"Many times faculty members say coming here puts them in the limelight, even more than at Princeton or Stanford," Thompson says. "[There are] more invitations, more media want to talk to them. You've got the stamp of approval because you're at Harvard."
Faculty members also find the University name can bring demands from odd quarters.
The Clinton impeachment, for instance, thrust many Harvard professors into the forefront of the national discourse.
"When the impeachment thing happened people called from the remotest corners of this country wanting to know about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson," says Beckert, who specializes in American history.
According to Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, the professors who take on the most outside of Harvard are often the same people most engaged within Harvard's gates.
"It isn't a question of outside versus inside, it's simply an issue of the drain on our most energetic faculty," Knowles wrote in an e-mail message.
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