Video on (HC & HLS) Laurie Puhn's Instant Persuasion Book

Laurie's book came in the mail. I'm reading it.
She's all that and then some. Recommend it to your
friends. A video interview is available through
http://lauriepuhn.com .

March 16th, 2005 she'll be at the Commonwealth Club of
SF on her book tour (an HCSF co-sponsored event)
http://www.lauriepuhn.com/book_tour.html .

She is sticking it out there and doing her best. We
need to help. Send her an e-mail and say hi
laurie@lauriepuhn.com . Using her metaphor I call it
the Rule Zero wonder; use the power of your actions to
winnow a world you believe in.

Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

At Harvard, the Bigger Concern of the Faculty Is the President's Management Style 1-26-2005

At Harvard, the Bigger Concern of the Faculty Is the President's Management Style
By SARA RIMER

Published: January 26, 2005

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 25 - Among Harvard's faculty, the underlying conversation right now is not about gender differences and the ability of women to succeed in math and science. It is about Lawrence H. Summers's ability to succeed as president of the university.

The uproar over Mr. Summers's remarks suggesting that innate gender differences might explain the lack of women in math and science careers comes against the backdrop of distress over his management style, which has been building since he took over three and a half years ago.
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A dozen Harvard professors, as well as other educators associated with the university, said in interviews that for all his intellectual vigor and vision, Mr. Summers, a former Harvard economics professor, has created a reservoir of ill will with what they say is a pattern of humiliating faculty members in meetings, shutting down debate and dominating discussions. This ill will, they say, has helped fuel the fury on campus over what Mr. Summers initially said were meant to be provocative, off-the-record remarks at an academic conference here on Jan. 14.

"Larry is stimulating to argue with one on one and would be admirably controversial as a colleague," said Daniel S. Fisher, a Harvard professor of physics and applied physics, who has observed Mr. Summers in many meetings. "But with Larry as president, the rules are clear. For the president, it is fine to be provocative, but for faculty, serious questions and constructive dissent are squelched."

The support of the faculty is particularly important now, as Mr. Summers pushes ahead with his ambitious plans to expand the campus across the Charles River, revise the undergraduate curriculum, make Harvard pre-eminent in big science and bring more low-income students to the university. The many admirers of Mr. Summers say his brash style makes him just the person to lead Harvard into the future.

Steven Pinker, a star psychology professor who left the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Harvard a year ago, called Mr. Summers a "refreshing" change from the "bland diplomats" that he said college presidents tend to be today.

"He does speak his mind," said Professor Pinker, whose work Mr. Summers is known to admire and which provided much of the foundation for the recent remarks about women. "He subscribes to the idea that ideas should be discussed. He enjoys stating his position forcefully. He enjoys a forceful rejoinder. He doesn't believe people should wilt under the pressure of a good argument."

But his critics say Mr. Summers puts his ego before the university and its academic values.

"He just dominates faculty meetings," said Mary C. Waters, the chairwoman of the sociology department, "There's no dialogue. You speak and then Larry responds."

Most professors who were interviewed refused to be identified, saying they were afraid of retribution from Mr. Summers. Those who did speak on the record took pains to mute their public criticism.

Mr. Summers spent much of last week apologizing for his remarks about women and science and declaring his intention to recruit more women as professors.

In an interview on Friday, Mr. Summers said his propensity to debate and challenge "sometimes leaves people thinking I'm resistant to their ideas when I am really trying to engage with their ideas." Asked if he thought he needed to adjust his style, he said, "I've learned from this experience."

Whatever anger and resentment he has stirred among the faculty, Mr. Summers appears to have the strong support of the Harvard Corporation's seven-member board, which includes him and his former mentor Robert E. Rubin, a former Treasury secretary.

"I think he is an outstanding president and he has a chance to be one of Harvard's greatest presidents," Mr. Rubin said. He added that he was unaware of widespread faculty discontent with the management style of Mr. Summers.

Mr. Summers, who was Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, was only a few months into the job when he got into a fight with Cornel West, a star of the Afro-American Studies department, over his scholarship, which resulted in Professor West's highly publicized departure for Princeton. ("Good morning, Mr. President, who have you insulted today?" Mr. Clinton said to Mr. Summers in a telephone conference call after the West incident.)

Several months later, invited to speak at a conference on globalization sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Mr. Summers stunned many professors with his brusque dismissal of their views on the subject, saying those who voiced concern about the possible downside of globalization were naïve. At an early meeting with some 80 law school professors, Mr. Summers dismissed as stupid the reasoning behind a junior faculty member's suggestion about which departments might benefit by moving across the Charles River, to Allston, Mass., though he later apologized. Some professors who were present felt that Mr. Summers was dismissing the faculty member along with her suggestion. Professor Fisher and others cite many recent examples in which Mr. Summers has dismissed their views or questions, or put down their colleagues. Professor Waters said she and many other women on the faculty left a meeting with Mr. Summers in October feeling he had not understood their concerns over the sharp decline in the recruiting of tenured female faculty members. But Melissa Franklin, a physics professor who had spoken out at the meeting, said she felt encouraged afterward when Mr. Summers telephoned her to say he wanted to explore her concerns.
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Mr. Summers's reputation had preceded him to Harvard, and was even the subject of discussion on the presidential search committee. "When Larry was being considered for president, his provocative manner and insensitivity to others was the major criticism raised by skeptics," said Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition at the Harvard education school and an expert on leadership.

Supporters like Mr. Rubin "gave assurances that he'd gotten an education in Washington, that his rough edges had been smoothed," Professor Gardner said. "On the basis of what I have observed and heard from colleagues, I now believe, regrettably, that the supporters were expressing a hope rather than a reality."

Professor Gardner made a point of saying that in many ways he still considers Mr. Summers "an impressive leader," adding, "but I fear that his inability to anticipate the effects of his informal remarks - both in terms of content and in terms of style - could cripple his effectiveness."

His critics say that Mr. Summers brings a hierarchical management style that is especially ill-suited to Harvard, a decentralized institution where much of the power resides with the deans of the university's 10 separate schools and where many faculty members have their own large egos as well as lifetime appointments. A president, they say, needs diplomatic skills to persuade the faculty to support his initiatives and work out compromises.

"For me it's sad that Harvard isn't able to benefit from all the upside potential of Summers as a leader because he doesn't know what kind of organization he's operating in," said Theda Skocpol, a professor of government. "And he's often self-centered and discourages people around him." Professor Skocpol observed that Mr. Summers's advantages as a leader include his incisiveness and ability to "identify a problem and throw out challenges."

Mr. Summers has made no secret that he intends to shake up Harvard and that intimidation may sometimes be required. In a mostly admiring article in the British newspaper The Guardian in October, he is quoted as saying, "You know, sometimes fear does the work of reason."

Told that many faculty members had described him as a bully who squelches debate, Mr. Summers said the criticism was unjustified. "I've not, since I've been here, resisted a meeting or a discussion with any faculty member on the university," he said. "I've never suppressed anyone's views."

Told that many faculty members said he had created an atmosphere of intimidation, he said: "I'm really sorry if that's true. It's certainly not my intent."

Even his critics say Mr. Summers is highly accessible. He might insult someone in a meeting, they say, and then telephone afterward to apologize and solicit their views. The problem, his critics say, is that his confrontational style and tendency to criticize the ideas of faculty members in front of their colleagues requires an equally combative response. And, as president, he has the upper hand in the battle.

"If you come back at him and hold your own, you come out all right," said Everett Mendelsohn, who has been a Harvard professor of the history of science for 40 years. "I've done it on a number of occasions." But Professor Mendelsohn added that many of his colleagues, while no shrinking violets, nevertheless feel afraid to speak up.

Professor Waters says she is not afraid of Mr. Summers. But she said she stopped going to meetings of the faculty advisory committee for the search for the dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences because she felt Mr. Summers was ignoring the faculty's views.

Sam Dillon contributed reporting for this article.

Harvard In Mexico, March 1-2, 2005

The HAA Global Series convocation in Mexico City on
March 1-2 [2005] will bring alumni together to
participate in academic symposia and to learn about
important initiatives shaping Harvard�s future.
Harvard faculty will be joined by scholars and
professional leaders from the region on many of the
panels.

For more information, and to register for the event,
visit our website at
http://www.haa.harvard.edu/globalseries

IBM-Lenovo Purchase Program for Harvard Alumnae & Alumni Alive and Well

As the IBM-Lenovo deal goes forward, the new alliance
will remain committed to the IBM ThinkPad and
ThinkCentre products and dedicated to its relationship
with Harvard. You can expect IBM to continue to stand
behind its products, support, and warranty. Alumni can
save up to 32 percent on select models.

Check out http://www.post.harvard.edu/ibm/ for full
details about this exclusive offer.

Harvard's Tsunami Relief Efforts Take Shape

As the Harvard University community mobilizes
resources to assist victims of the Dec. 26 [2004]
tsunami, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers has
announced that the University will match dollar
donations to the relief efforts.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/daily/2005/01/06-tsunami.html

Services Businesses Attracting Corporate IT Budgets

The InformationWeek article asserts that, "employers
remain gun-shy about hiring full-time workers, so
they're turning to outsourcers such as IT services
firms to get work done."

According to VC/investor, Steve Brotman of Silicon
Alley Venture Partners who presented late last month
at the iBreakfast, there are regional variations, but
"services businesses" are attracting "62% of venture
capital" indicating a definite paradigm shift (away
from large corporate IT organizations).

In Brotman's view, the New York tri-state area is
primed for new growth in IT services businesses. Home
to "20% of the Fortune 500," Brotman sees these
companies turning to services organizations that "know
their industry." With an available workforce of
"590,000 tech workers," in the area, services business
will have an enormous talent pool to recruit from.

Brotman was joined by Esther Dyson, editor of Release
1.0 and Howard Morgan of Idealab. For additional
highlights, visit the web-log:
http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/12/21/ibreakfast
-3-wise-people-investors-visionaries-wrap-up-the-year-for-us
[enter above URL all on one browser line]

Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

Harvard Club of Silicon Valley Annual Dinner, RSVP by 1/20/2005 Please

If you can, plan on attending the Harvard Club of
Silicon Valley Annual Dinner; Wed. Jan. 26th, 2005 at
6 PM.

Here is a URL to a copy of their flier:
http://66.120.200.236/~perry/HCSVADflyer2005.pdf
[500K]

Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

Technical Architect/CTO

Hi everyone! My new venture is a technology company
focused on extending the value of games and game engines
to enable next-generation TV and cross-media programming,
including web, wireless and i-TV applications.

We are co-founding the company with a production
company in Hollywood that develops this type of
programming. We are interactive media and software
industry veterans with lots of product management,
product marketing and business development experience
in both large corporate and small start-up
environments. We also have founded start-ups and
served as executive level management.

The initial project driving this venture is an
amazingly compelling TV show that mixes reality TV
with sci-fi drama. Our partner is currently negotiating
a deal for the series with a major network and top
Hollywood production team. We have the exclusive
contract to develop key components of the technology
solution that will enable the TV show.

We are looking for a seasoned and talented tech lead,
preferably in the SF Bay Area, with experience in
distributed systems architecture and game AI to come
onboard ASAP and work with us to transform the customer
requirements and use cases into system architecture and
software design. And then, of course, we need to hire
a team and build this stuff.

More details will be shared under NDA. If you are
interested, please email me or call me at 415-846-4503.

Cheers,

Adam

Apple Suing 19 Yr. Old Harvard Student Over Speech Issue On Web Site

[One of our brethren needs an attorney for a case that
seems a little lopsided and draconian on Apple's part.
Perry]

[Extract from SF Chronicle article today:]

The 19-year-old publisher of a Web site facing a
lawsuit over an article about a top-secret $499 Apple
computer said Friday he can't afford to defend
himself.

Apple Computer Inc. is suing Harvard University
student Nicholas Ciarelli's Web site,
www.ThinkSecret.com, alleging it illegally published
company trade secrets. The Jan. 4 lawsuit also targets
the Web site's unnamed sources for the leaks.

Ciarelli, whose identity as the site's publisher and
editor was only published this week, is not named as a
defendant. But he still needs a lawyer, and said he is
hoping to find free or low-cost legal help to argue
that he deserves First Amendment protection and used
proper newsgathering techniques to break news about
the Mac mini computer and other inside information
about Apple.

"A lot of lawyers are interested in my case, but few
are able to do it for free or low cost," Ciarelli, of
Cazenovia, N.Y., said in an e-mail interview. "I'm
seeking representation."

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San
Francisco-based civil liberties group, said Friday it
would not defend Think Secret even though it is
defending two other sites, AppleInsider.com and
PowerPage.org, that Apple is trying to subpoena to
reveal sources.

Unlike the Think Secret case, those sites are not
being sued.

"In addition to being subpoenaed for sources, he's
being directly sued for trade secret
misappropriation," said Kurt Opsahl, a staff attorney
with the organization. "We're trying to find him
counsel."

Ciarelli, who described himself as "an enthusiastic
fan of Apple's products since an early age," started
www.ThinkSecret.com in 1998 when he was 13. The site,
which accepts advertising, is read by Apple
enthusiasts and industry analysts because of its
exclusive stories about company developments.

On Dec. 28, the Web site published an article that,
citing "highly reliable sources," revealed details of
an inexpensive, bare-bones Mac mini computer that
would be priced at $499 -- two weeks before the Mac
mini was launched at Apple's MacWorld conference.

Another Think Secret story on Jan. 6 correctly
predicted Apple's rollout at this week's show of a
$149, 1-gigabite flash-memory version of the company's
popular iPod music player. The Web site goofed,
though, on some of the details, citing sources
suggesting Apple would also offer a 2-gigabyte version
for $199.

In a statement Friday, Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple
said the Web site "solicited information about
unreleased Apple products from these individuals, who
violated their confidentiality agreements with Apple
by providing details that were later posted on the
Internet."

Apple declined to answer questions Friday about
whether Ciarelli, who called himself Nick dePlume
online instead of using his real name, would also be
sued.

Ciarelli's identity as the site's editor and publisher
had circulated recently on the Internet, but the
information only became widely known on Wednesday,
when The Harvard Crimson, the university's student
newspaper, confirmed it.

The Think Secret case is the third
intellectual-property lawsuit that Apple has filed
recently. Apple also sued two men who allegedly
distributed pre-released versions of its upcoming
version of its Mac OS X software, as well as unnamed
individuals for allegedly leaking details about a
future and as yet-unannounced music product,
code-named Asteroid.

At the MacWorld show on Tuesday, executives said the
company is merely defending itself.

"Innovation is what Apple is all about, and we want to
continue to innovate and surprise and delight people
with great products, so we have a right to protect our
innovation and secrecy," said Phil Schiller, Apple's
senior vice president of worldwide product marketing.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

LOVE IN THE SAND DUNES, Saturday, February 12, 2004

[This elephant seal "romance" event is a popular one
(and fun) each year. Let's help Paul T. out the
organizer (his # is below) and snarf up the tickets
please and go. Perry]

LOVE IN THE SAND DUNES

Saturday, February 12, 2004. Meet at 10 am, location
below.

Join other intrepid members & guests of the Harvard
Club of San Francisco to view the largest
mainland-breeding colony of Northern Elephant Seals on
the shores of Ano Nuevo State Reserve. Watch at a safe
distance while the males spar with each other for
dominance and access to the breeding females. You may
even have one or more of the cute new born pups come
up to visit your group.

We will meet no later than 10 am at the SamTrans Bus
Stop on Hillsdale Boulevard, outside the South wall of
Mervyns, Hillsdale Shopping Center. Be there in time
to park your car on Hillsdale Boulevard West of the
shopping center, no time limit there. Do not park in
any of the shopping center parking lots, you may be
towed away. We travel by SamTrans bus to Ano Nuevo
State Preserve.

Bring your lunch, snacks and something to drink. No
food available at the preserve, though there is a
souvenir shop with lots of Seal related items.

Dress in layers and wear sturdy walking shoes. The
tour is about three miles by gravel and sand paths.
Trip goes out rain or shine, but umbrellas are not
allowed.

Tickets are $15 each include bus trip and preserve
admission. Â They must be reserved and paid for in
advance. There will not be any tickets sales at the
meeting point. Paid for tickets will be distributed at
the bus stop. No refunds for those who buy tickets but
do not meet the bus on time.

Send your payment/reservations, no later than February
5th, to:
Harvard Club of San Francisco
P.O. Box 170424
San Francisco, CA 94117-0424

Email with credit card to:
harvardclubsf@sbcglobal.net

Phone: 415-621-3900
FAX: 415-621-3999

Questions, call Paul Toulmin 415-553-2261 days.

=====
Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

Through Harvard Recruiter NEC Business Financial Analyst Position

NEC Solutions (America) (www.necsam.com) is looking to
hire a Business Financial Analyst.

Summary: Supports Corporate Planning team with
detailed financial analysis for business plan
development and valuations for potential acquisitions.
Assists with other corporate strategy initiatives on
an as needed basis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the
following. Other duties may be assigned.

Build detailed financial models to support new
business plans for NECSAM. Research industry and
market data, work with internal teams to help develop
business assumptions and use existing cost data to
model a new NECSAM business under several scenarios.
Support to develop other aspects of business plans may
also be required.

Supports research efforts to identify potential
acquisition candidates. Performs valuation of
potential acquisition candidates and helps develop
term sheets. Some financial due diligence may be
required for some acquisition targets.

Maintains interface with Finance to understand and
forecast Corporate Planning and Marketing's budget.

Supports other corporate strategy initiatives,
including the launch of new business units, as time
permits.

Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree required. Undergraduate
concentration in Accounting, Business, Economics or
Finance and an MBA preferred.
- Minimum two years of financial modeling experience
at a top tier investment bank, consulting firm,
corporate strategy group, or private equity firm.
- valuations for M&A activity strongly preferred.
- Knowledge of IT industry highly desirable.

Located in Santa Clara, CA and travel of up to 25% may
be required.

Contact:
Please apply via email to dmh@dmhoffer.com. Start date
is as soon as possible.

cel: (415) 990 - 4633
fax: (412) 202 - 7685

Laurie Puhn Book Launch Details, 3-16-2005 SF John Henry Down

Laurie remember (HC & HLS) is in SF for a book
signing, March 16th, 2005. Co-sponsored by the
Harvard Club of San Francisco and the Commonwealth
Club of San Francisco the event is at CCSF.

http://harvard-sf.blogspot.com/2004/12/from-laurie-
puhn-jd-march-16th-2005.html
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"Laurie Puhn will launch her book: 'Instant
Persuasion: How to Change Your Words to Change Your
Life' this Sunday on... NBC TV's 'Sunday Today in New
York' / News. Tune in on Sunday, January 9, from 7 am
to 7:30 am to catch Laurie's Instant Persuasion
segment.

Order your copy of 'Instant Persuasion: How to Change
Your Words to Change Your Life' at a DISCOUNT today!
Be one of the first people to receive your copy as it
hits the bookstores nationwide on January 13, 2005.

Visit http://www.lauriepuhn.com/about.html to place
your order." [Extracted from a Laurie Puhn
announcement 1-6-2005]

I marshaled my copy on Amazon.com .

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 SF Lecture, "What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building"

Wednesday, January 5

What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation
Building

Noah Feldman, Associate Professor of Law, New York
University; former Senior Constitutional Adviser,
Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq

America is up to its neck in nation building, but the
public debate, focused on getting the troops home,
devotes little attention to why we are building a new
Iraqi nation, what success would look like, or what
principles should guide us. Noah Feldman argues that
to prevent nation building from turning into a
paternalistic, colonialist charade, we urgently need a
new, humbler approach. Nation builders should focus on
providing security, without arrogantly claiming any
special expertise in how successful nation-states
should be made. Drawing on his personal experiences in
Iraq as a constitutional adviser, Feldman offers
enduring insights into the power dynamics between the
American occupiers and the Iraqis, and tackles issues
such as Iraqi elections, the prospect of successful
democratization, and the way home.

Noah Feldman (AB '92) is Associate Professor of Law at
New York University and, in 2003, was Senior
Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional
Authority in Iraq. He is the author of After Jihad:
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy.

Check In: 5:30 PM, Program: 6:00 PM
At the World Affairs Council: 312 Sutter Street, 2nd
Floor Conference Room, San Francisco

Harvard Club Members: $7, Nonmembers: $15
To reserve seats call: (415) 293-4600, e-mail
registration@wacsf.org, or visit:
www.itsyourworld.org.

Class of 1986 January-February 2005 Notes

http://www.hmag.harvard.edu/classnotes/home.html

Secretary: Robert Payne Fox Jr., Nutter McClennen &
Fish LLP, World Trade Center West, 155 Seaport Blvd.,
Boston 02210; rfox@nutter.com ; Class website:
http://classes.harvard.edu/college/1986 .

Aaron Fox has written his first book, Real Country:
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke)
"I'm an associate professor of music at Columbia, with
a wife, Susan Lepselter, and daughter, Serena (4), the
works. I'm no longer making much music, but writing
about it fills the void." See www.aaronfox.com .

Former assistant U.S. attorney Paul Luehr has become
vice president in the Minneapolis office of Stroz
Friedberg LLC, a leading technical-services and
consulting company specializing in computer forensics,
computer investigations, private investigations, and
electronic discovery. Previously he spent three and a
half years as a federal prosecutor with the U.S.
attorney's office in Minnesota, where he worked on a
variety of computer-crime cases and lectured on
Internet investigations, both in the United States and
abroad. Previously, he was assistant director at the
Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and
oversaw the agency's Internet fraud program.

Born: to Andy Opel and Ansje Burdick, a daughter,
Winni Frances, on July 5 in Gilford, N.H. "We live in
Tallahassee, Fla., where I am an assistant professor
teaching documentary video production and critical
media studies at Florida State. We decided to take the
summer off, avoid the Florida heat, and have the baby
at the house of Jane Opel '50, HRP '51, on Lake
Winnipesaukee in N.H. Winni's name is a tribute to our
five generations on the lake. Our southern friends
accused us of wanting a Yankee baby and they might be
right! My latest book is Micro Radio and the FCC:
Media Activism and the Struggle over Broadcast Policy
(Praeger), which describes the emerging media activism
and reform movement. I also edited a collection of
essays, Representing Resistance: Media, Civil
Disobedience, and the Global Justice Movement
(Praeger). Ansje will continue to work part time as a
project manager for a software company in Tallahassee.
We'd love to hear from classmates, and if you find
yourself on the forgetten coast of Florida, please
look us up."

Jill Vialet, founder of Sports4Kids, a nonprofit
organization in Oakland providing full-time
youth-sports programming at 64 public elementary and
middle schools in the Bay Area, has won a fellowship
from Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. In addition to
a three-year stipend, fellows receive training and
technical assistance, and can apply for supplemental
funding for collaborative projects. Previously Vialet
was a found er and executive director at Oakland's
Museum of Children's Art.

Yahoo Hiring Director of Product Marketing

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MARKETING

Yahoo! is currently looking for an accomplished
product marketing executive with exceptional
professional presence, communication skills, and
native intelligence. This position will be extremely
visible within the company and the industry and will
require someone with experience handling and managing
relationships within their own organization as well as
with other organizations in a start-up and rapid
growth environment.

Responsibilities:
* Lead team of product marketing managers focused on
delivering optimal customer solutions
* Creation of a company product strategy roadmap
* Competitive analysis
* Creatively identify new possibilities for revenues
and partnerships, as well as participate in the
execution of the business plan
* Manage P&L for solution segments
* Direct Product launch strategy and marketing support
* Engage in "buy vs. build" assessments of strategic
initiatives

Qualifications:
* Should have a track record of building products and
revenues on a large scale
* Experience and comfort in leading teams in high
visibility and undefined market
* Experience launching products which have lead to
significant market success
* Solid experience with increasing levels of
responsibility, ideally coming from an web/internet,
or software industry background
* Created and implemented successful product strategy
roadmaps
* Defined organizational requirements including
demonstrated ability to successfully to manage a
high-energy team by defining goals, establishing
accountability, and executing to plan
* Analytical/problem solving with strong attention to
detail
* Experience managing a product line P&L
* Strategic, creative, innovative thinker
* Exceptional interpersonal and communications (oral
and written) - professional, clear, concise, and
direct
* MBA desirable

Qualified candidates should submit their resumes to
asoohoo@yahoo-inc.com .

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

HCSF Membership Fees

Jan. 1st, 2005, William Fitzpatrick raised the
question on the harvard-sf discussion list: "How about
some sense of potential membership dues [HCSF]?"

Here's a URL to our current fees and the application:
http://www.harvardclub-norcal.org/hcsf/MemApp2004-2005.pdf

Crimson Member -- $250 or more
Supporting Member -- $150
Regular Member -- $50
Recent Graduates -- $10 (first year only)

The above will give Harvard Club of San Francisco
members "limited" access to the physical club. When
the deal is final we'll be able to articulate a "full"
access to the entire facility (additional) line item
and associated pricing structure. That announcement
will have to wait until after our next Board meeting
and everything is ratified and approved. If you
haven't done so already, sign up and join the Club.
We could use your help and opinions and energy.
Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

What Should The Harvard Club of SF Do?

We have some non-paltry announcements for HCSF in the
next months. There are plans [in the final stages]
for a physical location, returning to the original
"Club House" on Powell Street, Nob Hill. Big deal,
great facility, food, bar, rooms to stay in, notable
views; cheap discounted by your graduation year
prices, only indoor squash courts around, workout
equipment, sauna, lockers. Second we are going to
have a cogent web site deployed soon.

Many activities are being considered for 2005. That
said we don't want to operate in a vacuum of only
Board member opinion at a commodious location on Nob
Hill. We are a non-profit charitable 501(c)(3)
organization. As such we want to hear from you.

If you have intellections for activities send us an
e-mail, Amy Hanson, ah@post.harvard.edu & Perry Gregg,
bengt@post.harvard.edu . Your opinion can help us add
to, edit and prioritize our list. Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu