Donald Haider | |
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| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican |
| Other political affiliations | Democratic |
| Spouse | Jean[1] |
| Alma mater | Stanford University (B.A.) Columbia University (M.A. andPhD) |
| Profession | Business professor |
Donald H. Haider is an American business professor and politician. He has long been a business professor atNorthwestern University'sKellogg School of Management. He ran in1987 as aRepublican nominee formayor of Chicago (despite having been a longtimeDemocrat beforehand).
Haider was born in either 1944 or 1945.[2]Haider was raised in the northern suburbs ofChicago.[1]
He graduatedStanford University in 1964 with aBachelor of Arts. He graduatedColumbia University in 1967 with aMaster of Arts. He graduated from Columbia again in 1973 with aPhD inpolitical science.[1][3][4]
Haider has served on the corporate boards of Asset Acceptance Capital Corp, Continental Waste Industries, Covenant Mutual Insurance, Evanston National Bank,Fender Musical Instruments, InterAccess,LaSalle National Bank Corp, National Can, Talman Home Savings, and Westchester Insurance.[1]
Haider has been considered a property finance expert.[5]
In March 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Business Excellence Institute.[1]
Haider first taught atColumbia University.[1]
In 1973, Haider left Columbia University and began working as a business professor atNorthwestern University'sKellogg School of Management. For most of the next four decades, he would teach there as a professor of strategy.[4][6]
Haider served as head of the school's public management program.[7]
He has served as director of the Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management until 2016. He had played a part in establishing it.[1][8]
He retired from teaching full-time in late 2016.[1] He was made an Emeritus Professor in 2017.[1]
Haider was a congressional fellow from 1967 to 1968.[1][4] He worked in the office ofUnited States senatorTed Kennedy.[1]
After working as a congressional fellow, Haider worked at a guest scholar at theBrookings Institution.[1]
Haider was aWhite House fellow from 1976 to 1977.[4] He is the only academic to serve both as a White House fellow and congressional fellow.[1]
During the presidencies ofGerald Ford andJimmy Carter, he worked an assistant to three different directors of theOffice of Management and Budget.[1][4] In this role, he was assigned to refinanceNew York City, which was facing a potentialbankruptcy amida financial crisis in the city.[1]
Until 1986, Haider was a longtime member of theDemocratic Party.[9]
Haider had worked as an advisor toRichard J. Daley during his mayoralty.[10][11] Haider also worked as the Chicago city budget director (chief financial officer for the City of Chicago) underJane Byrne from 1979 until 1980.[1][4][6][11]
Haider served as deputy assistant secretary of theUnited States Treasury.[4]
Haider has also served as vice chairman of the Chicago School Finance Authority for fifteen years, during which time he helped refinance the schools.[1][4]
Haider, in 2008, served on thepresident of theCook County Board of Commissioners' task force on property tax classification.[12]
Haider served as an alternate delegate to the2012 Republican National Convention, pledged toMitt Romney.[13]
In 1987, Haider won the Republican mayoral primary, making him the party's nominee for mayor.[14][15][16] Haider had, previous to running for the Republican Party's mayoral nomination, been a Democrat.[6][14][15] The fifth overall mayoral candidate to be a resident ofEdgewater, Haider would have been the third mayor from Edgewater if he were elected (and the first sinceMartin H. Kennelly).[17] Ahead of the primary, Haider was endorsed by the city's Republican Party organization on December 4, 1986.[15] He had narrowly defeated 1983 nomineeBernard Epton for the endorsement.[15] The search committee to find a candidate for the Republican Party to endorse had been chaired byDan K. Webb.[10] After receiving the party's endorsement on December 2, 1985, he formally launched his campaign on December 3.[10] Despite the party organization having already endorsing Haider, both Epton and Democratic state senatorJeremiah E. Joyce indicated their intentions to challenge Haider in the Republican primary.[15] Neither ultimately ran. Instead, he was challenged by Kenneth Hurst, Chester Hornowski, andRay Wardingley.[16] Haider won the party's nomination in the Republican primary.
His candidacy was seen as a long shot.[18] However, Republican leaders initially hoped that the1986 election of RepublicanJames O'Grady asCook County sheriff was a sign that a Republican might be able to perform well in the 1987 mayoral election.[19] They hoped that a strong performance by Haider would assist the party in getting a Republican affiliated candidate electedChicago alderman for the first time in twelve years.[19] Republican Party leaders considered him the party's most qualified mayoral candidate they had put forth in a long while.[19] However, a March 1987 poll showed that very few of those that had voted for 1983 Republican nomineeBernard Epton in the last election were intending to vote for Haider the 1987 election.[19] Part of this was attributed to there being two other white challengers againstHarold Washington,Edward Vrdolyak andThomas Hynes.[19] He also 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 the1984 Republican Party presidential primaries had already begun.[19] His fundraising severely lagged behind the other campaigns.[19] Hynes withdrew from the race just before the general election, but this did not help Haider's performance.
During the campaign, in a desperate bid for press, Haider rode anelephant (an animal often used to symbolize the Republican Party) downState Street.[20]
In the general election he placed last out of the three candidates in the general election, only garnering 4.3% of the vote.
There had been hope by county Republicans that Haider might run forpresident of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in1994, believing he could perhaps stand a chance of winning the open-seat race for the office. A prospective Haider candidacy had amassed consensus support amongst the leadership in theCook County Republican Party to bslated (endorsed by the party organization ahead of the primary) for the post. However, Haider declined to seek the office, citing concerns about his ability to secure adequate funds for a campaign in light of the lack of funding his mayoral bid had received, as well as concerns that he might face challenges in being granted a leave of absence from his professorial post at Northwestern in order to campaign. He also cited a personal lack of interest in campaigning for the office as a principal motivating factor in his decision not to run, remarking, "I just didn't have the fire in my belly".[21]
Haider has been on the boards of the Midtown Educational Foundation, Chicago Catholic Charities, and the U.S. Rugby Foundation.[1][4]
Haider has long been involved in the sport ofrugby. In 2018, he was inducted into theUnited States Rugby Hall of Fame.[2] He played rugby while at Stanford University, and continued playing and coaching rugby throughout his adulthood.[2]
In 2017, Haider waswidowed when his wife Jean died. Jean Wright Haider was an author who had been president of theChicago History Museum and a board member of theChicago Lyric Opera.[22]
Haider has authored around 50 scholarly articles and in excess of 100 newspaper columns.[4] He has also co-authored a multitude books.[4] Many of his books were co-authored withPhilip Kotler andIrving J. Rein.
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