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While at other schools the provost role is fairly well defined and static, this is not the case at Harvard...
Until Rudenstine arrived there had been no provost at Harvard for over 40 years. At other, far more centralized universities, the provost position had developed into a chief operating officer with budgetary control over the faculties—a “Mr. Inside” to the outwardly focused presidents...
Given Harvard’s decentralized structure—deans control their own budgets, do their own planning and jealously guard their empires—the role of the provost at the University was unclear when Rudenstine first raised the idea of resurrecting the post...
Observers say Rudenstine created the provost position with his experience at Princeton in mind. Rudenstine had been provost to then-Princeton President William Bowen and he played the type of inwardly focused role that more unified Princeton allowed...
...difference is that there is a natural number-two person at Harvard—the dean of FAS,” says Dale W. Jorgenson, Abbe professor of economics. “It took a little while for the provost to be defined in this context,” he says...