- Robert R. McCormick
Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 - April 1, 1955) was a Chicago newspaper baron and owner of the "Chicago Tribune". His grandfather was "Tribune"-founder and former Chicago mayor Joseph Medill, and his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. McCormick was born in Chicago. From 1889 through 1893, he lived with his parents in London where his father Robert Sanderson McCormick was a staff secretary to Robert Todd Lincoln. - Philip Kotler
Philip Kotler (born 27 May 1931 in Chicago) is the S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He was selected as the #4 management guru of all time by the Financial Times (behind Jack Welch, Bill Gates, and Peter Drucker), … - John Evans
John Evans (9 March, 1814 - 2 July, 1897) was a U.S. politician, physician, railroad promoter, Governor of the Territory of Colorado, and namesake of Evanston, Illinois; Evans, Colorado; and Mount Evans, Colorado. He is most noted for being one of the founders of both Northwestern University and the University of Denver. Evans was born in Waynesville, Ohio to David Evans and Rachel Burnett. - Charles Moskos
Charles C. Moskos is a sociologist of the United States Military and a professor at Northwestern University. Described as the nation's "most influential military sociologist" by the Wall Street Journal (where his byline occasionally appears over op-ed pieces), Moskos has long been a source for reporters from the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today and other periodicals. - Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style (particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders), and for his deadpan comedic delivery. - Garry Wills
Garry Wills (born May 22, 1934 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an author and historian, and a frequent contributor to the "New York Review of Books". In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book "Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America," which describes the background and effect of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. Wills is an adjunct professor of history, both American and cultural, … - Henry Bienen
Henry Bienen is the 15th president of Northwestern University and has held the position for the last nine years. His extensive career in higher education includes 28 years at Princeton University as a distinguished political science professor, department chair and dean. - Charles Deering
Charles Deering (born July 31, 1852, Paris, Maine; died February 5, 1927, Miami, Florida) was a U.S. business man and philanthropist. Charles was the son of William Deering, founder of the Deering Harvester Company. In 1873 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and served as an officer in the Navy until 1881, when he became secretary of his father's company. - J. Michael Bailey
John Michael Bailey (born 2 July 1957 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American psychology professor, best known for his controversial work on homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexualism. Bailey obtained his B.A. in Mathematics from Washington University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1989, where he studied under behavior genetics researcher Lee Willerman. He became a professor at Northwestern University in 1989. - Robert J. Gordon
Robert J. Gordon is an economics professor at Northwestern University. He also holds the title of "Stanley G. Harris Professor in the social sciences". He is an expert on measuring and explaining productivity growth, the causes of unemployment and airline economics. From 1995-1997 he served on the Boskin Commission to assess the accuracy of the United States Consumer Price Index (CPI), having written the definitive criticism of CPI inflation-overstatement in 1990. - Erwin Chemerinsky
Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky of the Duke University Law School shares that hope. He told us, “I believe that the existence of the prison in Guantanamo and the treatment of the detainees there violates international law. However, if the base at Guantanamo should be closed, it is essential that something worse not replace it. For example, it would be much worse if the prisoners are then transferred to prisons in foreign countries beyond American courts' jurisdiction.” - Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications. - Melville J. Herskovits
Melville Jean Herskovits (September 10, 1895 - February 25, 1963) was a U.S. anthropologist born in Bellefontaine, Ohio who firmly established African and African American studies in American academia. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Colombia University in New York under the guidance of the great German-American anthropologist Franz Boas. In 1948 he founded the first major interdisciplinary American program in African studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, … - Mark Murphy
Mark Hodge Murphy (born July 13, 1955 in Fulton, New York) is a former American Football safety for the Washington Redskins who played eight seasons in the National Football League from 1977 to 1984. Murphy played college football in Colgate University before his NFL career. With the Redskins, Murphy played in Super Bowl XVII and Super Bowl XVIII. He played a key role in the Redskins 27-17 Super Bowl XVII win over the Miami Dolphins, … - James L. Allen
James L. Allen was one of the founders of management consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Allen was born on November 21, 1904, on a farm in Somerset, Kentucky. He spent his boyhood in Somerset, was educated in public schools, and graduated from Somerset High School in 1921. He attended business college and in 1922 moved to Chicago where he worked at several jobs and attended night school. Mr. - Frances Willard
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28,1839-February 17,1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. She was born to a schoolteacher in Churchville, New York but spent most of her childhood in Janesville, Wisconsin. She moved Evanston, Illinois when she was 18. Willard was elected president of the United States Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879, a position which she held for life. - Dipak C. Jain
Dipak C. Jain is dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics, Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serving for five years as the school's associate dean for academic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs. More information can be found at Dipak C. Jain's faculty Web page. Dean Jain was born on June 9, 1957 in a small town called Tezpur, Assam, a northeast state of India. - James R. Thompson
Governor Thompson has served on the board of Navigant Consulting, Inc. since 1998. As Illinois' longest-serving chief executive (14 years), Governor Thompson was noted for his skill in settling difficult labor-management problems, his ability to manage one of the nation's largest public budgets while maintaining one of the nation's highest state bond ratings, and his leadership among his peers. - Arthur Butz
Arthur R. Butz (born 1933 in New York City) is an American Holocaust denier and an associate professor of electrical engineering at Northwestern University, where has been tenured since 1974. Butz attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from which he received both his Bachelor of Science and, in 1956, his Master of Science degrees. In 1965 he received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. - James Lindgren
James Lindgren is a professor of law at Northwestern University. He was a leading critic and investigator of charges of scholarly impropriety against anti-gun scholar Michael Bellesiles. Later, and perhaps because of this history, he was chosen to investigate charges that pro-gun scholar John Lott had invented a study. He concluded both were likely guilty of serious misconduct. Lindgren blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy. - Mary Zimmerman
Mary Zimmerman is a member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company and is an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. She received her BS, MA and PhD from Northwestern University, where she is currently a faculty member in the Performance Studies department. She has earned national and international recognition in the form of numerous awards, including the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (1998). - Rob Warden
Rob Warden is the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law. An award winning legal affairs journalist, he is the co-author with David Protess of "A Promise of Justice" (Hyperion, 1998) and "Gone in the Night" (Dell, 1995). - Paul Milgrom
Paul Milgrom (born April 20, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is a professor of economics at Stanford University, Stanford, California (1987-). He currently holds the Shirley and Leonard Ely Professor of Humanities and Sciences position. He was formerly a professor of economics and management at Yale University and professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University. Dr. Milgrom, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, … - Pat Fitzgerald
Pat Fitzgerald is the current head coach of the Northwestern University Wildcats football team. He was selected after the unexpected death of Randy Walker and announced at a press conference on July 7, 2006. He was 31 at the time of his appointment, making him the youngest coach in the Big Ten Conference and in NCAA Division I-A football by five years. Fitzgerald starred at Linebacker for the Wildcats in the mid-1990's, helping to lead the team to the 1996 Rose Bowl, … - Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law in Evanston, Illinois. Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School. She is an author, lecturer, and lawyer. She has written extensively and lectured on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, motherhood, bioethics, and child welfare. - Tobin J. Marks
Tobin J. Marks (born November 25, 1944) is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University. His research fields are organometallic chemistry, photonics, metal organic chemical vapor deposition and molecular electronics. Professor Marks is the recipient of the 2005 Presidential Medal of Science. - Roger Schank
Dr. Roger C. Schank , FAAAI is one of the world's leading researchers in AI, learning theory, cognitive science, and the building of virtual learning environments. He is President and CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to to design and implement low-cost story-based learning by doing curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. Socratic Arts works with universities and corporations to develop customized degree and certificate programs. - Sam Zell
Samuel Zell , 66, has been a Director since 1984, and Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1985. He has served as Chairman of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C., a private investment company, since 1999 and its President since 2006; Zell has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Tribune Co., a diversified media company, since December 2007 and has been a Director since May 2007. - Shane Greenstein
Shane Greenstein is the Elinor and Wendell Hobbs Professor of Management and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is a leading researcher in the business economics of computing, communications and Internet infrastructure. His research and writing focus on a variety of topics in this area, including the adoption of client-server systems, the growth of commercial Internet access networks, the industrial economics of platforms, … - Mark Ratner
Mark Ratner is Morrison Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Ratner is interested in structure and function at the nanoscale, and the theory of fundamental chemical processes. He tries to bring together structure and function in molecular nanostructures, based on theoretical notions, on exemplary calculations, and (very importantly) on collaborations with experimentalists and other theorists, … - David Bradley
David Shedd Bradley (6 April 1920 - 19 December 1997) was an American motion picture director, actor, film collector, and university instructor. Bradley was born to a wealthy Chicago family that founded the Shedd Aquarium. He attended the Todd School for Boys (from which Orson Welles had graduated in 1931) from 1935 to 1937, and Lake Forest Academy during 1937-1940. He then spent a year at the Goodman Memorial Theatre Drama Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. - Randy Walker
Randy J. Walker was the head football coach of the Northwestern University Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference. His overall record as a collegiate head coach was 96-81-5. He also won more games than any head coach at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, ahead of legendary coaches such as Sid Gillman, Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Bill Mallory and Ara Parseghian. - Anthony Porter
Anthony Porter (born 1955) was a prisoner on death row whose conviction was overturned in a landmark case for Illinois law and opponents of the death penalty across the world. - V. V. Chari
Varadarajan .V. Chari is an Indian-American economist and professor of economics at the University of Minnesota. Chari received a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1974, and was a production engineer at Union Carbide (India) Limited from 1974 to 1976. Chari received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1980 and joined the Kellogg School of Management, … - Ravi Jagannathan
Ravi Jagannathan is an Indian economist. He is currently a chaired professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the exception of the period 1989-1997 when he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, Prof.Jagannathan has been at Kellogg since he finished graduate school. Jagannathan received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Madras in 1970, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, … - Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel (born November 29 1959) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map), which covers much of the North Side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County. Emanuel was chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2006 elections. After the Democratic Party regained control of the House, he was elected as the next chairman of the Democratic Caucus, … - Don E. Schultz
Don Edward Schultz is Professor Emeritus of Service at Northwestern University's Medill School. He is most notable for his research and writing on Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC). In 1992, the American Advertising Federation named him Advertising Educator of the year, and in 1998 "Sales and Marketing Management" magazine named him one of the 80 Most Influential People in sales and marketing. Often referred to as the "father of integrated marketing", … - Judy Biggert
Judith Borg "Judy" Biggert (born August 15 1937 in Chicago, Illinois), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing (map). - John Young
John Young is a literary theorist and assistant professor of English at Marshall University. Young received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. His research focuses on 20th-century British and American literature. - Andy
Senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio; former big cheese at the Digital Divide Network; itinerant correspondent for Rocketboom; video blogger; travel addict; new dad.
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