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Howard Harrison is an award-winning journalist with more than 35 years of experience writing for corporations and other organizations. His work ranges from speeches and video scripts for Fortune 500 CEOs to articles and books outside the corporate sector. He recently published his first bylined book title: NOW They Make it Legal: Reflections of an Aging Baby Boomer.
Mr. Harrison earned his journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1978. After college, he worked as a writer, editor and communications executive for several large organizations in the Chicago area before forming his own business - Harrison Editorial Inc. - in 1994. He recently ghost-wrote a book on a father's experience raising a son with autism.
Mr. Harrison began his career with Walgreen Company as editor of the company magazine, Walgreen World, and managed grand opening publicity for new Walgreen stores. In 1980, he joined the Hospital Financial Management Association as writer/editor of an 84-page journal. He then was tapped by the accounting firm Alexander Grant & Company to lead communications for the newly formed Grant Thornton International - the product of a merger between Alexander Grant in the United States and Thornton Baker in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Harrison later worked as an "editor at large" for the American Bar Association Press before landing at Baxter International, a global health care products company, in 1983. He led employee communications during Baxter's historic merger with American Hospital Supply Corporation in 1985 and created a new employee magazine that won the Gold Quill Award of Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators in 1991.
Mr. Harrison later served as executive writer and editor at Baxter, writing speeches for senior executives and managing the company's annual shareholder report, which won numerous awards under his direction. As president of Harrison Editorial Inc., Mr. Harrison has provided writing and editorial services to a range of clients and has won numerous awards for his writing.
