Word: rubins
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Never mind the “Bob Rubin Finishing School,” as his transformation at the Treasury was known among reporters at the time. Summers had come up in the political world as abrasive, and if you read the headlines, he hasn’t changed...
These same qualities, while lauded in Washington for their effectiveness, would prove irreconcilable with the working environment he’d later find at Harvard. Moreover, as Summers learned under Rubin, they wouldn’t even cut it at the Treasury...
...Summers was named undersecretary of the treasury for international affairs—a consolation prize, as Murray puts it, for losing out on the chairman post on the Council of Economic Advisors—where he worked under Rubin, a Washington veteran who had hired Summers as an economic adviser to Goldman Sachs many years earlier...
...think for most of us who covered him, there was a sense that when he moved to the Treasury with Bob Rubin, that he learned enormous amounts,” Murray recalls. “I think it’s kind of mystifying to those of us who watched him mature in Washington that he hadn’t just become acceptable, but really good...
...effort to scale Summers back, Rubin often ribbed him in front of reporters...