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...come to a head in the past. The ballooning growth of Harvard’s endowment to surpass $10 billion in 1997, Meyer says, prompted the board to review HMC’s structure to determine whether a restructuring or outsourcing was needed. In the end, Harvard elected to maintain its in-house investment outfit because the board determined that, even with its problems, HMC was still the most practical group to manage the endowment...
Meyer says that his successor will have a number of options for the direction to take Harvard’s endowment. One possibility, he says, is that the new CEO could choose to maintain internal management for some assets, but increase the use of outside managers, changing the mix from 50 percent invested externally to, say, 65 percent. Another potential choice facing the CEO is for Harvard to invest securities through hedge funds via external managers but focus its in-house efforts on asset classes like timber...
...likely that, in a move to align calendars with the other schools of the University, undergraduates will soon face the prospect of final exams before winter break for the fall term. Should exam period find a new home and the College begin opening its gates in late August, we maintain our skepticism of plans for a formalized academic January term. We are pleased that in its latest report the committee on a January term emphasized the need for a flexible and optional program. With a more torrent pace to the fall term, students will welcome a reprieve from the demands...
...CCSR “has already admitted the close nexus between oil revenue and the ongoing Sudanese genocide,” Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06, co-founder of HarvardDivest.com, said last month. “In light of that, it is egregious that they continue to maintain their holdings in foreign oil companies in Sudan...
...There have been challenges—particularly in an environment where the media’s credibility is being questioned—but that’s what keeps it interesting. We need to maintain the highest standards and ethics in order to keep the faith of the public in media,” she says...