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Even after Bob Rubin??s grooming, University President Lawrence H. Summers’ rough edges grate his contemporaries. The latest Summers brouhaha—courtesy of a hostile Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting on Tuesday—is the same old story told and retold in The New York Times since Summers took over the Treasury. He’s gruff, sartorially sloppy, colleagues consider him aggressive, even arrogant. Also, he’s brilliant—one of the sharpest minds in President Clinton’s cabinet. He’s a potential Nobel laureate...
...Rubin ’60, Summers’ former boss and predecessor at the U.S. Treasury, was an instrumental supporter of his bid for the Harvard presidency. And Robert D. Reischauer ’63, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, was also a colleague of Summers and Rubin??s in Washington...
...Rubin??s method has been applied to numerous fields, including economics, law, education and medicine...
...Rubin??s theoretical approach to statistics is unique in its rejection of the abstract. “I like working on theory and conceptual developments in statistics and I like seeing those ideas applied to actual problems,” Rubin says...
...people who were confused about how to think about effects a framework in which to consider them. Elizabeth Stuart, a graduate student under Rubin and a Teaching Fellow for his Quantative Reasoning 33 core, “Causal Inference,” attests to the flexibility of Rubin??s work. “Now [Rubin??s Model] is the standard for thinking about causal effects in economics...