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According to Meyer, hedge funds, a common form of external management, charge an average of 1.5 percent in annual management fees plus 20 percent of profits. HMC, on the other hand, gets the job done while charging a base fee of 0.26 percent plus incentives—which can be positive or negative. Thus, Meyer estimates that Harvard would have paid roughly twice as much over the past 10 years to achieve the same returns on the endowment using external management...
Meyer, who designed HMC’s compensation system, believes it is sound. On top of a base salary around $400,000, the incentive-based system provides managers with bonuses when they outperform their benchmarks...
...oration, entitled “The Campus Somniorum” or “The Field of Dreams” enacts an extended conceit between Harvard’s and America’s athletic pastime—comparing each year of her college education to one base on the diamond...
Hsia even managed to integrate an explorative quest into her senior thesis film project, following a seven-year-old growing up in the Hare Krishna religious sect, which claims to base its way of life on ancient Indian scriptures...
...brought a really strong sense of dedication to the aims of the institution, a willingness to base decisions on facts rather than politics, a sense of openness and candor, and a real commitment to doing what’s best for the school,” Badaracco said...