Donald H Haider is an American business professor and politician.
26 Facts About Donald Haider
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Donald Haider has long been a business professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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Donald Haider ran in 1987 as a Republican nominee for mayor of Chicago.
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Donald Haider graduated Stanford University in 1964 with a Bachelor of Arts.
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Donald Haider graduated Columbia University in 1967 with a Master of Arts.
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Donald Haider graduated from Columbia again in 1973 with a PhD in political science.
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In 1973, Donald Haider left Columbia University and began working as a business professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
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Donald Haider served as head of the school's public management program.
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Donald Haider has served as director of the Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management until 2016.
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Donald Haider worked in the office of United States senator Ted Kennedy.
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Donald Haider is the only academic to serve both as a White House fellow and congressional fellow.
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Until 1986, Donald Haider was a longtime member of the Democratic Party.
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Donald Haider worked as the Chicago city budget director under Jane Byrne from 1979 until 1980.
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Donald Haider served as deputy assistant secretary of the United States Treasury.
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Donald Haider has served as vice chairman of the Chicago School Finance Authority for fifteen years, during which time he helped refinance the schools.
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Donald Haider served as an alternate delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention, pledged to Mitt Romney.
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In 1987, Donald Haider won the Republican mayoral primary, making him the party's nominee for mayor.
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Ahead of the primary, Donald Haider was endorsed by the city's Republican Party organization on December 4,1986.
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Donald Haider had narrowly defeated 1983 nominee Bernard Epton for the endorsement.
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Donald Haider lagged in fundraising, with those opposed to Washington donating mostly to the other two challengers' campaigns, and with Republican Party members more focused on donating to presidential campaigns, as the race for the 1984 Republican Party presidential primaries had already begun.
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Donald Haider has been on the boards of the Midtown Educational Foundation, Chicago Catholic Charities, and the US Rugby Foundation.
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Donald Haider has long been involved in the sport of rugby.
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Donald Haider played rugby while at Stanford University, and continued playing and coaching rugby throughout his adulthood.
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In 2017, Donald Haider was widowed when his wife Jean died.
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Jean Wright Donald Haider was an author who had been president of the Chicago History Museum and a board member of the Chicago Lyric Opera.
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Donald Haider has authored around 50 scholarly articles and in excess of 100 newspaper columns.