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...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 assets—like timber, agricultural land, and real estate—comprised roughly a quarter of the then-$37 billion endowment.Eventually, during these early years, she became vice president of external management, a post that had her overseeing investments...
...just less than a year, Forst, who formerly served as Goldman Sachs’ chief administrative officer, had refinanced Harvard’s capital structure to reduce the University’s risk in its investment strategies. From his vantage point in Mass. Hall, Forst—described as “data-driven” by Christine M. Heenan, the University’s vice president for government, community, and public affairs—was able to identify inefficiencies in the University’s administrative system and consolidate University-wide procurement of resources, Shore says. Perhaps his years...
...risk of slighting those whose interests go unmentioned because of the brevity of the space available here, I would like to highlight two university priorities: global health and energy and environment. What is it that makes these areas of scholarship and teaching priorities even in the current climate? First, they have real world significance. Global health (which also includes domestic health issues, if only because microbes do not need passports) and issues of energy and environment confront challenges that any great research university must address. The emergence of pandemics, the development of new drugs, vaccines, and devices for neglected diseases...
...said Kagan, who graduated from the Law School in 1986. “But within all this difficulty there is also incredible potential and promise, and yours is the task of finding that promise by remaking the world.” Law School students have often been too risk-averse or too unwilling to take chances in the past, Kagan said—especially in a past when major law firms offered job security and six-figure salaries. As a result, the economic turmoil might have the beneficial side-effect of causing graduates to think through what career choices would...
...flexible. Traits have come to be seen as consistent patterns of personality rather than inherited characteristics. This definition mixes nature and nurture, and means that “traits” can, to some extent, be learned rather than merely inherited. We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk-taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people, but these traits are affected partly by a leader’s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned and developed.A nice experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group...