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...advisory role turned out to be ill-fated. Shleifer and his wife, hedge fund manager Nancy Zimmerman, made investments in the Russian economy even as he advised the government on economic reform. The conflict of interest would lead to a federal lawsuit against Shleifer, one of his associates, and Harvard, resulting in a $26 million fine against the University and $2 million penalties apiece for Shleifer and the associate. When the dust settled, the University stripped Shleifer of his endowed chair—but not tenure—and the furor contributed to the ouster of Summers from the Harvard...
...Bok’s announcement comes after the idea of calendar reform was endorsed by the University’s deans and Undergraduate Council (UC) leaders this spring...
...explained his decision not to submit changes to a vote by describing calendar reform as “a University-wide question which affects everyone at the University and not a single Faculty alone...
...said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the completion of the general education portion of the undergraduate curricular review...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda Skocpol said in a phone interview on Saturday that calendar reform could benefit both graduates and undergraduates...