Ford's president, Stanford's fourth dean, and the name on the award
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President of Ford Motor Company, then fourth dean of Stanford GSB from 1969 to 1979. He made the creation of the Public Management Program a condition of taking the deanship, after the Detroit riots — the first program of its kind in the country.
The Arjay Miller Scholars designation, which Jonathan Hare received in 1992, recognizes the academically highest ten percent of a graduating MBA class. Miller died in 2017, aged 101.
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He co-founded the Public Policy Institute of California with Bill Hewlett — the same man Hare later thanked for the HP Way, through an introduction from E. O. Wilson. The graph keeps closing on itself like this.
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