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...Analysis 10, “The Principles of Economics,” Summers has been active at the Kennedy School, where he now has an office. He delivered a fall lecture in a faculty luncheon series, and has been giving his colleagues feedback on their work. Zeckhauser drops by Summers?? office regularly to grab a Diet Coke and to talk shop—the two are currently working on a paper on global warming...
...With the 2008 presidential election approaching, Summers??a former Treasury Secretary—has also dipped his feet back into the political waters he once inhabited. Colleagues say he has been giving advice to multiple presidential candidates...
...Summers??remembered for his funding of several College social events—has found time for undergraduates as well, hosting a dinner in his backyard for seniors who had taken popular freshman seminar on globalization three years...
...Zeckhauser says that Summers?? intellectual drive also motivated his entrance into the private sector—Summers joined the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. as a part-time advisor last October, and says he plans to continue next year. Summers was likely attracted to D.E. Shaw in particular, Zeckhauser said, because of its quantitatively oriented approach to investing and the opportunity to surround himself with particularly intelligent co-workers...
Following Summers?? resignation, the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s most powerful governing body, and three members of the alumni Board of Overseers were charged with finding a new leader. James R. Houghton ’58, the senior fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William...