What Not to Do With a $35.7 Billion Endowment
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Harvard Does a Trade You Should Never Make
The university with the biggest endowment in the world saved $50 million by hiring less expensive money managers -- but it also lost billions in investment returns. Barry Ritholtz says academic hubris and political correctness led to a series of terrible decisions that should provide big lessons for Harvard's leaders.