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Ford Professor of Social Sciences David Riesman '31, who is co-writing a book about university president searches, said that in the last two decades public advertising has become standard protocol in searches to fill top administrative posts...
...possible that the ads will turn up some viable candidates," Riesman said, explaining that although candidates might not apply directly, they might ask others to nominate them...
...retired Harvard sociologist David Riesman'31, a longtime student of higher education, saysthat naming overseers to the committee was a smarttactical move...
...useful caution, since the overseershave to approve the selection. It gives them asense of having a stake," says Riesman. "But inaddition to the legitimation function, there's anactual increase in the diversity...
...fact, Riesman says, one of the few thingsHarvard's recent presidents had in common was that"everyone had a mission beyond Harvard, both foreducation and for the country as a whole." Forboth Bok and Conant, that meant spearheadingefforts to reform the nation's secondary schools...