Council and for the Committee on Committees. Dr. Lubin was a member of the Committee on Operations Research of the Graduate Group in Economics in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and had much to do with establishing the Operations Research Option in the Wharton Graduate Division.

Beyond Penn, Dr. Lubin was a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 1963 to 1964. He served on the boards of directors of four New York Stock Exchange enterprises. He was a member of the board of trustees of EDUCOM, the inter-university communications council, was editor in chief of Computing Reviews, and was a member of the NSF-supported ACM Curriculum Committee on Computing Education and Management.

He served as a consultant to several organizations, including the US Air Force, the US Navy, Philadelphia Board of Education, the Auerbach Corporation, Bell Telephone Laboratories, International Business Machines Corporation, General Electric and Westinghouse. He retired from Penn in 1992, earning emeritus status at that time.

Dr. Lubin is survived by his wife, Jean; nieces and nephews Diana, James, Frank and Elizabeth, their spouses, their children, and great-nieces and great-nephews.