[3] Over the course of his forty-year career as a faculty member, he became the Williston Professor of Investment Management at the Harvard Business School.
[1] During World War II Bates was the director of instruction for the U.S. Navy Supply Corps Midshipmen-Officers School (1943–45).
He was also a member of the New England Committee for the Quartermaster Corps for testing cold weather and mountaineering equipment (1942–44).
Reviewing it for The Journal of Finance, University of Washington professor Fred J. Mueller suggested the cases were outdated.
[5] Bates was an advisor to the Institute of Business Administration at Istanbul University in Turkey (1959–60, 1962–65),[2][1] and to the government of Tunisia (1967).
[3] In retirement Bates published A Bates-Breed Ancestry to document a lifetime of work digging into the genealogy of his and wife's ancestors, including all maternal lines, going back at least 11 generations, to the 16th century in many cases.
[1] He also served as vice president of Emerson Hospital[3] and was a member of the Governor's Committee on Public Transportation (Massachusetts).
[2] Bates is the namesake of an endowed chair at the Harvard Business School held by Luis Viciera [6]