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Harvard officials announced Friday that the University raked in $651 million in the most recent fiscal year, a number that represents the second largest annual fundraising total in history and is six percent higher than the previous year?...
...heap in the world of higher education. In fiscal year 2007, Harvard’s $614 million haul was only exceeded by Stanford, which netted $832 million. The West Coast school is in the midst of a five-year, $4.3-billion capital campaign that is among the largest in the history of higher education...
...Harvard’s most recent total was aided by a number of large donations, most notably a $100 million gift from David Rockefeller ’36—the largest ever from an alumnus—to fund international programs and the arts...
...Harvard Law School’s capital campaign also boosted the total by $54 million. That campaign, which ended in June and is the largest in the history of legal education, “is expected to have exceeded its $400 million goal,” according to Harvard’s fundraising announcement last week...
...official: Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy case in history on Monday, Sept. 15, as the storied investment bank fell prey to the credit crisis. According to Bankruptcydata.com, Lehman's assets before filing for bankruptcy were six to seven times the pre-filing assets of the second largest bankruptcy since...