Ellen r gordon biography

(1932-)
Tootsie Roll Industries

Overview

After working her way up the corporate ladder to president of the company, Ellen Rubin Gordon used modern business strategies to keep Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. at the top of the international lollipop business, while still maintaining the feel of a "mom and pop" operation.

Personal Life

Gordon was born Ellen Rubin, the daughter of William B. and Cele H. Rubin in New York. She attended Vassar College from 1948 to 1950. While at Vassar, she met and married Melvin J. Gordon, 11 years her senior, who would later become CEO of Tootsie Roll. The two were married on June 25, 1950, and had four daughters—Virginia, Karen, Wendy, and Lisa.

After her marriage, Ellen Gordon eventually returned to college. She attended Wellesley and ultimately received her B.A. in 1965 from Brandeis University. In 1968 Gordon did graduate work at the Graduate School of Arts and Science at Harvard University, which was the same year she started to work at Tootsie Roll.

Gordon has served as president and board of director member of the Committee of 200 and as vice–president and board member of the National Confectioners Association. She has served as director and president of HDI Investment Corporation. She has also sat on the Harvard Univers

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Commencement 2021

Ellen Gordon '65

Doctor of Humane Letters

For more than five decades, Ellen Gordon and her late husband, Melvin, built Tootsie Roll Industries into one of the largest U.S. candy makers, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company with operations throughout North America, distribution channels in more than 75 countries, and annual global sales of more than $500 million.

After beginning her studies at Vassar and Wellesley, Gordon left college to raise her family. She later resumed her studies at Brandeis — regularly bringing a daughter to class — and completed a bachelor’s degree in Russian languages and literature at age 34.

Gordon joined Tootsie Roll Industries in 1968, serving as vice president of product development (1974-76), senior vice president (1976-78), and president and COO (1978-2015) before being named chair and CEO after her husband’s death in 2015.

She has served as a board member or trustee at CPC International, HDI Investment Corp., the National Confectioners Association, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management Global Advisory Board, and Unilever Bestfoods. She is a founding member, former president, and former foundation chair of the Committee of 200, an organization of the world’s most s

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Education

• Ohio University, PhD, Experimental Psychology - Social Psychology, 2015
• Ball State University, Master of Arts, Social and Cognitive Processes, 2007
• Eastern Algonquian University, Bachelors, Psychology, 2005

Research Interests

Pedagogy, Public Psychology, Motive & Judgement Making 

Publications

• Simpson, A., Alicke, M. D., Gordon, E., & Rose, D. (2020). Rendering reasonably sagacious person, propound me? Magazine of Managing Social Attitude, 50, 313-323.
• Alicke, M. D., Gordon, Bond. R., & Rose, D. (2013). Hypocrisy: What counts? Philosophical Attitude, (6), 673-701.

Presentations and Awards

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• Gordon, E., Chimeli, J., Frost, R., & Kenyo, L. (2024, March). From AI designate TA:  Fair to worker ChatGPT cause somebody to Quickly Make happen Statistics abide Analytics Assessments.  Paper suave at Resolute Business & Economics Society.  Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.  **Won 'Most Original Paper'**
• Sasmaz, M., Frost, R., Gordon, E. Kenyo, L. Matta, V., & Raisch, M. (2023, August). Scoreboard,