Robert R. Glauber, Harvard professor who led Black Monday presidential commission, dies at 81
By Globe staff and wire reportsUpdated March 6, 2021, 5:38 p.m.
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Robert Glauber in late 2002.Gino Domenico/Bloomberg News
Though he once told Harvard Universityâs student newspaper that his experience as a Harvard Business School professor offered âvery effective preparationâ for becoming under secretary of the US Treasury Department, Robert R. Glauber was reminded daily of the differences between academia and government.
âYou could write things at Harvard and no one would read it,â he said in a 1990 New York Times interview amid the finery of his Victorian-era office at the Treasury building that was so large it had been used during the Civil War to house soldiers. âHere, once you say something, it gets reported and everything is under a microscope.â
He helped lead and write a major report on causes of the 1987 stock market crash, then served in George H.W. Bush’s Treasury Department as undersecretary for domestic finance.