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...Faced with an endowment in free fall in late October, he arranged a meeting with former FAS Dean Henry Rosovsky, who had once weathered a recession of his own at the FAS helm. Smith brought one person with...
...Brett C. Sweet remains unknown to many professors and staff, but the FAS dean for administration and finance has gained attention in tandem with the increasing fiscal pressures. Smith first called attention to his financial guru at the November Faculty meeting: he had asked “Brett Sweet and others” to research Harvard’s coping mechanisms during past recessions. In a rare moment of uncertainty at the next meeting, Smith stopped mid-thought to double-check a fact with Sweet, who sat on the sidelines. “Yes,” Sweet quietly affirmed...
...While department heads scrambled to draft proposals for 15 percent cuts in their budgets in accordance with a December directive from Smith, the former cryptographic researcher emerged from the frenzy of the financial uncertainty as the “point person,” the man tasked with setting fiscal policies to close a gaping deficit. Sweet—who often flanks Smith in various meetings with FAS administrative deans—knows the numbers well enough to tell units how particular proposals for budget cuts will save, or perhaps even cost money...
...impact,” says Robert G. Doyle, FAS Associate Dean, who sends the budgets for the five administrative units under his purview directly to Sweet. “Brett Sweet is concerned about the impact of the reductions that he and others recommend, but it is Mike Smith who is the bottom line...
...Since Smith warned the Faculty of severe budget reductions, Sweet has been advising the individual departments and centers through the budget planning process by providing guidance in line with fiscal recommendations from central administration, according to Brandt...