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...asset exposure and repositioning the portfolio for stronger long-term performance.But managing Wellesley’s assets likely never represented the full extent of Mendillo’s ambitions, and former Wellesley President Diana C. Walsh says she understood that Mendillo’s time was limited when they hired her. Nevertheless, she says the school is grateful for the work she did.The portfolio Mendillo created for Wellesley saw annualized returns of 13.5 percent during her first five years in charge. “I believe I was able to leave [Wellesley] in a much stronger position than what...
...Plenty of universities hire professors [in the field], but an endowed professorship is a statement by the University that this is an important program,” said Caucus member Thomas H. Parry ’74, who helped initiate the campaign to raise money for the cause...
...more empathetic than other people, but these traits are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned and developed.A nice experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group of employers were asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks. If the employers saw only the resumes, beauty had no impact on hiring. Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people did better even though unseen by the employers. A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetic...
When the financial giant American Insurance Group began wading into a world of new and complex financial instruments, putting hundreds of billions of dollars on the line, the company’s top brass was unconcerned.AIG had hired Gary B. Gorton—a financial economist at Yale—to use quantitative models to project the worst case scenario for the company’s balance sheet.Using historical data, the models predicted a rosy future not too-unlike the recent, prosperous past, giving AIG’s leadership confidence in entering uncharted markets.But by last September, one of AIG?...
...Teachers and administrators in several departments also confirmed that they would not be reducing undergraduate employment. Computer Science 50 Professor David J. Malan ’99 says he plans to hire the same number of students this year as last year, while Chair of the Mathematics Department Shing-Tung Yau says he had not been informed of any need to cut undergraduate instructors...