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Eliot Spitzer Needs Our Help
Nov 11, 2009, 4:14pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Eliot Spitzer is scheduled to deliver a lecture tomorrow at Harvard. The topic: ethics. Unfortunately, some people would rather the event not come to pass. Namely, Kristin Davis, the hedge fund employee-cum-Madam who personally scheduled a slew of Spitzer's appointments...
HBS Grad: The Fewer Harvard Business Alums Out There, The Better
Nov 06, 2009, 12:23pm
Posted by Bess Levin
For the good of the market, encourage your MBA-candidate friends in Cambridge to pursue careers in the cross-dressing and law enforcement fields. 2009 Harvard MBA Indicator Shifts to 'Neutral' [PDF] A Contrary Indicator On MBA's And Stocks [DealBook]...
Park The Car In Harvard Yard We're Going To A Party
Aug 06, 2009, 6:32pm
Posted by Equity Private
Obviously, bold displays of ostentatious wealth, power, elitism, or exclusivity seem misplaced in the present environment. So much so that one wonders if, some years hence, we might not look back on this period as the "anti-too-big-to-fail" period. Or the...
He Was Wearing My Harvard Tie. Can You Believe It?
Aug 05, 2009, 1:10pm
Posted by Equity Private
Poor, poverty-stricken Harvard. Gazing at 30% losses for their latest fiscal year and the tatters of a management team for the endowment, it is unsurprising that they would start trying to fill the ranks. You have to like their chances....
They've Got It Laminated On Little Cards So You Know This Is Serious
May 30, 2009, 12:52pm
Posted by Bess Levin
Just wanted to pop in and tell you not to fear that tomorrow's business leaders will get us into another sticky situation, 'cause Harvard MBA students, like the ones above, are now taking an oath promising not to do...
Larry Summers Can Fix This
May 29, 2009, 9:51am
Posted by Bess Levin
There's a lengthy article in Boston Magazine about how Harvard has been hemmoraging money (the endowment has lost $11 billion, bringing it down to 2005's mere $25 bill, due in no small part to Harvard Management Company, which one alum...
Fast Times At Harvard Management Company
Apr 23, 2009, 4:51pm
Posted by Equity Private
Of course, it is pretty easy after the fact to point fingers and cast aspersions. But when what would appear to be a pattern of laxity, misfeasance and perhaps even malfeasance begins to emerge out of the mist, well, things...
Don't Even Try To Blame Harvard For This Mess
Posted in Heard in the Suite, Apr 03, 2009, 2:25pm
Posted by Muffie Benson-Perella
Muffie Benson-Perella (muffie AT muffmarkets.com) was an Associate in the Investment Banking Division of a "Bulge Bracket" bank. She holds a B.A. in French and Art from Vassar College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. She concentrated in Contemporary...
The Lava-Like Flow Of Hot Tips Continues
Feb 06, 2009, 12:55pm
Posted by Equity Private
We have no idea what the cause might be. Friday? Boredom? Unemployment? Whatever the case, the tips are pouring in to the Bess Levin hot tips hotline(tm). Ironic that this should happen on the afternoon when Bess is on assignment....
Park The Car In Harvard Yard
Dec 19, 2008, 2:55pm
Posted by Equity Private
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that "Six top Harvard endowment managers were paid a total of $26.8 million for the fiscal year ended June 30." It should be pointed out that the endowment fund earned returns just south of...
My Endowment Is Still Bigger Than Yours
Dec 03, 2008, 9:10am
Posted by Equity Private
Remember when everyone wanted to be able to invest "like Harvard" does? (Of course this really just translated to a massive move into equities and increasing reliance on hedge funds and managers). In retrospect, you could easily called the top...
Memories....
Nov 26, 2008, 10:37am
Posted by Equity Private
Remember the good old days? The latest financial sporting fad was predicting the imminent death of private equity. LIBOR meant something. Someone was going to make a killing in commodities, you'll see. Endowments were the BSD's to emulate on the...
Citi To Score Board Member With Financial Acumen
Jul 09, 2008, 10:49am
Posted by Bess Levin
Barring any last minute violent protests from certain shareholders (Alwaleed) who've gotten comfortable with a precipitously falling stock price, Citi is reportedly thisclose to announcing that Harvard Business School dean Jay O. Light will join its board. Though his expertise...
Comcast Packed The Net Neutrality Debate At Harvard
Posted in Politics, Regulators, continuing education, Feb 26, 2008, 3:43pm
Posted by John Carney
Yesterday a cameraman for the Free Press caught two members of the audience napping during an FCC hearing on net neutrality at Harvard Law School. Now we don't blame them for snoozing through a meeting about net neutrality--our eyes...
