Maurice "Mogie" Lazarus (June 27, 1915 – May 4, 2004) was an American retailing executive who served as president of Filene's and founded Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

[1][2][3] His father co-founded Federated Department Stores in 1929 which entailed merging F&R Lazarus & Company (including its Cincinnati division, then known as Shillito's), Abraham & Straus, and William Filene's Sons of Boston, under a single holding company (Bloomingdale Brothers of New York joined in 1930).

[2] From 1945 until 1958, he worked at Foley’s Department Store (acquired by Federated in 1947) in Houston reaching to executive vice president.

[2] Lazarus served on the Harvard University board of overseers and was the director of the alumni association.

[2][3] He served on the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Advisory Committee on National Health Insurance and on the advisory board of the Commission on the Status of Women during administration of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.