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2010-11 Harvard Graduate School Alumni Association Council
Thomas Davenport
Thomas Davenport
AM ’79, PhD ’80, sociology, holds the President’s Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College. A widely published author and acclaimed speaker, he taught at the Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin. He directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index. Davenport has written, co-authored, or edited 13 books; has written for the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, and the Financial Times and has been a columnist for CIO, InformationWeek, and Darwin magazines.
Reinier Beeuwkes
Reinier Beeuwkes
COL ’62, PhD ’70, medical sciences, is chairman and president of Ischemix, Inc., a development-stage pharmaceutical company. He served on the full-time faculty at Harvard Medical School for 11 years after receiving his degree. Since then he has been active in the pharmaceutical and medical products area, including a period as head of cardiovascular and renal pharmacology at Smith Kline and French. As entrepreneur, Beeuwkes co-founded and is a director of several small medical products companies, including Braintree Laboratories. He is active in conservation causes and has served as a trustee of the Maine chapter of The Nature Conservancy. He still holds an academic appointment at Harvard. Beeuwkes and his wife Nancy live at “October Farm” (circa 1740) in Concord, Massachusetts.
Naomi André
Naomi André
PhD ’96, music, is an associate professor of women’s studies in the College of Literature, Sciences, and Arts and in the Residential College at the University of Michigan. Her scholarship focuses on 19th-century music, but her academic interests range from topics such as religious and political ideas in Schoenberg’s works to the collaboration of Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon on the album Graceland. Prior to her position at the University of Michigan, André worked with the Ford Foundation and the New England Board of Higher Education on shortening the time-to-degree and promoting diversity in the academy. André’s book Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the SecondWoman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera was published by Indiana University Press in 2006.