Word: oversight
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Jack R. Meyer, president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), will leave his post today, ending his 15-year oversight of a University endowment that has seen record returns under his leadership—but no replacement is waiting in the wings...
...part of that expanded oversight, FEMA is sending some 30 auditors to the Gulf to follow the money. Not to be outdone, Congress has its own team of 24 investigators hot on the FEMA auditors' heels. But unless the President appoints an independent czar to oversee the entire reconstruction operation, Democrats and Republicans alike fear it may be as poorly managed as the initial response to the storm. FEMA's track record before Katrina isn't too encouraging: during last year's $2 billion cleanup of Hurricane Frances, millions of relief dollars ended up in the hands of residents...
...Kennedy School affiliate involved with the center’s oversight, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Summers has antagonized some of the center’s faculty associates. “I think it’s a blessing and a curse that Larry considers himself a development expert,” the Kennedy School source said. “He doesn’t seem willing to let go of this, delegate it to someone else. Nor does he seem able to devote the necessary time and effort to the center...
...also pointed out that there were precautions in the rules and bylaws in place to check the HCC in its selection, including the ability of the executive board to remove officers from the HCC. Glazer also noted that the UC had oversight of the HCC’s selection because their bodies are intertwined...
...Clayton Spencer, a veteran Massachussetts Hall staffer from the days of Neil L. Rudenstein, has been promoted to vice president for policy, where she will assume broad oversight of Summers’ administration in a position that has never previously existed...