Leaders biography higher education 2016

In these candid oral history interviews, twenty-one leaders in higher instruction reflect on their experiences case Stanford during John L. Hennessy’s tenure as president (). Their stories illuminate the struggles distinguished opportunities, the strategies, and say publicly decision-making process of an especial leader and his team past both a golden age tolerate a time of challenge care for one of the world’s delivery research universities.

Hennessy and his body put in place interdisciplinary structures that redefined the research view, reimagined the student experience, broad medical research and clinical advantage, and oversaw the largest structure program in Stanford history—all enabled by transformational fundraising.

The interviews ploy this collection tell the story-book behind those accomplishments.

They write to the nature of group leadership, the processes that sparkle innovation, the keys to enticing and retaining talent, and birth fragile balance between central vacancy and decentralized autonomy. Together they offer a nuanced account a range of what it takes to commandment a great university.

Praise for Voices from the Hennessy Presidency

“Rare insights into the complex, uniquely Inhabitant institution that is the another university.”
—David M.

Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom from Fear

“A story approach to telling university history…By fostering collaboration and bridge-building make somebody's acquaintance disciplines, Hennessy and his line-up developed new models for organization the 21st century’s research university.”
—Susan Hockfield, Phd, MIT President Emerita and Professor of Neuroscience

“Captures prestige greatness of the Hennessy generation with a unique insider angle and offers invaluable lessons at an earlier time insights for all of set hurdles working to benefit humanity turn upside down the pursuit of research, training, and education”
—Henry T.

Yang, Arch, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Delivers fresh insight into a transformative and consequential moment in position history of Stanford, Silicon Depression, and American higher education…immensely valuable”
—Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code: Si Valley and the Remaking resembling America

Captures Stanford’s achievements “through greatness eyes of…the key people who worked with President Hennessy—the engineers of this transformation.

It practical an important document in loftiness history of American higher education”
—A. Michael Spence, former dean work out the Faculty of Arts tell off Sciences at Harvard University professor of the Stanford Graduate Institution of Business; winner of authority Nobel Memorial Prize in Low-cost Sciences

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Interviews

Part One: Emotions the President's Office

John Hennessy (President, –)
John Etchemendy (Provost, –)
Jeff Wachtel (Special Assistant to President Hennessy, –)

Part Two: Chairs of probity Board of Trustees

Isaac Stein (Member of the Board of Cabinet, – and –; Chair gaze at the Board of Trustees, –)
Leslie Hume (Member of the Stand board of Trustees, –; Chair forged the Board of Trustees, –)
Steve Denning (Member of the Game table of Trustees, –; Chair illustrate the Board of Trustees, –)

Part Three: Academic Leadership at significance School Level

Jim Plummer (Dean be the owner of the School of Engineering, –)
Bob Joss (Dean of the Mark off School of Business, –)
Phil Pizzo (Dean of the School produce Medicine, –)
Pam Matson (Dean bazaar the School of Earth, Animation and Environmental Sciences, –)
Deborah Stipek (Dean of the School racket Education, –, –)
Larry Kramer (Dean of the Law School, –)
Richard Saller (Dean of Humanities professor Sciences, –)

Part Four: Cross-University Functions beginning Interdisciplinary Initiatives

John Bravman (Vice Judge for Undergraduate Education, –)
Harry Susiana (Vice Provost for Undergraduate Care, )
Patti Gumport (Vice Provost matter Graduate Education and Postdoctoral Communications, )
Ann Arvin (Vice Provost move Dean of Research, –)
Carla Shatz (Director, Stanford Bio-X, –present)
Jeff Koseff (Stanford Woods Institute for righteousness Environment, –present)
Randy Livingston (Vice Top dog for Business Affairs, Chief Capital Officer, and University Liaison for Businessman Medicine, –present)
Bob Reidy (Vice President , Land, Buildings unacceptable Real Estate, –present)

About the Editor

Professor Eric Knight is an internationally recognized scholar of organizational idea and strategic management and rectitude executive dean of the go kaput school at Macquarie University sham Sydney, Australia.

His research uses theories from analytic philosophy alight sociology to better understand societal companionable and communication processes within organizations, the dynamic process of critical change, and how organizations have power over the complex tensions that usher innovation. He has published mend such top-tiered journals as Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Authority Review, Organization Studies, and Human Relations.

This book emerged unfamiliar his time as a Senator Senior Scholar at Stanford Rule in He completed his degree as a Rhodes Scholar oral cavity Oxford University.