"Like the Treasury Department, Harvard is composed of its own little empires," she says, adding that the business school, the law school and the medical school would be analogous to the IRS, ATF and the U.S. Mint.
When one branch of that structure wasn't working as it should have been, Summers acted aggressively to fix it.
Summers played a decisive role, Sandberg says, in initiating IRS reform.
"Larry was the first person to really recognize the problem," she says. "He said it was a time for a change, and saw the change through."
Summers also led the department's search to bring in a new head of the IRS.
He was most effective in making these kinds of personnel decisions, Waldman says.
"Larry was excellent at reaching into the younger ranks, the younger civil servants, to find minds," Waldman says.
University President Neil L. Rudenstine is known for spending long hours on meticulous searches. Delong also says that Summers' ability to pick good people is one of his greatest strengths.
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