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Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation as University president leaves the status of the dean search at Harvard Business School (HBS) uncertain.Summers appointed Acting HBS Dean Jay O. Light last June after the abrupt departure of the school’s then-leader, Kim B. Clark ’74, who took a post as president of Brigham Young University-Idaho. Though Summers has been leading the search process, some HBS professors have expressed doubts about the course of the dean search following Summers’ resignation. In an interview with The Crimson yesterday, Summers said he will guarantee that...
...Corporation has the power to appoint, single-handedly, to the most important position at Harvard, and for the foreseeable future, it will likely retain this power in an official sense. We hope that in practice, however, as the upcoming presidential search gets underway, it marks the beginning of an era in which the Corporation endeavors to engage students and faculty in more then a token capacity, in a way deserving of those who share the Corporation’s interest in Harvard success and who have the vantage of living the Harvard experience today...
...books.An obscure provision in the Statutes of Harvard University, posted on a University website, establishes a University Council, composed of “the President, Professors, Associate Professors, and Assistant Professors of the University and such other University officials as the Corporation with the consent of the Overseers may appoint members of the Council.”According to the Statutes, the University Council serves “to consider questions which concern more than one Faculty, and questions of University policy.”But longtime Harvard administrators said they had no recollection of the body ever meeting...
...Religion 1513: A History of Harvard and Its Presidents, let me summarize Professor Gomes’ theory on presidential selection: Presidents are often chosen to compensate for the failings of their predecessors. With complaints about Summers’ top-down style of leadership, it’s tempting to appoint a charming, hands-off president who will leave each of the University’s many divisions to develop on their own provided, so to speak, the chair’s still standing. It’s also a horrible idea. Harvard has traditionally operated under this sort of decentralized...
...judge offered to appoint him an attorney but Siebach declined, saying that he was already looking for one. The next pre-trial hearing is slated for April 10 in order to give the defendant enough time to find counsel...