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'''Sidney Harman''' (born 1918) is an American businessman who has been active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He is the Chairman Emeritus of [[Harman International Industries]], Inc. Harman served as the [[United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce|U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce]] in 1977 and 1978. As of August 2010 Harman is the publisher of ''[[Newsweek]]''. |
'''Sidney Harman''' (born August 4, 1918) is an American businessman who has been active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He is the Chairman Emeritus of [[Harman International Industries]], Inc. Harman served as the [[United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce|U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce]] in 1977 and 1978. As of August 2010 Harman is the publisher of ''[[Newsweek]]''. |
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Harman is married to [[Jane Harman]] (b. 1945), a Democratic member of Congress from California. |
Harman is married to [[Jane Harman]] (b. 1945), a Democratic member of Congress from California. |
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| Born | August 4, 1918 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Business As of August 2010: publishing |
Sidney Harman (born August 4, 1918) is an American businessman who has been active in education, government, industry, and publishing. He is the Chairman Emeritus of Harman International Industries, Inc. Harman served as the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce in 1977 and 1978. As of August 2010 Harman is the publisher of Newsweek.
Harman is married to Jane Harman (b. 1945), a Democratic member of Congress from California.
Business career
A pioneer of the high-fidelity industry, Harman founded harman/kardon, Inc., in 1952. He is known for the Quality of working life programs that he initiated at the company’s plants, especially for the program at Bolivar, Tennessee, which had some short-lived success has become a model for such activities in American industry and a principal case study at business schools in the United States and abroad.[1] 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.
Education and Philanthropy
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 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.
He 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."
Newsweek
In August 2010, Harman bought Newsweek magazine from the Washington Post Company. The details of the deal have not yet been announced, but according to the Washington Post, citing an unnamed source, Harman is paying a "minimal" amount of cash but assuming all obligations of the company.[2]
References
External links
- History of Harman International Industries Inc.
- Leslie Milk and Ellen Ryan. "Washingtonians of the Year 2007: Sidney Harman", Washingtonian, January 1, 2008.
- USC Website
- 2008 USA Today article about the effectiveness of old and young CEOs