Henry Rosovsky

Henry Rosovsky was the Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. His publications included Capital Formation in Japan (1961), Quantitative Japanese Economic History (1961), Japanese Economic Growth (with K. Ohkawa, 1973) and The University: An Owner’s Manual (1990). He taught economics, history and Japanese and Korean studies at the University of California at Berkeley until 1965. Thereafter, he was at Harvard as Professor of Economics (1965-1996), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1973-1991), and, briefly in both 1984 and 1987, Acting President of Harvard. He taught as a visiting professor in Japan and Israel and worked variously as a consultant with the United States government, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and UNESCO.