Is the Summers-Rubin Era Finally Over?
Posted on October 30th, 2013 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
Ever since withdrawing his name from consideration for the post of Fed chair, Larry Summers has kept a low profile (my guess: he’s back on the consulting/speaking money trail).
Now Harvard announces a Corporation “transition”: Bob Rubin, Summers mentor and inexplicably influential financier, will be stepping down from the Harvard Corporation.
Feels like the end of an era, no?
3 Responses
10/31/2013 9:22 pm
probably the best sign that it’s over is that no one has bothered to comment in the last 36 hours
11/1/2024 4:14 pm
Howard, no one responded because we were all furiously writing letters of recommendation. About those, see RB’s entry above on the decline of the humanities.
11/3/2024 6:34 am
Somehow I wish there were more commentary about this watershed….it really is of significance, and seems like the Harvard community ought to talk a bit about what his exit—and more importantly, his tenure—means/meant.