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...summer after his sophomore year, Ben-Shachar interviewed employees at all levels of the company and consulted with Harvard Psychology Professor J. Richard Hackman...
...virgin territory," he says. "So I relied basically on listening. I just listened to many people and tried to extract the main principles. I [worked according to] trial and error, and through the advice of [Professor] Hackman, I was able to minimize the errors and improve the organization." Ben-Shachar's conclusions yielded "substantial changes" in the organization and, he says, "they were successful...
This summer, Ben-Shachar will continue to lead workshops in Singapore. He is also helping to coordinate a two-week leadership program for next year's seven South African Nieman Fellows. In August, he and Lana Israel '97 will lead a week-long educational intervention program for township children in South Africa. Their goal, he says, is to "empower these children--to increase their belief in themselves, help them set goals, clarify their values [and] get a vision for themselves and for their community, so they can give back to their community." The program is being sponsored by Argus...
Ultimately, Ben-Shachar plans to meld his interests in education, philosophy and psychology. Having received Harvard's John Eliot Fellowship, next year Ben-Shachar is off to Cambridge, where he will study "education from a psychological and philosophic perspective." Afterwards, he plans to attend graduate school in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program that will allow him to explore his interest in the synergistic relationship among these three fields--perhaps Harvard's Organizational Behavior program, which includes coursework in the psychology or sociology departments and at Harvard Business School, and which offers an "ethics and the professions" program that would allow...
...Shachar notes that others are often amazed by his definitive-sounding future plans. He finds this amusing, pointing out that "if you had asked me at [another] stage of my life, 'What do you want to do?' I would have told you, 'I definitely want to be a doctor.'" After explaining his plans for the future, Ben-Shachar made a point of "qualifying it with the fact that they are bound to change...