Word: helming
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When Jack R. Meyer took the helm from Walter M. Cabot '55 last July, he inherited a fast-growing endowment and a skyrocketing venture capital portfolio that had flourished in the 1980s...
Harvard had gone through its previous two seasons behind the strong arm of seniors Tom Yohe '89 and Tim Perry '90, but in this new year, no one emerged decisively at the helm of the Crimson offense...
When Robert D. Putnam took the helm of the Kennedy School of Government in 1989, he was heralded as an able academic who would lead the institution into the next decade...
Every 20 years or so, a new president takes the helm of Harvard University with visionary plans to build or strengthen one of the institution's pillars...
...Webster's four-year stint at the helm of America's vast intelligence network. He had ably carried out the mandate given to him at the outset: to restore the CIA's image and accountability, both of which had been badly damaged by his predecessor, the devious and headstrong William Casey. "Webster improved relations with Congress. Internally, he established stricter rules," says David Whipple, a former senior CIA official who now heads the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. "He did his job very well...