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...people did not quickly forget what they had seen. After the game, then-University President Derek Bok said to The Crimson, “I sat there and didn’t really know what to think. I thought the Phoenix was again rising from the ashes....I thought I had seen...
...moving along quite rapidly. The idea of Harvard cooperating with industry is only about 20 years old. It dates back to a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Oct. 21, 1980. At that meeting exactly 22 years and one month from today, then-President Derek C. Bok commented that technology transfer could be “a possible way of increasing funds available to the University—provided we can do so in a manner consistent with our academic purposes and goals.” Thus, the original idea behind technology transfer was to increase revenues...
Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok published an essay in the same issue of The Chronicle criticizing university presidential salaries...
...essay, Bok questioned whether such high salaries are necessary to attract university presidents. He argued that college presidents are primarily motivated by a desire to have an impact on their campus...
...Universities are quite capable of sacrificing basic values in order to make money,” Bok said...