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...professors—a group of Law School and Business School experts on corporate governance??argue in a letter sent to the SEC in mid-August that any proposal to increase shareholders’ influence on board member selection needs to be more restrictive. They wrote that speculators and raiders—the kind epitomized by “Wall Street’s” Gordon Gekko—have little long-term interest in a given company and may sacrifice long-term viability for short-term profits...
Harvard’s Graduate Student Council, the governing student body of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, organized and led the weekend-long conference—known as the Ivy Summit on Graduate Student Governance??which highlighted concerns shared among the graduate schools...
...departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Kennedy School of Government, the Business School, and, of course, the Education School. The same goes for many other topics in the social sciences—from urban studies to racial discrimination, inequality to immigration, and health policy to corporate governance??that draw into the mix several other schools, including the Law School, the Design School, and the School of Public Health. The potential for synergies and interdisciplinary research across these rarely-traversed boundaries boggles the mind. Hence our elation that University President Drew G. Faust has decided...
...down the details of her job description. She has used her outsider’s perspective—she is the only Corporation member without a Harvard degree—and the tumultuous events of her tenure as an opportunity to parse Harvard’s system of governance??to learn its ins and outs, and how to best navigate it. In the process, say friends and colleagues, she has become a quiet leader of Harvard’s most powerful governing body...
...then-Dean of the College John B. Fox, Jr. ’59 to appoint a group of undergraduates and faculty to investigate the state of student governance at the College. Meeting 12 times in the 10 months following its foundation in May 1980, the Committee to Review College Governance??more commonly known as the Dowling committee, after Committee Chairman and Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling ’57—issued its report in March of 1981. Among the recommendations was the creation of a centralized, representative, funded body for student government. The seed...