September 30, 1999
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Management Award Named for Business School's Sloane

Carl S. Sloane, who left his post as chairman of Mercer Management Consulting in 1992 to become the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at the Business School, has been named the first recipient of the Association of Management Consulting Firms’ (AMCF’s) award for excellence in management consulting. In presenting its special award to Sloane in recognition of his "exemplary leadership, vision, and professionalism," the New York-based international association of consultants announced that the award hereafter will be known as The Carl Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting.

Hall, Franzese Receive Political Science Award

Professor Peter A. Hall of the Government Department and Robert Franzese Jr. PhD ’97 have received the Gregory Luebbert Award from the American Political Science Association for the best article published in comparative politics in 1997 or 1998 for their article entitled "Mixed Signals: Central Bank Independence, Coordinated Wage Bargaining and the European Monetary Union," published in the journal International Organization (Summer 1998).

Taylor Elected Fellow in American Psychological Association

For his work reconstructing the history of psychology and psychiatry at Harvard, and for his numerous efforts to preserve the legacy of Harvard figures such as William James, Richard Cabot, Gordon Allport, Henry A. Murray, and Stanley Cobb, Medical School Psychiatry Lecturer Eugene Taylor has been elected a fellow in the American Psychological Association. Taylor is also a senior psychologist in the Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and author of the newly released Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America (Counterpoint, 1999).

Young Leaders Win Community Service Award

Rebecca Onie ’97 and Vincent Pan ’95-96 have each won the $10,000 Brick Award for Community Leadership. This national honor, sponsored by the nonprofit organization Do Something, recognizes outstanding community leaders under the age of 30. Project HEALTH, which Onie founded as an undergraduate, has created programs to improve the health of lower-income children, drawing on partnerships between undergraduates, physicians, lawyers and social workers. Pan, former president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, founded Heads Up, which runs education and enrichment programs for lower-income families in Washington, D.C. Onie and Pan will be honored Oct. 28 with eight other leaders. Last year’s Grand Prize went to Mark Levine, KSG ’95, for his work promoting economic empowerment among lower-income, immigrant families in New York.

 


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