In 1996, she was offered the presidency of the Disney Channel.
"I spent a couple of weeks doing nothing but watching it," she says. "I wanted to do television for families. I didn't think it had been done before."
Sweeney's management philosophy seems to fit with Harvard's famously decentralized structure.
"The team sets the goals. Then I give people a lot of autonomy. I believe they should run their departments the way they would run their own businesses," she says.
Retired GSE Professor Gerald S. Lesser worked with Sweeney while she was at Harvard.
"She took three of her eight courses with me and she was an ideal student," he said. "In her own quiet determined way she has taken a really leading position in the field of media directed toward children... I don't think we've had that much representation of children on the Board of Overseers."
Sweeney views learning as a life-long task.
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