Harvard Accepts Larry Summers’s Resignation From Center Post as He Plans Faculty Retirement

Overview

• Harvard Kennedy School said Dean Jeremy Weinstein accepted Summers’s resignation as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
• Summers announced he will retire from his Harvard faculty position at the end of the academic year and will remain on leave until then.
• Released case files detail sustained correspondence and exchanges of personal and economic advice between Summers and Epstein, including emails up to a day before Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
• House Oversight’s document release last November led to Summers being placed on leave, and he previously resigned from the OpenAI board.
• Harvard is reviewing individuals named in the Epstein files, and Summers has not been criminally charged.