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...about the upcoming renovations.“I don’t know anything about them—that’s the problem,” Guidotti said resignedly in an interview last week. “There’s nothing you can say. You can discuss things when one’s opinion is asked before a decision is made. Once the decision is made, what’s the point of talking?”Faust first announced her decision to slow construction of the Allston Science Complex in February, citing financial difficulties caused...
...Harvard’s advantage.“The time period in which we’re going to see improvement in the world economies, financial markets, and endowment performance is very much an unknown,” Mendillo says. “But we know that eventually things will improve, and the way we have the portfolio positioned—the set of strategies, the mix of investments—we know that we’ll benefit from that improvement.”LURED TO FINANCESeated in her office beside HMC’s expansive main trading floor...
...students and colleagues, regardless of their age or position.“As far as I know, there is not a single person who knows him who would be considered his enemy,” Zelikow said, “and that’s a rare thing.”—Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...President is interested in someone with a long-term vision, it’s not clear to me that he does have that,” Tushnet says. “It’s not clear that that is an important consideration, but if it is an important thing, then it’s an obstacle...
...have some pretty extraordinary events in the economy,” says Joshua D. Coval, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. “It’s pretty easy to second-guess these decisions...but basically, I think all of those were reasonable things to do in normal or even mildly unusual circumstances.”John P. Huchra, former vice provost for research policy, cites bad luck as the source of Harvard’s current fiscal quagmire. “It was an aggressive but a reasonably sound plan,” Huchra says...