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

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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

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

Andrew L. Kaufman

Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Professor Kaufman joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1965. Since then he has taught in the fields of the legal profession,...

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

Amartya Sen

Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University

Professor Sen's research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997), Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics (1987), The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), and Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006).... Read more about Amartya Sen

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