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Inside Harvard, the committee most seriously considered two candidates in addition to Faust: Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. Summers had appointed both. When Corporation members scrambled to find a replacement for Summers after his abrupt resignation last year, they passed over Hyman, whom many considered a natural candidate for the job, in favor of Derek C. Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991. The provost had a reputation for being overly talkative about sensitive topics, and some committee members had doubts about his ability to tackle large-scale projects, according...
...Kagan had managed to push through a major curricular review and enjoyed significant popularity among students and faculty during her three years as dean, but committee members thought her management style might come to echo the brashness of the Summers era, the two sources said. She was also perceived as lacking the intellectual breadth and depth that would be needed to earn her the respect of humanists and scientists alike in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, according to the sources...
...Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon said that there was strong support for his appointment. “No controversy,” he said. “Everyone was just delighted.” In a statement released Wednesday, Law School Dean Elena Kagan called Sitkoff the “future of the field,” and deemed him a “worthy heir to the great Harvard tradition” of legal scholarship. “Rob Sitkoff is doing the most exciting and important academic work in trust and estates that anyone...
...micromanager,” Kagan said, noting that Martin did not use the new funds to increase the collections budget because he felt that spending in other areas was more important...
...Kagan emphasized that this is a case where a department did not receive as much money as it had requested, saying, “I could show you ten departments that didn’t get all the money they wanted...