Hiring Bytes

Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has hired 13 new faculty members for the fall semester, the Washington Business Journal reports. See a university press release for details.
Edward Forst, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. manager who joined Harvard University in September as executive vice president will leave on August 1 to return to Wall Street after less than a year in charge of the university’s finances, the Associated Press reports.
Harold L. Martin, vice president for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina system and a former chancellor of Winston-Salem State University, was appointed chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University last Friday by the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, the AP reports.
Drexel University is preparing to launch a national presidential search for a successor to the late Constantine Papadakis, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Papadakis, who had lung cancer, died of pulmonary complications in April.
Garth Saloner, an economics professor at Stanford University and director of its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, will become dean of the university’s Graduate School of Business on September 1, 2009, the AP reports.
Kofi Annan, a former United Nations Secretary-General and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001, is taking up a new appointment as a Columbia University fellow. See a university press release for details.