Summers succeeded despite this challenge, Delong says.
"He was extremely good at making people who work for him feel valued," Delong says. "He could get the most out of them."
But Summers was also good at making it look like he was disappointed.
"Often people had done their best, but he assumed that they could have been doing better," Delong says.
The Candidate
They see him as a candidate who combines the intellectual credentials of his career as an economist--he was the first in his profession to win the National Science Foundation's top prize for scientific achievement--with the managerial aptitude he gained in the administration.
Elaine C. Kamarck, senior policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore '69 and a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, says that in some ways the structure of the Harvard administration resembles the structure of the Treasury Department.
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