Goodyear executive given Kent State business award

April 14, 2006

Donald Harper, Goodyear’s vice president of shared services, has received Kent State University’s 2006 Beta Gamma Sigma award in recognition of his “outstanding representation of the company’s values, ethics, support and commitment as a world class corporate citizen.”

Beta Gamma Sigma is the honor society serving business programs accredited by AACSB International, The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. There are 515 AACSB accredited business schools, representing just 15% of the world’s business schools.

Harper is a 37-year Goodyear associate. He worked with Kent State during a transformation period of the Goodyear Professor-Pilliod Lecture Series.