Word: sweeting
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...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...
...Though new to Harvard, Sweet is not unfamiliar with university finance, arriving on campus in 2008 after serving as executive vice president for administration and finance at Baylor College of Medicine. Sweet stepped into a redefined executive dean’s position that had previously been held on an interim basis. But he had barely enough time to adjust to his new office in University Hall before he had to add the fiscal fate of the Faculty to the top of his to-do list...
...about the 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...
...Carolyn Sweet remembers her son in his pre-Naval Academy years as a “curious” boy with a penchant for mathematics. Sweet, who graduated second in his high school class, was always a bit precocious for his peers: “I said, ‘Remember, you’ve got to have patience because things that come easy for you, don’t come easy for most of us,’” Carolyn Sweet recalls telling her son. Once in the Navy, the Sioux City, Iowa native served...