ON THE AGENDA

Will a Delay on the Climate Treaty be Time Well-Spent?

Scott Bittle
Nov 16, 2009

World leaders flatly admitted this weekend what everyone pretty much knew: there won't be a major deal on climate change at the big conference in Copenhagen next month. Instead, leaders will try to keep the process going, in hopes of coming up with a deal next year.

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Listening To Young Americans On The Deficit

Francie Grace
Nov 13, 2009

You wouldn't think the bottom line on the $1.6 trillion federal budget deficit and $11.9 trillion national debt crisis could be summed up in a single sentence, but when the right words whizzed by, the Wall Street Journal's David Wessel was quick to point them out.

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Sidney Harman

Founder and chairman emeritus of Harman International Industries

Sidney Harman

Sidney Harman is founder and chairman emeritus of Harman International Industries, widely known for the Quality of Working Life programs Dr. Harman initiated at the company's plants around the world.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees at Freedom House, the Harman Family Foundation, and is chairman of the program committee at The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Dr. Harman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council on Competitiveness, and the Board of the Leadership Institute of the University of Southern California, where he currently holds the Judge Robert Widney University Chair.

Dr. Harman served as the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1978, and founded the program on Technology, Public Policy and Human Development at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1970 to 1973, Dr. Harman served as president of Friends World College, the world-wide experimental Quaker college. He remains a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He is a trustee emeritus of The Carter Center and is a former board member of the Martin Luther King Center for Social Change, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and the National Symphony Orchestra. In appreciation for his dedication to the arts, the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., recently named the Harman Center for the Arts in honor of Dr. Harman and his family.

Dr. Harman is the co-author, with Public Agenda chairman and co-founder Daniel Yankelovich, of Starting With The People, published by Houghton Mifflin in June 1988, and the author of Mind Your Own Business, published by Currency/Doubleday in October 2003.