Word: hyman
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...initiative’s director was Hyman himself, then an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, who would pledge to emphasize “reviewing and getting a handle on interfaculty initiatives” when he became provost six years later...
...Hyman was not alone. The 1990s were a coming out party for all things interdisciplinary at Harvard, as former University President Neil L. Rudenstine was tasked by the University’s highest governing body with uniting Harvard’s disparate elements...
...despite the new focus, Hyman found that the fortunes of the MBB initiative were subject to the whims of deans intent on prioritizing their own agendas who chafed at the notion of acquiescing to the desires of the center...
...Many cross-faculty initiatives were really owned by the center and therefore got ambivalent support from the schools because they were drawing away school faculty time and effort,” Hyman said last week. “One just had the feeling that we got wonderful support from Neil Rudenstine and everything else felt challenging...
...Smith insists on saying “One University” instead of “centralization,” while Hyman makes heavy use of corporate speak, frequently employing the term “stakeholders” and referring to himself as a “convener”—language that is shared by his increasingly populous office...