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...listed on the filings. External investment firms currently manage 70 percent of the endowment. According to its 2008 year-end financial report, emerging market equity made up 10 percent of the University’s portfolio and returned 7.6 percent as of June 30, beating the HMC board-approved benchmark of 4.8 percent for the asset class.The year-end report noted that Harvard uses both internal and external managers, as well as international private equity funds, to oversee its emerging market equity, and listed as one policy change for the coming fiscal year “a need to think...
...stole the show in the opener, pitching her 14th complete game of the season for an eight-hit victory. But it was her routine first-inning strikeout of the Big Green’s Nikki Yee that put Brown in the Harvard record books, setting a new single-season benchmark for strikeouts. She finished the day with 10 on the afternoon and 192 on the season.“It’s an awesome feeling, but I think it’s definitely overshadowed by what the team’s doing, and I think that?...
...whole—which include liquid commodities, real estate, and timber and agricultural land—represented 26 percent of the endowment in 2008, according to a Harvard financial statement. Last year, the real estate portfolio provided returns of 3.2 percent—beating the HMC board-approved benchmark of 2.4 percent. Cummings, a Chicago and Dartmouth graduate, said in the University statement that he was “honored to be joining such a world-class group of investment managers,” and that he looked forward to furthering Harvard’s educational and research mission. Cummings...
...policy guarantees that each class will contain a handful of summas—a departure from previous policy in which the Law school only awarded its highest honor to students meeting the astronomical benchmark of a 7.2 minimum GPA. Because the benchmark was absolute, the Law School had routinely graduated consecutive classes without awarding a single student the summa cum laude...
...real dumbing down of those goals. What they're very tight on is how you get there. I think what we need to do is fundamentally reverse that - I think we need to be really tight on goals and have these common college-ready international benchmark standards that we're all aiming for, but then be much looser in how you let folks get there...