Some endowment funds have guidelines stating how much of each year's investment income can be spent. For many universities, this amount is approximately 5% of the endowment's total asset value. Some institutions, such as Harvard, have endowments that are worth billions of dollars, so this 5% ...
Between 1985 and 2008, Harvard University's endowment generated 15.23% returns, while Yale pulled in 16.62%. Both endowments handily outperformed theS&P 500, which only grew 12% during that same time period. But there is no magic formula behind any one school's success. In fact, each univers...
Currently, at Texas State University, we are part of a Texas-wide university effort championed by the Texas Digital Library (TDL) to implement a statewide consortial data repository based on Harvard University’s open source solution, Dataverse. Dataverse is a software framework that enables ...
It is only by developing oneself in one’s own field that the greatest professional satisfaction can be obtained, and obstacles in development can be overcome to achieve the highest level. However, the knowledge of one’s own talent is a process, and knowledge may change over time. ...
“Targeted Poverty Alleviation”. This strategy focuses on mobilizing resources all over the country to solve the poverty problem by 2020. According to the National Big Data Platform of Poverty Alleviation and Economic Development, more than 88% of poor rural households have been empowered to ...