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First, in considering any newly designated executive, it helps to consider leadership in general. A leader is a person, usually in an assigned role, who is expected to provide direction for an organization or polity. At a minimum, a leader must be able to manage her institution, making sure that its constituent entities function well and synergistically; if management is not the leader’s strong card, she must be able to select strong managers, work with them, and give them considerable autonomy...
...minds. The new president cannot dwell on the Summers regime nor can she afford to ignore its lessons—manifold and controversial as they may be. President-designate Faust must build on her impressive achievements in her earlier roles and on her reputation as a person who is civil, fair-minded, and of unquestioned integrity. At the same time, she must constantly keep in mind that Harvard University is neither The University of Pennsylvania nor Radcliffe and that serving as President is not the same as serving as professor, department chair, or dean...
...closes for a 6 to 8-month rennovation on March 19th, instead of making the trek to alternative venues such as Hemenway Gymnasium or Blodgett Pool, Steplyk said, “I wouldn’t recommend it.” But Langer says that if a person truly believes what he or she is doing is exercise, the benefits will ensue, even if that exercise consists of lifting a remote control while sitting on a couch. “If people can fully persuade themselves that what they’re doing is exercise, this effect will work...
Institutionally, Harvard’s president is the person best able to direct overarching changes and interdisciplinary initiatives, such as the nascent Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Such projects can require the president to act as a mediator between often-tribal faculty departments, bringing together, for example, scientists and philosophers to tackle the academic riddles of the future. Past presidents, from Lawrence H. Summers to Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, have adopted a confrontational management style, attempting to force through initiatives with a blunt stick. If we, as observers of Harvard University, learned anything from the rapid downfall of former...
...person most Americans have never heard of, Doug Feith has been called terrible names by very important people. In Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward quotes General Tommy Franks - appalled at the quality of intelligence about Iraq - railing that Feith, then the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, was "the f---king stupidest guy on the face of the earth." Today, there was another bad review. Feith got publicly slapped by the Defense Department's inspector general for developing pro-war intelligence on Iraq - outside of official channels - that now seems plainly wrong. The IG concludes that Feith's office...