Overview
- Harvard confirmed it accepted Summers’s resignation as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.
- Summers will leave his faculty posts at the end of the academic year and will remain on leave until then without teaching or taking new advisees.
- Files published by the U.S. Department of Justice show extensive correspondence between Summers and Epstein over several years.
- Harvard’s broader review of individuals named in the newly disclosed documents is ongoing, according to university statements.
- Summers has faced professional sanctions including a lifetime ban from the American Economic Association and prior resignations from outside roles such as the OpenAI board, and no criminal charges have been reported against him.