Harvard’s President on Leading During a Time of Change

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🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Drew Gilpin Faust, the president of Harvard University, talks about leading the institution through a decade of change, from the financial crisis to the Trump era. Faust discusses how communicating as a leader is different from communicating as an expert, the surprising ways her study of U.S. Civil War history prepared her for the top job, and what it's like to be the first female president in the University's four-century history.

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0:17.0	And thanks for listening. Welcome to the HBRIDIA cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. For 371 years, men held the highest office at Harvard University.
0:54.2	But in 2007, that changed.
0:56.8	Drew Gilpin Faust became the first female president of Harvard.
1:00.6	But to her, her leadership wasn't about gender equity.
1:03.0	I'm not the woman president of Harvard, she said at the news conference announcing her
1:06.9	promotion.
1:07.9	I'm the president of Harvard.
1:09.2	Over the past 11 years, housed has guided the university through a lot of change,
1:15.0	from leading through the financial crisis to increasing student diversity, to expanding financial
1:19.6	aid and advocating for undocumented students.
1:22.4	And with time, she also came to view her role as a female leader a little differently.
1:26.8	I sat down with her in her office to talk about that and more. Drew, thank you so much for sitting down with us. It's a pleasure. Thank you for
1:36.0	asking me. Yeah. In 2007 when you became president, a lot of media attention
1:42.0	focused on you being the first female president of Harvard.
1:46.5	What was it like to break that glass ceiling?
1:49.9	What was it like to break that glass ceiling? I grew up in higher education and entered the academic world at a time when
1:58.0	doors were opening for women and I often had been the first to do this or that.
2:04.0	So it didn't seem entirely surprising in the sense that I recognize that I was part of a wave of change.
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