Sidney Harman Net Worth

He took office in 1976 and sold his company to Beatrice Foods. Sidney left in 1978 and created Harman International Industries. By 1989 the company’s International sales were over $500 million. For three years he served as president of Friends World College. Harman was named “Entrepreneur of the Year 2007” by the University of Southern California Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. In 2010 he purchased Newsweek for $1 and assumed the company’s $47 million in liabilities. Sidney was married to Jane Harman. Sidney Harman passed away on April 12, 2011 at the age of 92 of complications from acute myeloid leukemia.