Harvard's Endowment Drops Sharply Amid Recession
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 01.21.2009 | Business
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.
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
AP | BOB SALSBERG | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business