Larry Summers is hugely popular in India, China and other Asian nations, according to the International Herald Tribune.

It is going to be so interesting when Summers returns to Cambridge! He has done an impressive job of rebuilding his reputation everywhere outside 02138 (and, to some extent, inside it). He goes to Davos, to the Aspen Institute, to Washington—all places that play to his strengths. His column in the FT seems to be well-liked. He may or may not be writing a book.

I can’t help but think that his presence at Harvard is going to be tricky for Drew Faust, who has many merits of her own but can not match Summers in terms of ability to make news and sheer intellectual firepower.