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...Past recipients of the Radcliffe Medal include singer Lena Horne, Harvard President Emeritus Derek C. Bok, American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole, Washington Post Publisher Katherine Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Harvard Overseer Doris Kearns Goodwin, and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno...
Nelson Y. Kiang, conference chair and HMS professor of physiology emeritus, characterized Harvard’s conservative medical institution as particularly “hostile” to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)—practices not commonly taught at medical schools or widely available in U.S. hospitals but widely available and trusted in China...
Even if a company were willing to try, it wouldn't be easy to imitate Lincoln. "So much depends on the culture they have built up," says Norman Berg, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School. When Lincoln embarked on an international expansion in the early '90s, it learned the hard way that its system wasn't easy to export; many foreign workers valued perks more than individual advancement...
Likewise for Hanna H. Gray, who as president emeritus of the University of Chicago and a former interim president of Yale knows exactly what it took to manage a modern university. A decade ago, Gray—then an Overseer—sat on the committee that selected Rudenstine. Now Harvard’s search was her fourth in four years, having also sat on the executive search committees for Bryn Mawr College, the Smithsonian Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Some had even taken to calling her the “Kingmaker...
...group were D. Ronald Daniel, former chair of McKinsey and Co., a Corporation member, University treasurer, and chair of the Board of the Harvard Management Company, which oversees Harvard’s $19 billion endowment; James R. “Jamie” Houghton ’58, chair emeritus of Corning, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of a half dozen companies ranging from Exxon Mobil to MetLife, who has most recently filled his time as the chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the youngest member of the search committee—the only...