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Harvard Management Co. is responsible for the strong returns of 26% in 1996 earned by the Harvard endowment fund. The high bonuses of fund managers, such as Jonathon Jacobson, who earned $6.1 million in 1995, has sparked controversy. Harvard Management president Jack Meyer claims high bonus pay inspires his managers to do their best.

Crimson & Clover The world is divided into two kinds of people - those who went to Harvard and those who did not. Such distinctions are everything to the Harvardian [...]

Cambridge has the largest endowment of any British university, at £4.9 billion ($7.4 billion). It sounds impressive until you look at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Harvard and MIT manage endowments worth [...]

Byline: Dan Berrett Three years ago, two of America's most influential universities made eye-popping commitments to improve teaching. Harvard University announced that it would devote $40-million to encourage its faculty [...]

'They Will Not Stop' In 1991, Anita F. Hill, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, publicly accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment after he was nominated to the U.S. [...]

Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., says it has received the largest individual gift in its history, a $125 million donation from entrepreneur Hansjorg Wyss. The money will underwrite a new […]

Some helpful subsidies from Harvard and Yale WEAK dollar or no, $46,000--the price for a single year of undergraduate instruction amid the red brick of Harvard Yard--is expensive. But nowadays […]

Harvard University, owner of a $37.1-billion endowment, said its 8.1-percent return on the fund in the most recent fiscal year was [...]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison isn't giving Harvard a promised gift of $115 million because Lawrence Summers stepped down as the university's president after a stormy tenure, an Oracle spokesman said. […]

Honeywell expects ongoing expenses related to its $10 billion pension fund to cut 36 cents per share from the company's earnings this year, the company announced Jan. 31. The company [...]

Self-operated college and university foodservice operations taking part in FoodService Director's 2000-01 Performance Report rang up foodservice sales of $1.4 billion, up 8.9% from the prior year. Attempts to revamp [...]

The Charter Oak apartment complex in Creve Coeur is on the sale block with an asking price of $30.5 million. A Harvard University pension fund and St. Louis-based The Michelson [...]

As spring arrives and college commencement season draws near; thoughts turn to one's dear old alma mater ... unless you're Charlesbank Capital Partners. The private equity firm recently announced it [...]

CAMRIDGE--Is Harvard College's decision to give scholarship students each an extra $2,000 in financial aid money next year a reaction to sweetened financial aid packages being offered by other selective [...]

The Massachusetts Health & Education Facilities Authority is slated to issue approximately $125 million of revenue bonds for Harvard University tomorrow, marking the first time since the 1980s the school [...]

Harvard University has launched $21 million affordable-housing initiative, citing rising home prices in Massachusetts. President Neil L. Rudenstine on Wednesday announced a program that includes a $20 million low-interest loan [...]

Administrators and investment managers at Harvard University in recent weeks have endured public scrutiny of a $2-billion loss in the university's endowment value. The editorial board at The Harvard Crimson [...]