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Business School's Michael Beer Elected to National Academy

Michael Beer, Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources, an organization that recognizes the highest levels of professional achievement and performance in the human resources field. Fellows are elected annually by their peers, and membership in the Academy is considered the highest honor that can be achieved by an individual in the profession.

Christensen Name To Adorn Utah Building

A new building at the University of Utah's business school will be named after C. Roland Christensen, Robert Walmsley University Professor Emeritus and a member of the Harvard Business School faculty from 1946 to 1990. Along with a group of Business School colleagues, Christensen helped develop the concept of corporate strategy in the 1950s and later earned a reputation as the world's leading authority on discussion-method teaching.

Kelman Receives Various Honors for Work on Peace

Herbert Kelman, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, received several honors recently. Last June, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association for Conflict Management. Later that month, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues "for his many contributions to the Society and its members." In August, at meetings of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, he presented the Lifetime Contributions to Peace Award address on "Building a Sustainable Peace: The Limits of Pragmatism in the Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations." At the same meetings, he presented the 1998 William Bevan Lecture on Psychology and Public Policy. In addition, he gave an invited address on "The Nature of International Conflict: A Social-Psychological Perspective" at the International Congress of Applied Psychology, which also met in San Francisco in August.

Hiatt To Serve on Corporation of Judge Baker Children's Center

Arnold Hiatt, founder of the Stride Rite Community Service Program at Harvard, which provides scholarships and grants for students who return to the inner city to do volunteer work and serve as role models for children, has been elected a member of the corporation of the Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston. Hiatt has also served as an Overseer of Harvard University.