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...There was a certain amount of ill will between the Kennedy School and government because Bok had put a lot of money into the Kennedy School,” says Roderick L. MacFarquhar, chair of the government department...
...Bok says he had to nurture the young...
...Kennedy School was very young, very small, very fragile, and it was fighting for its place in the sun,” Bok says. “That may have created some frictions that don’t exist anymore…It just had to struggle very hard and promote itself very vigorously. When you’re new, people regard you with suspicion, but that disappears as people get used...
...Kennedy School was born in a period of tension between government and the people who created KSG,” Putnam says. “It was like any rivalry between two siblings. Government thought the Kennedy School was an upstart getting pushed by Bok [that] had pizzazz but not depth. It was a conflict between the advocates of relevance and rigor...
...People whose experiences in political science at the Kennedy School tend not to be sufficiently aware of the very similar tendencies going on elsewhere in the University,” Bok says. “But there’s a great absence of collaboration between all the faculties of Harvard. Why don’t they collaborate? They just don’t, that?...