Harvard Endowment

Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession

AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business


BOSTON — The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was ...

Harvard Adjusts To Leaner Times: Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair | By Vanity Fair | Posted 08.03.2009 | Business


For years, administrators at Harvard University could throw money at anything that tickled their fancy. A new medical school building for $260 million...

Universities Addicted To Endowments: The Curse of Hoarded Treasure

Business Week | Peter Coy | Posted 04.01.2009 | Home


Something seems wrong with the way elite U.S. universities finance themselves. The problem: They're addicted to multibillion-dollar endowments. When t...

Harvard Scrambling To Pay Its Bills

New York Times | GERALDINE FABRIKANT | Posted 03.24.2009 | Business


Harvard may be the nation's wealthiest university, but it is short on cash. The school relies on its endowment to generate a third of the money for i...

How Much Has Harvard Really Lost?

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 01.21.2009 | Business


Edward Jay Epstein

Harvard University's admission that it lost $8 billion from its $36 billion endowment fund, as staggering as it sounds, may grossly underestimate the true magnitude of the losses.

How Will Colleges Survive? Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments Wither

Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business


Harvard recently reported that the value of its endowment dropped $8 billion between the end of June and October of this year. At the same time, a rec...

Schools Suffering In Crisis As Endowments, Donations Wither

BloggingStocks | Posted Dec 3rd 2008 12:00PM by Peter CohanFiled Under: Bad News, Economic Data, Politics, Recession, Financial Crisis | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business


Harvard reports that the value of its endowment has declined $8 billion between the end of June 2008 through October 2008. That would make Harvard's e...

Harvard Alumni Urge University To Tap Into $35B Endowment For Social Change

New York Times | STEPHANIE STROM | Posted 06.11.2008 | Living


For three years, a handful of Harvard University alumni have waged a quiet effort to persuade the university to expand its mission far beyond its Camb...

Harvard Hires First Woman To Manage $35 Billion Endowment

AP | Posted 04.05.2008 | Business


Harvard University has turned to a manager with a track record of success directing the assets of educational institutions, including Harvard itself, ...

College Endowments: Rich Get Richer

AP | JUSTIN POPE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


New figures on university endowments confirm it's not just the "haves" and "have nots" in academe these days. Beyond the great majority of colleges, t...

Ivy Funds Caught Up In Loan Shark Accusations

Bloomberg | Brian Kladko | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Harvard, Yale and Princeton universities' endowments are being accused of backing a loan with 42 percent interest, twice the legal limit, according to...

Retaining College Endowment Chiefs No Walk In Park

New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The Beatles insisted that money can't buy you love. Apparently it can do a lot of other things, like lure top-flight talent from one high-profile, wel...