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When James R. Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, asked Derek C. Bok to return to Cambridge to lead Harvard a couple of years ago, the two septuagenarians joked that they were “both in their second time around...
...Like Bok, Houghton had also come out of retirement to reprise leadership of a beloved institution that had happened on troubled times. In 2002, after the stock of Corning Inc.—a glass and fiber-optics company that his great-great-grandfather founded in 1851—plummeted by 95 percent, the company’s board asked Houghton to return as chief executive...
...Houghton, the former Lowell House resident called “Jamie” by his friends and colleagues, accepted the challenge, because despite the other commitments he was juggling, Houghton felt a sense of loyalty to the company. Since Houghton still lived in the town of Corning and was already familiar with the company’s inner workings, he thought the transition back to chief executive would not be too difficult despite the company’s dire financial straits...
...sure that he wanted to because he made the decision to retire, but when the board asked him if he would come back, of course he would say yes,” said Amory Houghton III ’74, the nephew of the senior fellow. “The board trusted him, the employees trusted him, and the customers trusted him. It was a perfect match, and he brought the credibility...
...with bipolar disorder at 24, she suffered through life-threatening anorexia and bulimia (described in her best-selling book Wasted), self-mutilation, drugs, alcohol and numbing sex. With a proper diagnosis and treatment came self-knowledge and a remarkably stable life. Her new courageous book, Madness: A Bipolar Life (Houghton Mifflin) delves fearlessly into the experience of severe mental illness, in the tradition of An Unquiet Mind and The Center Cannot Hold. TIME reporter Andrea Sachs reached Hornbacher at her home in Minneapolis...