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...forefront of higher education, it must overcome its overwhelming inertia. But the course is difficult, and will require a bold, visionary, and audacious helmsman to chart.For that role we turn to a small crew of 11 who will steer Harvard into the future—Interim President Derek C. Bok, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Jeremy R. Knowles, and the nine members of the Presidential Search Committee. Their task, above all, is to ensure that Harvard does not rest on its laurels—it cannot if it hopes to remain...
...body—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...
...narrows its 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...
...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...
Come July 1, Derek C. Bok, the man who then held the helm of the University, will return to lead Harvard as interim president...