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Tag: Endowment
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Nation & World
Faust: Let’s break down boundaries
Harvard President Drew Faust took questions from television journalist Charlie Gibson, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School this year, in a Sanders Theatre forum intended to kick off the school year.
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Harvard endowment posts strong positive return
Harvard’s endowment earned an investment return of 11 percent for the year and was valued at $27.6 billion on June 30.
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‘Harvard lifts aspirations’
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig spoke before a Harvard Alumni Association audience about institutional ethics and alumna Linda Greenhouse interviewed President Faust about Harvard’s future during a Paine Hall event.
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Faust takes the long view
President Drew Faust addresses the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, discusses tough economic times, recommitment to expansion, and ties with Allston neighborhood.
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Q&A on Harvard’s financial report
Harvard University’s treasurer, Jim Rothenberg, and its chief financial officer, Dan Shore, discuss the annual report and the lessons learned in a tough economic climate.
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Harvard’s Faust Plots Course for ‘Unified’ School in Crisis
Harvard University President Drew Faust is pushing to knock down traditional budgeting barriers among the school’s independent divisions, after the school lost $11 billion of endowment value last fiscal year.
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President stresses culture of collaboration
The importance of the University’s mission has been heightened by the challenges of our times, President Drew Faust said Thursday (Sept. 24), but Harvard must foster a new culture of collaboration across the University in order to meet those challenges.
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Harvard Management Company announces fiscal 2009 results
Harvard University’s endowment declined 27.3 percent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, one of the most challenging periods in modern times for financial markets.
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Nation & World
Harvard endowment posts solid positive return
Harvard University’s endowment earned an 8.6 percent return during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, bringing the overall value of the University’s endowment to $36.9 billion. The continued strong returns reinforce the endowment’s ability to provide critical support for Harvard’s academic programs and mission. In fiscal 2008, distributions from the endowment totaled $1.6 billion,…
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Nation & World
Jane Mendillo to lead Harvard Management Company
Jane Mendillo will become the new president and chief executive officer of Harvard Management Company (HMC), effective July 1, 2008, the HMC board of directors announced today.
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Nation & World
Harvard endowment posts strong positive return
Harvard University’s endowment earned a 23.0 percent return during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. With FY07 being one of the best performance years since the inception of Harvard Management Company in 1974, the overall value of the University’s endowment grew to $34.9 billion.
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art established
David Rockefeller has agreed to establish a new Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curatorship of Asian Art within the Harvard University Art Museums, Thomas W. Lentz, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, announced recently.
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$2.5 million endowment fund to honor Sidney Verba
Friends and colleagues of Sidney Verba, Harvard’s Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the University Library, have established a $2.5 million endowment fund in his honor.
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Harvard endowment posts solid positive return
Harvard University’s endowment earned a 16.7 percent return during the year ending June 30, 2006, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $29.2 billion. The continued strong returns reinforce the endowment’s critical support for Harvard’s academic programs and mission. In the 2006 fiscal year, endowment dollars provided almost a third of Harvard’s operating budget, or over…
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Year of transition sees rethinking, rebuilding
With change comes opportunity, the adage goes. That old saying has become words to live by at Harvard Management Company (HMC). With a new president and CEO in Mohamed El-Erian, with new heads of five critical areas beneath him, and with new staff in those five areas just starting to filter in, it may be…