Another desired professor was given an extra semester of paid leave in exchange for his continued employment. He turned Harvard down.
Even if Harvard is not prepared to counter such offers, such quandaries are not uncommon.
"Universities are no different in this sense from the commercial world-- where inviting a CEO from another company...is commonplace--or in any other competitive marketplace," Knowles says.
Star Salaries
On average, Harvard's salaries for senior Faculty members are among the top in the country. But the administration traditionally declines to offer big name professors higher salaries than their already-tenured Harvard colleagues.
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 says that because Harvard does not offer particularly high salaries to 'stars' in certain fields, they may lose some professors.
"Recruiting a senior person from another institution is difficult," he says. "But it's difficult everywhere. It takes longer here, and part of that is because Harvard is less willing to go to a kind of star system...we have very high quality across disciplines."
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