Harvard Taps Longtime DEI Advocate To Help Pick University’s Next President

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Harvard Taps Longtime DEI Advocate To Help Pick University’s Next President

Harvard University on Monday tapped an ex-McKinsey consultant who has criticized meritocracy and published controversial research on the benefits of diversity in business to help select the university’s next president. Vivian Hunt, who in 2015 co-authored McKinsey’s influential paper, "Why diversity matters," has been appointed to lead the Harvard Board of Overseers, the head of which has historically sat on Harvard’s presidential search committ…