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Argyris Honored for Contributions to Research

Chris Argyris, the James Bryant Conant Professor of Organizational Behavior Emeritus, will receive an honorary doctorate this summer from London Business School in recognition of his distinguished research career.

In addition, the American Psychological Association will also honor him with its highest award, the Gold Medal for Lifetime Contribution to the Application of Psychology.

And the Chris Argyris Chair in the Social Psychology of Organization was recently established at Yale University, where Argyris taught from 1951 to 1971. At Harvard, Argyris held appointments at both the Business School and the Graduate School of Education.

Haar receives Gustavus Meyer Foundation Award

Charles M. Haar, Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law Emeritus, has received the Gustavus Meyer Foundation Award for his book, Suburbs Under Seige: Race, Space, and Audacious Judges. The award citation called Haar's work "the outstanding book on human rights for 1997."

Herzlinger Wins Book of the Year Award

Regina E. Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has won the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) 1998 James A. Hamilton book of the year award for Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest Service Industry.

The award is given annually to the author(s) of a management or healthcare book judged outstanding by ACHE's Book of the Year Award Committee.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences names new members

Harvard's James Carroll, Constance Cepko, Drew Fudenberg, Daniel Hartl, Christopher Jones, Randall Kennedy, Gary King, Richard Light, Curtis McMullen, Ken Nakayama, and Yum-Tong Siu are among the 146 people elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The inductees join a membership of approximately 4,000 Fellows nationwide, including 160 Nobel laureates and 65 Pulitzer Prize winners, who have been recognized for their contributions to sciences, scholarship, public affairs, and the arts.

On Saturday, Oct. 3, the new members will be formally inducted at the House of the Academy in Cambridge.

Ian Graham Receives Honorary Doctorate from Tulane

Ian Graham, associate of Maya Corpus Program at the Peabody Museum, was awarded an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from Tulane University. The doctorate was awarded in recognition for Graham's work, The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, published by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.