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...Stone served on the search committee that named Neil L. Rudenstine Harvard’s 26th president in 1991. And as the Corporation’s senior fellow until 2002, he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th. Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok ranked Stone “among the three or four most influential people of the last 25 years in helping to shape Harvard’s constructive influence on the world.” A prodigious fundraiser, Stone “would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote...
...list of potential candidates.“We in no way think of ourselves as having a different agenda from the search committee, the agenda being to find the best person for what is a very important job right now,” Verba says.Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok will not have a formal seat on the search committee because of the daily demands of his job, but he says he will still be “talking to the search committee.” TABLE TALKThe members of the search committee show no sign of taking the summer...
...Derek C. Bok, incoming interim president, said at the memorial service for the six-foot-eight-inch economist last Wednesday that Harvard “will never be quite the same” without...
...casts a long shadow, both literally and figuratively,” Bok said...
...resign at the end of the academic year, the Corporation scrambled to find somebody who could temporarily fill the University’s top spot. The top three contenders for the position were Keohane, an experienced University administrator, Provost Steven E. Hyman, Summers’ deputy, and Derek C. Bok, a former Harvard president who led the University from 1971 to 1991. Keohane promptly removed herself from consideration, according to the source close to the Corporation, and the fellows thought Hyman was too closely associated with Summers to be a viable replacement...