Word: money
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of Harvard's problem last year was that it simply had too much money. Venture capital firms, which returned some of the highest profits for investors last year, often cap the amount any one institution can invest in them...
...Harvard was stymied from investing as large a percentage of its billions as it would have liked in this area, while other schools with less to spend got proportionally more of their money into venture capital...
Venture capital funds provide money to new companies. In recent years, with the advent of hot new markets like the Internet, venture capital funds have become increasingly popular. Venture capitalists have begun limiting to make sure large corporations don't dominate...
Within venture capital, caps on the highest-paying funds mean that big investors and smaller investors often put about the same amount of money into a given fund...
...with twice the money in its coffers but the same amount in dollars invested in venture capital as other schools, Harvard feels the benefit of these lucrative funds, which paid off 136 percent in 1999, in a proportionally smaller...