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Barry R. Bloom is dean of the Harvard School of Public Health...
Just weeks earlier, however, the appointment was far from certain. As late as January, several members of the search committee were unsure whether Faust, the founding dean of the the University’s smallest academic unit, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, was capable of leading an institution of Harvard’s size, according to three individuals close to the search process...
...over the course of 20 meetings, taking place everywhere from Harvard’s Loeb House to the Citigroup compound in Armonk, N.Y., Faust’s candidacy seemingly beat the odds. A woman, a non-alum, and a low-profile dean became the first insider in 30 years to be named Harvard’s president...
Inside Harvard, the committee most seriously considered two candidates in addition to Faust: Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. Summers had appointed both. When Corporation members scrambled to find a replacement for Summers after his abrupt resignation last year, they passed over Hyman, whom many considered a natural candidate for the job, in favor of Derek C. Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991. The provost had a reputation for being overly talkative about sensitive topics, and some committee members had doubts about his ability to tackle large-scale projects, according...
Kagan had managed to push through a major curricular review and enjoyed significant popularity among students and faculty during her three years as dean, but committee members thought her management style might come to echo the brashness of the Summers era, the two sources said. She was also perceived as lacking the intellectual breadth and depth that would be needed to earn her the respect of humanists and scientists alike in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to the sources...