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...significant change” to be the next president of Harvard University. Six months after the Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, solicited names fitting this profile in 2000, University President Lawrence H. Summers was hired. The Corporation had high expectations that the Washington-trained economist would use the visibility of the Harvard presidency to take the University in daring directions. Five years later, Summers is leaving Mass. Hall, having lost the Corporation’s support after frequent tussles with a Faculty affronted by his leadership style. But during his tenure, Summers for a time...
...government lawsuit.University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a March interview that he “skimmed” McClintick’s piece. But many professors read it closely—particularly parts suggesting that Summers shielded his close friend Andrei Shleifer ’82, an economist implicated in the government lawsuit, from disciplinary action.“The story, if true, is damning to Harvard,” according to McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy.Nearly five decades after McClintick launched his journalistic career at Harvard radio WHRB’s then-headquarters...
...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...
...Wednesday, Feb. 15, Summers says he arrived at what he calls the most difficult decision of his life. Over the preceding week, he had withdrawn into a closed circle, including economist Gene B. Sperling—a friend from the Clinton administration—and Elisa New, the FAS English professor whom he married in December. He remained in close touch with Corporation members...
...judgements of the faculty and administration.Today, the KSG is very aware of the weight of its history. “We have worked hard on the[se] issues,” Dean of the KSG David T. Ellwood ’75 says, mentioning the recent hiring of economist Bridgette Madrian at the school this fall, as well as “several other women in the pipeline.” “Increasing the diversity of our faculty is an issue I take very seriously,” he says. “I expect the Kennedy School...