Harlan Cleveland (January 19 1918 – May 30 2008) was an
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, educator, and
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. He served as Lyndon Johnson's
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, 1965–1969, and earlier as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1961-1965. He was President of the
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1969–1974, and the
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in the 1990s and founding dean of the
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's
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. Cleveland also served as Dean of the
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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
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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
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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.
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, 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".
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