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...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. When Mendillo took the helm at HMC last summer, real...
...bolster the University’s cash reserves. Instead of winning donors over with plans for a new building dedicated to cutting-edge research, University leaders changed tactics and approached them for current use gifts and unrestricted funds to sustain Harvard’s core activities in the short-term.“We felt that it is very important to have resources to make immediate interventions that will have good outcomes in the long-term,” Faust says, citing the need for greater flexibility in diverting funds. Unrestricted funds can be used at the discretion of University...
...short-list includes acting Dean Howell E. Jackson and Harvard Law School Professors David J. Barron ’89, John Coates, John F. Manning ’82, Martha Minow, David B. Wilkins ’77, and Elizabeth Warren, according to the senior Law School professor familiar with the search process...
...faculty interviewed say that the other candidates on the short list have taken their names out of contention because they are not interested in becoming Dean, at least at this point in their careers...
...While the Renewal Report acknowledges that the SCR presently falls short of its goal of fostering “meaningful” interactions among faculty, students, and alumni, and recommends bolstering the presence of SCR members in House communities, House Masters targeted SCR expenses for budget reductions...