Harvard Is Trying to Smooth Things Over With Silicon Valley
11 months ago

Harvard Is Trying to Smooth Things Over With Silicon Valley

Live Mint  

Executives atop Harvard University’s $51 billion endowment made an unusual tour of Silicon Valley last week to try to smooth relationships with top venture-capital investors. Private-equity executive Paul Finnegan, the endowment’s chair and a member of the 12-person Harvard Corporation that governs the university, also attended some meetings. Harvard executives in meetings last week said that the endowment isn’t political and doesn’t play a role in choosing Harvard’s president, said people familiar with the matter. Slocum has been in touch with Josh Kushner of Thrive Capital in New York, who has been among the more outspoken venture managers to Harvard’s endowment about Israel and antisemitism.

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Harvard’s $51 Billion fund beats Yale in hard year for endowments

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Harvard University’s endowment earned an investment return of 2.9% during the latest fiscal year, beating rival Yale University and most other Ivy League peers but lagging far behind plain old US stocks. Returns were “mildly negative” in venture capital/growth investments and only slightly positive in private equity, Harvard said in a financial report. Private asset managers were slow to increase …

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