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...letter, Fineberg said that he has shared his plans with president-elect of the University Lawrence H. Summers, and will be "fully available to him and others to offer my counsel in whatever ways will be most helpful...
...free speech and it is not a champion of humanitarian values. This issue is really a no-brainer, but for some reason it is a fly-in-the-ointment for Harvard. We must continue to fight until a satisfactory resolution is achieved. Larry H. Summers, the University's president-elect, can start off on the right foot and implement a living wage as his first action to right the wrong of underpaying workers and set Harvard on a positive track of social responsibility. Until then, I will join the hundreds of parents and alums who have pledged not to donate...
President-elect Lawrence H. Summers will want to know the cost of adding one more student to each of Harvard's various programs. Expect enlargement of schools with the lowest marginal costs...
Cradled in the posh elegance of Loeb House, the secretive Harvard Corporation officially introduced us March 10 to the University's new "president-elect." Yet the democratic connotations of the term "elect," used by search committee chair and Senior Fellow of the Corporation Robert G. Stone '45, are belied by the intense secrecy surrounding the process and the narrow constituency that catapulted Lawrence H. Summers from his current position at the Brookings Institution to the Harvard throne...
Although no company would allow its customers to choose its CEO, the Academy has more exalted and diverse ends than simply turning a profit. Given that six of the nine members of the search committee come from the business world, our "president-elect" was chosen by the smallest of constituencies. Harvard professors, the group that may be most impacted by the presidential choice, had no seats on the search committee. The alumni-elected Board of Overseers, which voted 18-0 to confirm the choice a week ago Sunday, was alerted of its emergency Manhattan meeting only days before it occurred...