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Green says he suspended his career as an economist to become provost because he thought his main duty would be to engineer the University-wide activities Rudenstine at the time talked of creating...
Drawing on his experience at Princeton, one of Rudenstine's first actions was to give the central administration more muscle and relevance in coordinating University activities by recreating the position of provost--a central administrative authority just below the president which had been vacant for 50 years...
Today at Harvard, the provost's jurisdiction changes frequently, according to Rudenstine's needs. In general, Provost Albert Carnesale focuses on administrative and interfaculty issues. The provost has at times been asked to deal with fund-raising, lobbying in Washington, labor negotiations and information technology improvements...
When Rudenstine appointed Green to the newly-created provost position in 1991, he could not have envisioned that Green would resign abruptly and mysteriously in April 1994, just as the capital campaign was about to launch...
When Green stepped down in April 1994, Rudenstine chose then-dean of the Kennedy School Carnesale as the next provost. Carnesale would later act as president during Rudenstine's 1994-95 leave of absence...