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...waited to cross Quincy Street yesterday evening, the chairman of the presidential search committee, James R. Houghton ’58, said that he had “no update” on the hunt for Harvard’s 28th leader. The search panel was in Cambridge this weekend for a joint session with alumni overseers, who must approve the committee’s choice before a president can be appointed. In recent days, the search committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the post. When asked if he had met with Faust...
...James R. Houghton ’58, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, has announced that he will relinquish his position on a major corporate board. Houghton revealed last week that he will resign in late April as non-executive chairman of Corning Incorporated’s Board of Directors. Houghton, who is also the chairman of the search committee charged with choosing Harvard’s 28th president, has worked at the research and technology company for almost four decades. He joined the Harvard Corporation seven months before retiring as chair and CEO of Corning in 1996. However, financial...
...don’t talk about meetings. Meetings are private,” said James R. Houghton ’58, the chairman of the committee...
...been really well orchestrated.” And real estate investor Kenneth G. Bartels ’73 says he “was rather impressed” by the search committee’s outreach effort after he attended a dinner in New York organized by Houghton and search committee member Frances D. Fergusson, a member of the Board of Overseers and a former Vassar College president...
...give that search committee of Mr. Houghton a lot of credit for bringing somebody in that could really shake the place up,” Merck says, alluding to Houghton’s role on the panel that picked Summers. “The big thing is that they shook the cage and things are starting to move...