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Corporation members themselves don't hesitate to acknowledge that a good deal of tokenism goes into who is selected--the board includes a token professor, a token Boston-area businessman, a lawyer, and a token handyman for whatever project currently occupies the University's attention. And filling those roles are...
From Harvard, Mockler went to Business School, where he later served as a research associate and doctoral fellow from 1955 to 1957. And in 1957, he joined Boston-based Gillette as a comptroller staff assistant for insurance matters--beginning a long climb which culminated in a heady nine-year whoosh...
Officials at Gillette and other organizations on whose boards he serves--including Simmons College, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Museum of Science--say Mockler is exceptionally bright and deeply moral. He is credited with turning Gillette's balance sheet around during the 1970s by refocusing the company's dwindling...
Says E. Peter Gillette Jr., vice chairman of Minneapolis' Norwest Corp.: "Perhaps the philosophy is an agrarian holdover-the populists against the pinstripers." Small banks in the West have discovered one innovative way to survive: by renting the name and services of Los Angeles-based First Interstate ($41 billion...
The yearlong reign is not much fun, according to many a former winner. You address Rotarians, Lions, Kiwanians, Junior Leaguers, and you appear at Miss America preliminaries. Here a blueberry festival, there a strawberry festival, and the odd hog-calling contest comes into the picture too. And you represent the...