Word: boston-area
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...endowment, or just under $4.8 billion. University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to confirm the sale when asked about the Private Equity Week report last week, citing a standing Harvard policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief Jack R. Meyer’s Convexity Capital Management—also declined to comment at the time on any action HMC may be taking to sell investments it has with them. Private equity has traditionally been...
...equity assets. HMC Director of Private Equity Peter Dolan could not be reached for comment, and University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to confirm the sale due to Harvard’s standing policy not to “discuss investment strategies or individual investments.” Several Boston-area hedge funds that received substantial initial investments from Harvard—including ex-HMC chief Jack R. Meyer’s Convexity Capital—all declined to comment on any action HMC may be taking to sell the investments it has with them. “We have...
...Boston-area college students joined over 100 million people from around the world in the “Stand Up & Take Action Against Poverty” movement on Friday, holding a rally in Paine Hall and at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub. The approximately 100 attendees publicly committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals, which call for halving the number of people in extreme poverty by 2015. The rally’s keynote speaker, Harvard Kennedy School student Hyoung-Joon Lim, spoke about his personal experiences in developing countries and compared worldwide hunger to the Indian Ocean...
...This sort of behavior is an embarrassment. We must collectively cross our fingers that we will narrowly escape The Princeton Review’s list of top party schools next year, as we are teetering on the edge of being publicly exposed as a wild bunch. Officials at other Boston-area colleges have been quicker to address this issue than Harvard, but our administration should follow suit and initiate its own sleep-awareness campaign before it’s too late. Hopefully this will focus on the ways in which exhaustion-inducing patterns are negatively impacting our daily lives...
...that April, Boston-area colleges, including Harvard, tried to organize a Week of Resistance to oppose the Solomon Amendment. Harvard planned to host a debate on the law, but it was canceled because the law’s architect, Representative Gerald B. H. Solomon, did not attend...