1998-1999

Derek Bok

Derek Bok

300th Anniversary University Research Professor; President Emeritus, Harvard University

Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor, University President Emeritus, and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He has been a lawyer and Professor of Law, Dean of the Law School, and President of Harvard University.... Read more about Derek Bok

Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

DECEASED: formerly the IIsidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus

A specialist in business and economic history and a faculty member of Harvard Business School since 1970, Professor Chandler previously taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins University, and was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His major books include Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of the Industrial Enterprise; The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business; and Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism.... Read more about Alfred D. Chandler Jr.

Leon Eisenberg

Leon Eisenberg

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Social Medicine and Psychiatry, Emeritus, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Leon Eisenberg received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania (1946) and took his internship at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.... Read more about Leon Eisenberg

Lachlan Forrow

Lachlan Forrow

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director of Ethics and Palliative Care Programs at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Dr. Lachlan Forrow is Senior Fellow at the HMS Center for Bioethics, President Emeritus of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and Chair of the Advisory Council of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care at Tuskegee University. ... Read more about Lachlan Forrow

Charles Fried

Charles Fried

Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Professor Charles Fried (1935-2024) was a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center since 1990. Read our tribute to Professor Fried here.

Educated at Princeton, Oxford and Columbia Law School, Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor of Law, has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1961, where he was the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence. He was Solicitor General of the United States from 1985-89, and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from1995-99.... Read more about Charles Fried

Thomas R. Piper

Thomas R. Piper

Baker Foundation Professor; Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Professor Piper, Baker Foundation Professor and Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is a faculty member in the Finance and Accounting Units at the Graduate School of Business Administration.... Read more about Thomas R. Piper

John Rawls

DECEASED: formerly James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University

Professor Rawls is arguably the most important political philosopher of the twentieth century. In many ways, he was single-handedly responsible for the re-birth of the subject in the 1970s: It had been dormant for decades, in large part because of the influence of logical positivism, but it exploded after the publication of his classic book A Theory of Justice.... Read more about John Rawls