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In her recent appointment to a national commission on the BP oil spill, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean Cherry A. Murray will draw upon decades of experience in managing engineers and scientists—an asset that colleagues say will prove fundamental to her government charge.
But Murray's past year as a top-level administrator at SEAS is only the most recent capstone of decades of prior experience that many say might actually prove more helpful in her new government role than her administrative tenure at Harvard.
Murray's management skills, supplemented with her exposure to the intellectual riches of Harvard, provides the dean a deep understanding of risk management systems—an asset that will inform her contributions to a commission that ultimately seeks to shape the way that the government responds to oil spill...
Unlike most other university medical schools, which own their local hospital and earn revenue from physicians and patient care, Harvard Medical School does not receive funding from its various local teaching affiliates. Instead, the school is funded through government grants and its share in the University endowment.
Ennis, who graduated from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, served as the associate vice president for finance and financial planning at Harvard prior to joining the Medical School in 2007.