Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration at the Business School, received an achievement award in May from the Organization for a New Equality, a Boston-based group dedicated to promoting economic opportunity for urban minorities and inner cities. Kanter was recognized for developing and leading the School's Business Leadership in the Social Sector project (BLSS), which examines the role of corporate America in addressing problems such as public education, welfare reform, and workforce development.

Alvin Silk, Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at the Business School, recently delivered the annual Wroe Alderson Memorial Lecture at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Alderson lecturers are selected to "exemplify the dedication and insights being brought to marketing by its current scholars." Silk spoke on "Restructuring in the U.S. Advertising Media Industry."

Philosophical Society Elects Seven Faculty

The American Philosophical Society elected 38 resident members and 9 foreign members at its Annual General Meeting on April 23. Seven Harvard faculty members are among the new electees. They are:

Moses Judah Folkman, Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery and professor of anatomy and cellular biology at the Medical School, senior associate in surgery, and director, Surgical Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital; David G. Nathan, President, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Richard and Susan Smith Professor of Medicine, professor of pediatrics, at the Medical School. Oscar Handlin, professor of history; Hilary Putnam, Walter B. Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic and Modern Math; Evon Zartman Vogt Jr., professor of anthropology emeritus, and Honorary Curator of Middle American Ethnology at the Peabody Museum; Mary Maples Dunn, Pforzheimer Foundation Director, Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College; and Patricia Albjerg Graham, Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education, and president of the Spencer Foundation.

Sandel Participates in Commencement Ceremony

Michael J. Sandel, professor of government, gave the commencement address at Rivier College in Nashua, N.H., in May. At the ceremony, Sandel was given an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.