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...While HMC has had five different CEOs since 2005, Mendillo says that she has no intention of leaving Harvard anytime soon. “This job will never get routine,” Mendillo says. “It’s very challenging, but it has a lot of inherent variety and intellectual interest.”A SHORT HIATUSIn her early years at HMC, Mendillo gained experience investing nearly all of the endowment’s major asset classes. She also assembled the University’s pioneering timberland portfolio, which helps hedge risk from traditional equity investments...
...flesh out major structural changes, donors approve of the restraint she has shown in approaching budget cuts.“I think the fact that they’re being cautious and not doing anything out of the ordinary—I think there’s a lot of wisdom in that,” Hissey says. More drastic measures would have suggested less consideration for the “human impact” of inevitable changes at the University, Cogan says, adding that “there’s a high level of respect and confidence...
...often keeps in touch, she notes that he is careful to keep quiet details of his job at Harvard, explaining that there are “things that are relatively private in his job—he keeps it that way, so there’s a lot we probably don’t know...
...January time period based on their curricular needs.” Verba says that his calendar reform committee acknowledged that substantial resources would need to be devoted to making J-Term programming a reality. “If formal programming was to be a success, a lot of resources had to be devoted to it,” says former Harvard professor Lisa L. Martin, a co-chair of a committee focused on J-Term during the time of curricular review. “But this never happened.”Though the Conley report suggested that an office...
...this side of the river would be impaired if Harvard had moved too aggressively with Allston, and that clearly happened,” says Richard F. Thomas, a classics professor. Instead, “it was pretty much show and tell. I think there would have been a lot more balancing of the current, real parts of the University, and a lot less aggressive movement in Allston if the perception that some of us had was taken into account.”But others say it is unfair to make such accusations only after a nose-diving economy has made...