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...first job with the NEC, he had a great background and was a coordinator of a lot of different people with a lot of different backgrounds,” Siewert says. “He took an institution that never existed before to treat international economic matters in the same way we treat national security matters...
...Their personalities really seemed to complement each other,” says Aida Alvarez, a former member of the Harvard Board of Overseers who was instrumental in selecting Summers as president and worked with Rubin on a small business mentorship program. “Larry had a more academic background and [Rubin] had a more business background,” she says...
...fall, Stone said the ideal candidate had to have “a science background or, enough of a background in science, to know how important it is to really push forward in that area.” The comment seemed to favor Fineberg, the University and science veteran. To solicit ideas and suggestions, Stone also sent a letter to 300,000 Harvard alumni, faculty, and staff. In it, Stone asked for “your thoughts on the personal and professional qualities it will be most important to seek in a new president, as well as your observations...
Cleary, who won All-America honors during his Harvard hockey career and who coached the Crimsons 1989 NCAA championship team, is said to favor someone with a background in Division I athletics...
...fact, conscious of gender and race distinctions. People intrinsically check and re-check their prose for language that stigmatizes, divides or labels. On listservs and on campus, in our daily log and in the newsroom, editors carefully weigh the effects, sources and content of the news coverage against a background of pitched emotion. They know that perception matters at Harvard...