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Earlier this year, the University rallied around relief efforts in Haiti, in large part driven by the work of Professor Paul E. Farmer, whose non-profit Partners In Health played a key role in providing health care for victims of January’s earthquake.
“We’re better when we’re more integrated as opposed to less integrated,” said professor David M. Cutler ’87, who will direct undergraduate and graduate programs in global health for the Institute. “That?...
A report written by Harvard Lecturer Joshua Humphreys and issued by the Center for Social Philanthropy at the Tellus Institute suggests that the “higher-risk, higher-return” manner in which the University invests its endowment has worsened the financial crisis.
The report suggests that risky investment practices have already had both short-term and long-term consequences for local communities.
The report proposes that Harvard’s 310 cost-reducing layoffs resulted in a $53,709,863 loss and deepened the recession for the local economy.