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...Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor of the Boston Federal Reserve Building, is adorned with little more than a few family photographs, three flat-panel monitors sitting atop her desk, and a comfortable view of Boston Harbor.But beneath her unobtrusive exterior, Mendillo, CEO of Harvard Management Company, harbors a wealth of investment knowledge. She commands the respect of colleagues at Harvard and elsewhere, who laud her unceasing composure during a sudden and unanticipated financial meltdown, her decisiveness under time constraints, and her focus on long...
...which she has had to bring all constituents—faculty, students, staff, and alumni—to a common understanding of the state of the University.In response, donors have expressed warm support for Faust’s leadership in the face of extreme financial pressure, praising what they view as her transparent and cautious approach in identifying University priorities.“She’s very forthright, unadorned, and not one to gild the lily,” says Peter J. Solomon ’60, the founder of the New York-based Peter J. Solomon investment bank...
...addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership...
...thoughtful and witty” instructor. “He was very interested in challenging students to think a little harder about the material,” Zelikow said. “He was less interested in selling a point of view than getting you to think.”Both Iriye and Zelikow later joined Harvard’s History department and co-taught classes with May. Iriye said that as a colleague, he was “not pompous” and treated him more like a younger brother than a junior faculty member.As a noted foreign policy...
...History department’s director of undergraduate studies, Daniel L. Smail, suggesting that it will be the work of the last two years, culminating next fall, that will be of most consequence for the new curriculum, and not its theoretical conception. “If you take my view, it’s the practice that matters—not the legislation,” Smail says. “Curricular reforms are never going to create happy faculty or happy students, but we’ll find a way to make it work.” Other faculty...