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...Summers himself was not far behind in the running. “He would have been a contender,” says J. Bradford DeLong ’82, an economist at the University of California-Berkeley...
...DeLong and other friends of Summers speculate that the University president might be persuaded to leave Cambridge behind if he were offered the Fed chairmanship. But the ironic consequence of this year’s flap over Summers’ leadership is that—by dashing his own Fed prospects—Summers might have lengthened his tenure at Harvard...
...head, says DeLong, “is a job in which in general you get little credit—and if anything goes wrong you get a good deal of blame....You don’t want someone in that job who hasn’t demonstrated the ability to survive...
...Larry Summers is not a closet conservative,” says University of California-Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong ’82, who served alongside Summers both on the Harvard faculty and at the Treasury Department...
...players, says DeLong, are a company's critical caretakers as firms go through the typical upheavals: CEO shuffles, corporate mergers, abrupt strategy changes. Because the B players tend to think of the company as a family, they often take the time to nurture and train inexperienced employees. The B's can save companies from disastrous oversights and unethical corner cutting, since their ties to the firm tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt...