# Process & Administrative Transformation at Harvard ## expand\_more ![View of Weeks Footbridge from bank of the Charles River](/sites/g/files/omnuum12041/files/2025-11/032123_Features_KS_251.jpg) “*Our strength as a university lies not only in the excellence of our scholarship but in the effectiveness of the systems that support it. By coming together to examine how we work, we can uncover opportunities to simplify, modernize, and collaborate in ways that best support the University’s core mission*.” \- Meredith Weenick, Executive Vice President ## **Process and Administrative Transformation at Harvard (PATH)** Executive Vice President Meredith Weenick has assembled a volunteer group of Administrative Deans, along with University CFO and several subject matter experts, and tasked them with pursuing opportunities to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness, and services that generate meaningful cost savings. This cross-University task force is focused on identifying opportunities for greater collaboration and operational improvements across the University. This Fall, PATH formally launched its beta phase, focusing on supporting a number of efficiency and cost savings projects getting underway or already in flight across various schools and units. PATH’s focus is on information sharing and providing direct support to project teams to help remove constraints that can prevent streamlined, cross-school and cross-unit engagement. The goals are multi-faceted as we want to undertake necessary process improvements in the way we work, in order to help reduce costs smartly where we can, to streamline our operations while maintaining, if not improving service levels. ## **PATH Purpose Statement** With sponsorship of the Executive Vice President, act as a central Harvard hub in pursuit of opportunities to improve operational efficiency, effectiveness, and service that generate meaningful cost savings. ## [**PATH FAQs** ](https://hu.sharepoint.com/:b:/r/sites/PATHWEBDOCS/Shared%20Documents/FAQ/PATH_Champion%20Launch%20FAQ%20Doc_Nov%202025.pdf?csf=1&web=1&e=TfEars) ## **PATH Task Force Members** Sort***Tim Bowman*** Dean for Administration and Finance, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences ***Jack Jennings*** Executive Dean for Administration, Graduate School of Education ***Mary Ann Bradley*** Associate Dean for Administrative Operations, FAS ***Ritu Kalra*** Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance ***Jen Dilts*** Assistant Vice President of Finance, Office of Financial Strategy and Planning ***Josh McIntosh*** Executive Dean, Harvard Kennedy School ***Fritz Foley*** André R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration ***Lisa Muto*** Executive Dean for Administration, Harvard Medical School ***Katherine Gates*** Chief of Staff to the FAS Dean of Administration and Finance ***L. Tracee Whitley*** **(PATH Chair)** Dean for Administration, Harvard Law School ***Mark Goble*** Administrative Dean, Graduate School of Design PATH Task Force Staff - ***Danielle Frankel,*** Senior Organization Development Consultant and Executive Coach, Center for Workplace Development, HHR - ***Sarah Madden,*** Chief of Staff to Executive Vice President - ***Emily Vetter,*** Project Manager, Central Project Management Office ## **How to Reach Us** You can reach the PATH Task Force by emailing . Please email with any questions or feedback ## **Share Ideas or Notice of Ongoing Projects** As we move through this early phase of work, we continue to gather ideas and share information about projects across multiple schools or units. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with suggestions or to share information about work already underway via [PATH's Submission Form](https://icommons-tools.tlt.harvard.edu/qualtrics_taker_auth/?qtarget=aHR0cHM6Ly9oYXJ2YXJkLmF6MS5xdWFsdHJpY3MuY29tL2pmZS9mb3JtL1NWXzl2bjRyVU9VeWNQVW9aMA==). ---