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Sidney Harman (born 1919), Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries , Inc., has been active in education, government, and industry. He served for three years as president of Friends World College , a worldwide, experimental Quaker College, and is the founder and an active member of the Program on Technology, Public Policy, and Human Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University . Harman is chairman of the Program Committee of the Board of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies and a member of the Board of the Carter Center of Emory University . A pioneer of the high-fidelity industry, Dr. Harman founded harman/kardon, Inc. , in 1952. He is known for the Quality of working life programs he initiated at the company’s plants, especially for the program at Bolivar, Tennessee , which has become a model for such activities in American industry and a principal case study at business schools in the United States and abroad. Harman has written on productivity, quality of working life, and economic policy, and is co-author, with Daniel Yankelovich , of Starting With the People , published by Houghton Mifflin in 1988. Harman (Ph.D. in Higher Education, The Union Institute and University , 1973), a graduate of Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1939, has served as a trustee of the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association , and the National Symphony Orchestra . He is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Public Agenda Foundation; chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Business Executives for National Security ; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Council on Competitiveness; and a member of the Board of the Leadership Institute of the University of Southern California . He is married to Jane Harman , a congresswoman from California. In addition to the many programs he serves and has founded, Dr. Harman is a philanthropist and a member of Washington, D.C. ’s Shakespeare Theatre Company Board of Trustees. The Company’s new Harman Center for the Arts is named for his family with a performance space, Sidney Harman Hall , named for him. He also endowed the Baruch College Harman Writer-In-Residence visiting Professorship. The University of Southern California Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies named Harman the "Entrepreneur of the Year 2007" with the formal ceremony held on October 23, 2007.1
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Sidney Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer and businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing.A co-founder of Harman Kardon , he also served as the U.S.Late in his life, Harman was also the publisher of Newsweek , having purchased the magazine for one dollar in 2010.
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Sidney Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer and businessman active in education, government, industry, and publishing. A co-founder of Harman Kardon , he also served as the U.S. Late in his life, Harman was also the publisher of Newsweek , having purchased the magazine for one dollar in 2010.
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Canadian-American engineer and businessman Sidney Mortimer Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American polymath whose varied intellectual interests enabled him to flourish during a sixty-year career as an engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing.Harman made “high-fidelity sound [a] part of American life".Harman's career highlights include: co-founder, CEO and Chairman Emeritus of Harman/Kardon, Inc.Under Secretary of Commerce , Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, board member of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Isaias W.Hellman Professor of Polymathy at University of Southern California executive board chairman of Business Executives for National Security , member of the Council on Foreign Relations and CFO-owner of the Newsweek Daily Beast Co.Harman was active in business until his death at 92 years old.He died one month after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
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Canadian-American engineer and businessman Sidney Mortimer Harman (August 4, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing. Harman made “high-fidelity sound [a] part of American life". Under Secretary of Commerce , Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, board member of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Isaias W. Hellman Professor of Polymathy at University of Southern California executive board chairman of Business Executives for National Security , member of the Council on Foreign Relations and CFO-owner of the Newsweek Daily Beast Co. Harman was active in business until his death at 92 years old. He died one month after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
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