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...make a profit, they are subject to constantly increasing pressures to make ends meet. Harvard led the way for the industry’s response to fiscal reality in the early 1970’s, according to HUP Marketing Director Paul Adams, when then-University President Derek C. Bok hired Arthur Rosenthal, the head of commercial publishing house BasicBooks, to run HUP. Rosenthal brought a more market-driven approach to the press, actively promoting books and publishing works of greater general interest, and bringing HUP dramatically closer to the black and ahead of the pack...
Justice David H. Souter ’61 mentioned a study by former Harvard President Derek C. Bok to challenge Olson’s argument that affirmative action may in fact stigmatize minorities instead of benefitting them...
...Bok co-authored a 1998 book—The Shape of the River—defending affirmative action in college admissions to prove what he considers the success of the Bakke decision...
Thirteen years ago, HLS professors battled with then-President Derek C. Bok over the appointment of a search committee, claiming the faculty’s right to choose their own dean. That stand-off ended with Bok officially appointing a committee that matched the one the faculty had originally elected...
Currently, about 400 TFs attend the Bok Center’s fall teaching conference, and about half that amount go to the winter session...