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Following Summers’ resignation, the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s most powerful governing body, and three members of the alumni Board of Overseers were charged with finding a new leader. James R. Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William...
With more than a decade of experience on the Corporation, Houghton was the only current member who had served on the committee that selected Summers in 2001. Though Keohane had spent little time at Harvard and had only been on the Corporation for two years, her broad-ranging knowledge of higher education quickly made her one of the most influential voices on the committee...
Even before Commencement 2006, Faust had quietly gained early support from some committee members who admired her deft handling of budget cuts and administrative overhauls as she established a research institute at the site that once housed Radcliffe College. Privately, Houghton praised Faust’s ability to calm concerned Radcliffe alumnae during the transition, according to two individuals who discussed the matter with Houghton last spring. Unlike Summers, who consistently attracted controversy throughout his five years as president, Faust had largely kept a low profile as she rebuilt Radcliffe...
...Before teaching, he worked for three years at Honeywell Information Systems, a division of Honeywell International. In 2001, he founded Liquid Machines, which sells digital rights management software to major corporations. The company’s clients include Corning, which was chaired by Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 until April of this year.Smith will step down as the chief scientist and chairman of Liquid Machines but will remain a member of board when he assumes the deanship, he said last night. Smith’s experience in the corporate world could give...
...This community is standing here with open arms, asking you to rush in and make some proposals,” Houghton said at the meeting...