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...evident that the memory of Quincy House seniors has become quite cloudy. Certainly, I believe that Interim Quincy House Masters Lee and Deborah J. Gehrke have done a superb job this year and I am quite pleased to spend my last year at Harvard with them. But I must say that it does a great injustice to Quincy House Masters Robert P. Kirshner ’70 and Jayne Loader—who are on sabatical this year—to selectively contrast very specific qualities of theirs with those of the Gehrkes, and quite frankly, I believe...
...managed a division at PPG Industries, the big Pittsburgh, Pa., glass and chemical company. He joined her at Meridian in the post-9/11 press of business to provide management expertise. She works with lenders to buy a company time and cash. Then Von Lehman steps in as interim manager. "I move in while the company's still on life support," he says. As an industry, these experts number at least 7,700, according to the membership rolls of the Turnaround Management Association. Top performers can earn $950 an hour, plus stock and other bonuses...
...Columbus by replacing the New York City sales office with a showroom and shuttering the San Antonio operations center. The plan also called for eliminating swaths of management, including 13 of 23 vice presidents. The CEO balked, but the board bucked its leader and asked Von Lehman to become interim...
...ongoing search for new Currier House masters, for example, students and tutors should be fully invested in the selection process. Although the Currier vacancy opened up on shorter notice than usual and interim masters will likely be named, the bulk of decision-making should not be left to administrators in University Hall. Their distance from and relative ignorance of a House’s particular community renders them woefully under-qualified to unilaterally name a master...
...students, weighing whether the masters have fulfilled their duties to the House effectively. Evaluation should also be more regular. Providing feedback every five years when a master’s renewable term is up does a significant disservice to those students whose lives could be made better in the interim...