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Harlan Cleveland (January 19 1918 – May 30 2008) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 diplomat, educator, and author
Author

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. He served as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO
United States Permanent Representative to NATO

File:Kurt Volker crop.jpgThe United States Permanent Representative to NATO is the official representative of the United States to the NATO. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate....
, 1965–1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961-1965. He was President of the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, th...
 1969–1974, and the World Academy of Art and Science
World Academy of Art and Science

The World Academy of Art and Science is an international non-governmental scientific organization, an informal and non-official world network of individual fellows elected for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of natural and social sciences, arts and the humanities....
 in the 1990s and founding dean of the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public university research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States....
's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute ranks among the top 15 professional schools of public policy school at public universities in the country. Its program concentration in nonprofit management ranks fifth in the nation....
. Cleveland also served as Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, as a graduate school at Syracuse University, offers degrees in the social sciences and Public administration and International relations ....
 from 1956 to 1961.

He was born in New York City to Stanley Cleveland and Marian Van Buren.






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Harlan Cleveland (January 19 1918 – May 30 2008) was an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 diplomat, educator, and author
Author

An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
. He served as Lyndon Johnson's U.S. Ambassador to NATO
United States Permanent Representative to NATO

File:Kurt Volker crop.jpgThe United States Permanent Representative to NATO is the official representative of the United States to the NATO. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate....
, 1965–1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961-1965. He was President of the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment training center, th...
 1969–1974, and the World Academy of Art and Science
World Academy of Art and Science

The World Academy of Art and Science is an international non-governmental scientific organization, an informal and non-official world network of individual fellows elected for distinguished accomplishments in the fields of natural and social sciences, arts and the humanities....
 in the 1990s and founding dean of the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public university research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota, United States....
's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute ranks among the top 15 professional schools of public policy school at public universities in the country. Its program concentration in nonprofit management ranks fifth in the nation....
. Cleveland also served as Dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs

The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, as a graduate school at Syracuse University, offers degrees in the social sciences and Public administration and International relations ....
 from 1956 to 1961.

He was born in New York City to Stanley Cleveland and Marian Van Buren. He attended Phillips Andover Academy and graduated from Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
 in 1938. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in the late 1930s. He was an early advocate and practitioner of online education, teaching courses for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) and Connected Education
Connected Education

Connected Education - also known as Connect Ed - was a pioneering online education organization founded and administered by Paul Levinson and Tina...
 in the 1980s and early 1990s.

He authored twelve books, among his best-known are The Knowledge Executive (1985) and Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership (2002). He also published hundreds of journal and magazine articles.

He was awarded 22 honorary degrees, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom
Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Presidential Medal of Freedom is a decoration bestowed by the President of the United States and is, along with theequivalent Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of United States Congress, the highest Civilian decorations of the United States in the United States....
, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, and the Peace Corps' Leader for Peace Award. He was the co-winner (with Bertrand de Jouvenel) of the 1981 Prix de Talloires, an international award for "accomplished generalists".

See also

  • DIKW
    DIKW

    The "DIKW Hierarchy", also known variously as the "Wisdom Hierarchy", the "Knowledge Hierarchy", the "Information Hierarchy", and the "Knowledge Pyramid", refers loosely to a class of models for representing purported structural and/or Functionalism relationships between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom....
  • Information pyramid
  • International Leadership Forum
    International Leadership Forum

    The International Leadership Forum is a non-partisan, Internet-based think tank composed of policy leaders. The Forum participants participate in online policy forums to discuss the major issues facing global society....


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