Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
International Business Machines Corporation
Education
Honorary Doctorate of Business Administration
Boston College, 1994
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Harvard Business School, 1965
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Engineering
Dartmouth College, 1963
Administrative Experience
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 4 years RJR Nabisco, Inc.
President of Parent Company and
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, 11 years American Express Travel Related Services Company
Director, 13 years McKinsey & Co., Inc.
Committees
Vice Chairman of the New American Schools Development
Corporation
A private, non-profit organization formed by President Bush and
endorsed by President Clinton to act as a catalyst for the
design
of the new high performance learning environments for American
children.
Vice Chairman of the New American Schools Development
Corporation
A trustee of the New York Public Library
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations
Directorships
Director of The New York Times Co.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Japan Society
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
Publications/Awards
Co-Author of Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in
America's
Public Schools (Dutton, 1994)
Documents public school reforms designed to enable our children
to handle the demands of today's
complex global economy.
1995: Received the Cleveland E. Dodge Medal for
Distinguished
Service to Education
The award is presented annually by Columbia
University's Teachers College to a non-professional educator
whose
career and contributions have led to the betterment of education.