March 17, 2006

Why Harvard Is So Hard to Lead

By WARREN BENNIS and HALLUM MOVIUS

It is all too easy to blame Larry Summers, who resigned last month as president of Harvard University, for his failed leadership of the nation's most prestigious university. Summers became a large target whose serial gaffes kept him in the media spotlight, certainly to his own if not the university's detriment.

But it would be a mistake to see Summers's failed presidency solely in terms of his perceived arrogance and divisive tendency to speak his mind. By focusing all our attention on

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