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...September, El-Erian abruptly announced his intention to step down from the helm of HMC after just 22 months in office. He was succeeded last month by Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs, who will serve as HMC??€™s interim chief during the search for a long-term leader...
...packages for endowment officials became a heated issue after two of HMC??€™s top officials, David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, each earned more than $30 million in 2003. When the salaries became public, some alumni threatened to reduce their donations to Harvard if the University failed to rein in the high compensation...
Appointing an interim CEO two months into the search process could be an indication that the search committee—comprised of the 12 members of HMC??€™s Board of Directors—is concerned about finding a full-time replacement before El-Erian departs...
...Many of HMC??€™s publicly-traded investments, however, are already made public due to regular disclosures Harvard is forced to make to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To maintain some secrecy, these disclosures are lagged by about six weeks, though they occur quarterly and are archived in readily accessible databases like the SEC’s online EDGAR database. Any motivated investigator could satiate their curiosity about HMC??€™s publicly-traded balance sheet two months ago fairly easily. In fact, The Crimson has reported on Harvard’s investments in companies connected to Darfur...
Given the existence of these disclosures, putting more information about Harvard’s investments derived from the public disclosures on HMC??€™s website would improve the Harvard communities’ trust of HMC without diminishing its financial edge. Consequently, we hope it revamps the site again in a way that consolidates specific investment and structural information in a readable format. Doing so would create real transparency, not just a pretty Web site...