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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 to the top from the office of treasurer. He took five big steps up the corporate ladder from 1967 to 1971, became president and chief operating officer in 1974, and finally chairman...
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 resources out of new product lines and into better organizing and advertising. At the same time, he takes credit for Gillette's strict adherence to the Sullivan Principles, a set of progressive labor rules for companies with South Africa operations...
...truly has an unusual brilliance, an ability to see solutions in business terms," says Milton L. Glass, who now holds Mockler's old post as Gillette treasurer...
...same time, Mockler is known as a deeply cautious, conservative Boston businessman. He rarely gives Crimson reporters interviews and even less frequently agrees to comment on Harvard affairs. His involvement with Harvard's governing boards dates back to a stint as chairman of the board of Overseers and an advisor to Bok on University-industry relations. At the time he was chosen, Harvard needed a replacement for 28-year Corporation member Francis H. Burr '35, a lawyer with the local firm of Ropes and Gray. And Mockler was perfect replacement Like Burr, he is a solid, cautious, but forceful...
Much like Mockler, George Putnam Jr. '49, who as Treasurer also holds the title and responsibilities of a Fellow, is a successful Boston businessman. Very much a Brahmin, Putnam oversees the huge Putnam Family of Funds, a group of 19 different mutual funds...