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Barbara Hackman Franklin (born March 19, 1940) is President and Chief Executive Officer of Barbara Franklin Enterprises, a private international consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. She is an advocate for and adviser to American companies doing business in international markets, notably China, and is an expert on corporate governance, auditing, and financial reporting practices. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University and one of the first women graduates of Harvard Business School, Franklin served as United States Secretary of Commerce under George H.W. Bush, was one of the original Commissioners and first Vice Chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and was a staff assistant to President Richard Nixon. Altogether, Franklin has served five U.S. Presidents and, in 2006, received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service. She is married to Wallace Barnes, retired chairman and CEO of Barnes Group, Inc. ==Early life and family== Born as Barbara Ann Hackman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Mayme (née Haller) and Arthur A. Hackman. She attended Hempfield High School in Landisville, Pennsylvania. Prior to her graduation in 1958, she was the class valedictorian, president of the Student council, captain of the field hockey and tennis teams, and a cheerleader. In 1962, Franklin graduated with distinction from Penn State University and received its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1972. She is a sister of Kappa Alpha Theta and was its Beta Phi chapter president. At Penn State, she was the President of Mortar Board, Secretary-Treasurer of Pi Sigma Alpha, a member on the Liberal Arts Student Council, and a representative to the Student Government Association. Dorothy Lipp, the Dean of Women at Penn State, nominated Franklin for a full-scholarship to the Harvard Business School, which was, for the first time, opening its doors to women and would accept one nomination from Penn State. Franklin entered the newly co-ed Harvard Business School in 1962 as one of 14 women in a class of 680 men. In 1964, Franklin received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and was honored with an Alumni Achievement Award in 2004. For several years after her graduation, she worked in the corporate world. She joined the Singer Company in New York City, first in the consumer products division and then as a member of the corporate planning staff. At Singer, she became manager of environmental analysis, creating a new function that tracked competitive activity globally. After four years there, she became the assistant vice president on the corporate planning staff of the First National City Bank (later Citibank) in New York City from 1969-1971. At the time, she was tasked by the CEO, Walter Wriston, to study the Bank's relationships with government entities. Her analysis led to the Bank's creation of the first government relations department. She headed this department until 1971.〔Stout, Lee. “A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and a Few Good Women.” Penn State Libraries, 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Franklin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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