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Responding to a growing concern with the way universities invest their money, Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement and Yale’s Responsible Endowment Project co-hosted a two-day Responsible Endowment Conference in Cambridge this weekend with the aim of demystifying university fund management. The conference, which was also attended by Wellesley and Bowdoin students, included presentations from students from both organizing schools, Harvard faculty, and several individuals who work in the field of responsible investing. “It became very clear early on that there was a lot of interest in endowments, even before...
...real question, then, is not whether Obama should push to use the stimulus to promote his long-term priorities but whether he will. He has said repeatedly that he wants to invest our children's money wisely, but he's also eager to blast money into the economy quickly, attract bipartisan support and let Congress work its will. So it's not clear how hard he'll push to fund his long-term agenda. But he should ignore the partisan gripes that the stimulus is becoming a "Christmas tree." Congress is about to toss almost $1 trillion into the economy...
...percent committed to completing [the science complex] and the community benefits associated with it.”But according to the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), Harvard cannot unilaterally decide to modify the pace of the science complex construction. “Even if Harvard chooses not to invest further money in constructing the project, they cannot do it without negotiating with the city,” said Kairos Shen, Boston’s chief planner. Shen added that because Harvard has not yet notified the BRA of any changes to its plan, the city has not considered the issue...
...Many of [our] peer institutions have decided that their strategy would be to take this as an opportunity to be aggressive and to invest in the future and in junior faculty,” said James H. Stock, chair of Harvard’s economics department. “I think that those are wise decisions...
Nevertheless, few Brits in positions of power to boost the U.K.'s capacity to deal more efficiently with snow believe that further investment is warranted. A poll, to be published tomorrow on the website PoliticsHome.com, of 100 Westminster politicians and other influential figures will reveal a big majority against the proposition that "it is time for Britain to invest in snow preparedness." More than three quarters of respondents believe that snowfalls like this one are so rare - this week's fall was the biggest in 18 years - that buying additional equipment would be a waste of money. That doesn...