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...Thus far, Faust has played a seemingly hands-off role as an administrator, relying heavily on departing Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82—a former Goldman Sachs executive who served as Faust’s right-hand man in a post that she created. For the most part, she has continued to allow the deans of Harvard’s twelve different schools to make policy decisions on their own—reverting to Harvard’s age-old decentralized philosophy of “every tub on its own bottom...
Katherine N. Lapp, executive vice president for business operations at the University of California, has been appointed to oversee Harvard's human resources, finances, and administration as executive vice president beginning in early October, University officials announced Thursday...
First, if a tsunami of private-equity players and REITs jump into the sector, competition for assets will heat up, which could drive prices up. If this happens, potential profits will shrink, says Tom Fink, senior vice president of Trepp LLC, a commercial-mortgage-research firm...
...will encourage patients to express their own preferences rather than leave doctors and family members to guess what they want once they're no longer able to say so themselves. There are only about 7,500 geriatricians in the U.S., and one of them is Dr. Laurie Jacobs, vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. Jacobs, who has been a practicing geriatrician since 1988, talked to TIME about why end-of-life counseling is important, when it should start and how to talk to patients...
...Iran DISSIDENTS ON TRIAL Days before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term on Aug. 5, Iran held a mass trial of more than 100 people (above), including a former Vice President and a Newsweek reporter, charging them with rioting, conspiring with foreign powers and trying to foment a revolution after the nation's June elections. Iran claims that many defendants admitted guilt, but critics say that the confessions were forced and that the trial is an attempt to quash the inevitable protests surrounding Ahmadinejad's swearing...