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...letter from McCarthy also went to Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, University Corporation member; Allen J. Proctor '73, vice president for finance; Jay O. Light, Baker professor of business administration; and Michael Thonis, Michael Eisenson and Verne Sadlacek...
...letter was also sent to Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, University Corporation member; Allen J. Proctor '73, vice president for finance; Jay O. Light, Baker professor of business administration; and Michael Thonis, Michael Eisenson and Verne Sedlacek...
Harvard Private Capital is one of the largest private investment companies in thecountry. At times, however, Sperling and partnerMichael Eisenson were plagued with charges ofovervaluing investments on which their performancebonuses were based. Earlier this decade HMC wasforced to write down $200 million in Aeneasinvestments, 20 percent of the portfolio's valueat the time...
Critics of HMC have said that in a normal investment firm,. the man agers of that portfolio would have been fired. At Harvard, however, managers Scott M. Sperling and Michael Eisenson paid for their error through smaller performance bonuses that year...
That's why it took nearly a decade of steadily plummeting returns before the University finally ousted Meyer's predecessor, Walter M. Cabot '55. And it's why many of Cabot's top henchmen, including Scott M. Sperling and Michael Eisenson--the managers of HMC's high-risk, high-gain private placement portfolio--continue to work at HMC, earning stratospheric salaries, despite their lackluster performance. Sperling and Eisenson achieved fame several years ago for becoming the first HMC officials to top the $1 million compensation barrier, just two years before the University marked down the value of their portfolio...