Sidney Harman

Sidney Mortimer Harman (August 5, 1918 – April 12, 2011) was a Canadian-born American engineer, businessman, manager and philanthropist active in electronics, education, government, industry, and publishing. Harman made “high-fidelity sound [a] part of American life". Harman's career highlights include: co-founder, CEO and Chairman Emeritus of Harman/Kardon, Inc, President of World Friends College, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce, Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, board member of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Isaias W. Hellman Professor of Polymathy at University of Southern California executive board chairman of Business Executives for National Security, member of the Council on Foreign Relations and CFO-owner of the Newsweek Daily Beast Co. Harman was active in business until his death at 92 years old. He died one month after being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.