Marina von Neumann Whitman is Professor of
Business Administration and Public Policy at the University of
Michigan, USA. From 1979 until 1992 she was an officer of the
General Motors Corporation, first as Vice President and Chief
Economist and later as Vice President and Group Executive for
Public Affairs. Prior to her appointment at GM, Professor Whitman
was a member of the faculty in the Department of Economics at the
University of Pittsburgh. She served as a member of the President’s
Council of Economic Advisers in 1972-73, while on leave from the
University. A retired director of Alcoa, JPMorgan Chase, Procter &
Gamble, and Unocal, she serves or has served on numerous national
boards and committees dealing with economic and governmental
issues, as well as on the Boards of Harvard and Princeton
Universities and of the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton.
Whitman holds honourary degrees from more than twenty colleges and
universities and is a member of a number of honorary associations,
including Phi Beta Kappa and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. She is the author of many articles and several books,
including New World, New Rules: The Changing Role of the American
Corporation, published by the Harvard Business School Press in
1999. Her research interests centre on international trade and
finance and corporate governance, including global corporate social
responsibility (GCSR) on the part of multinational corporations,
and how the concept is expanding. Whitman and her husband, Bob,
Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh,
reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Marina Whitman may be the daughter of a Martian but she is an
exemplar of the best of America. In the academic world, in public
service, in high corporate positions, she pushed the frontiers of
female participation and did so by unambiguously demonstrating both
competence and character. The book is a fascinating saga of an
exceptionally talented family, initially focused on a mathematic
genius but ultimately growing in diversity and influence. - Paul
Volcker, formerly Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)
""How did a young Hungarian immigrant and his daughter both become
leading advisors to Presidents of the United States? This richly
detailed memoir not only illuminates Marina von Neumann Whitman's
ground-breaking life, but sheds long-awaited new light on her
father, bringing us as close as we may ever get to the
autobiography that John von Neumann never had the chance to
write."" - George Dyson, author of Darwin Among the Machines,
Project Orion, and Turing's Cathedral
""A fast-paced, readable, and deeply educational account of how the
daughter of a genius made her own brilliant way as a heavily
involved top economist and an equally involved wife and mother."" -
George P. Shultz, The Hoover Institution, formerly U.S. Secretary
of State (1982-1989)
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