Word: provost
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...building consensus so that things get done while not becoming so bogged down in meetings and ego-stroking that nothing gets done at all.Although Faust has maintained a low profile in the past few months, her first steps have been in the right direction. Most visibly, she kept Provost Steven E. Hyman in place. Hyman is one of the longest-serving members of the central administration and will bring needed institutional memory and science expertise with him. He has also played a critical role in expanding interdisciplinary science research and conducting academic planning in Allston. It would have been easy...
...This was not a principle objective—to establish learning [centers] that would be mini Harvards,” says Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, who was Harvard’s provost when the University began contemplating international centers in the late 1990s...
...personally very comfortable in envisaging that there would be offices of different types,” says Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez. “There would be no attempt of having a simple cookie cutter of saying they have to be all alike...
Building on a series of reforms that began two years ago, a University-wide committee recently completed a comprehensive review of the policies that govern how scientists here patent their research. Provost Steven E. Hyman says the current policies are “outdated...
...tech transfer field, Harvard’s hopes rest on the shoulders of Senior Associate Provost Isaac T. Kohlberg, who arrived here in 2005. Before that, Kohlberg led tech transfer efforts at Tel Aviv University and at New York University School of Medicine. In that last post, he commanded a salary of nearly $1.3 million, making him the highest-paid administrator in academia, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education...