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The Romers also form a husband-wife team, working in macroeconomics and economic history. Both professors said they found the Kennedy School's renewed emphasis on macroeconomics heartening and look forward to helping to strengthen that area of study at the school.
Both David and Romer said the Kennedy School's emphasis on applied policy will be a welcome balance to the academic side of economics.
His tenure has been controversial among some Democrats for what might be called Kerrey's Merry Millionaires. His enthusiastic championing of wealthy businessmen such as Walter Minnick in Idaho, Tom Bruggere in Oregon, and former Glaxo executive Charlie Sanders in North Carolina (who last month lost the Dem-ocratic primary...
"I think it's going to go down as Neil's legacy," says Joseph S. Nye Jr., dean of the Kennedy School of Government. "Before, the whole has been less than the sum of its parts. Only with the emphasis on the University will Harvard achieve its potential."
Women have fared well in these appointments--three of the University's five vice presidents are now female--but the top echelon of leaders remains all white. "The emphasis on faculty diversity has borne fruit," Hoyte says. "But I would certainly like to see more progress with administrative staff diversity...