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...Having gone through rehab after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the region's financial institutions went into the current Great Recession with robust balance sheets that they can now leverage up by acquiring the assets that Western banks are shedding. China's banks are in a particularly sweet spot. Grown fat on years of sizzling GDP growth, Bank of China (2008 profit: $9.7 billion) has a leverage ratio of only...
...leaders of the union, Jaeger meets regularly with FAS Dean for Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet and Associate Dean for Administrative Resources Geoffrey Peters. HUCTW leaders have also cultivated access to mid-level deans like FAS Administrative Dean for Science Russ Porter and FAS Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities Sara Oseasohn, Jaeger says...
...projected era of dramatic restructuring, Smith, FAS Dean for Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet, and Harvard Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82 have yet to fully define what this means for the Faculty. And mounting uncertainty over the past year has unnerved them...
...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...