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...This transition is really one of the great success stories of foreign affairs," added Robert D. Putnam, professor of Government...
...Malpractice seems to go in waves, and it seems to be on an 'up' wave right now. Harvard Treasurer George Putnam '49, who is the University's representative to CRICO, said recently...
...Putnam says he was very active in this stage of getting Sallie Mae off the ground personally persuading Harvard and other universities to buy stock in the early days. "I was just acting as a public citizen," Putnam recalls adding, "I said it's is a good thing. Let's make...
...Putnam convinced Yale, Princeton, MIT, Notre Dame, Stanford, Wellesley (where he served as chairman of the college's finance committee), and other colleges to invest in the fledgling company at costs ranging from a minimum $5000 to $400,000 the size of Harvard's initial stake. Those who bought the most did the best...
With the help of Assistant Treasurer George Siguler (now on leave as chief of staff of the Department of Health and Human Services), Putnam had little trouble selling others on the concept. "If Harvard thinks it's a good investment as well as a good thing to do that was a very persuasive thing," he says. "I just gave them the sales pitch and that's all they wanted to know...