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...turn of events Summers could not have foreseen at his installation in 2001. Indeed, he thought he was coming to Harvard freshly reformed. His five years at the Treasury were like a term at reform school for Summers, where Robert E. Rubin ’60, his predecessor at the helm of the department, trained him in the art of diplomacy. Rubin, known among reporters as an impeccably polished leader, taught Summers how to watch his mouth, treat people with sensitivity, and approach potential controversy with caution. Never again would Summers allow himself to be caught with his name next...
...Donald B. Rubin, John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics...
...worth noting here that Harvard’s higher leadership was utterly absent during this building conflict. In an interview with The New York Times last month, Robert E. Rubin ’60, a member of the Corporation that appoints Harvard’s president, professed no knowledge of Summers’ troubles with the faculty. This oversight is inexcusable. In the future, the Corporation must take a more active role in ensuring that the president actually functions within the university. It seems likely that corrective action from the Corporation at an early period could have headed off this...
Robert E. 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...
...overseers, I would say, where are you when we need you?” Mendelsohn said rhetorically, singling out Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60. Rubin told the New York Times in January that Summers was an “oustanding president,” adding that he did not know of any faculty discontent with Summers’ management style...