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The Harvard Endowment Is on the Verge of Losing Its Crown

2024/11/22
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Joe Weisenthal和Tracy Alloway讨论了大学捐赠基金的重要性以及哈佛大学捐赠基金面临的挑战，指出其近年来表现平平，甚至不如其他常春藤盟校。Janet Lorin详细介绍了哈佛大学捐赠基金的历史、投资策略以及管理层的变动，并将其与耶鲁大学的捐赠基金模式进行了比较。讨论还涉及到德克萨斯大学捐赠基金的快速增长及其石油收入的来源。

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The discussion begins with the potential loss of Harvard's title as the largest university endowment and explores the factors contributing to this shift, including organizational turmoil and external controversies.
  • Harvard Endowment is at risk of losing its crown to the University of Texas.
  • Organizational tumult and external controversies have affected Harvard's performance.
  • Texas has unique tailwinds, including a huge energy windfall.

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For years, the Harvard Endowment has easily been the largest endowment of any university. But as of right now, it's at risk of losing its crown to the University of Texas. So what happened? It's a combination of things including organizational tumult, external controversies over the university, controversy about the endowment's model itself, and other factors. And of course, Texas has unique tailwinds -- including a huge energy windfall -- that aren't easily replicated elsewhere. On this episode we speak with Bloomberg's higher education reporter Janet Lorin about what's changed at this huge source of capital.Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer). You’ll get episodes of this podcast ad-free and exclusive access to our daily Odd Lots newsletter. Already a subscriber? Connect your account on the Bloomberg channel page) in Apple Podcasts to listen ad-free.

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