000 in it at the admissions office). These bribes were rejected. Forget your bribe for the admissions office, but if you have $500,000 or more to donate to the university endowment,
Department of Agriculture (USDA), and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The rational is that if a researcher is drawing from the public taxpayers’ trough, the research must be publicly accessible through both the article and original data. Sharing this data helps keep the wider ...
US Endowment “Marc did his research and came to our meeting full prepared. I got so much out of our one hour together. Can’t wait to try out my new elevator pitch!” Scott Kratz, Senior Vice President Building Bridges Across the River “I appreciate they way you quickly walked me thr...
MACBA, therefore, claims to engage with the public, not so much to educate or entertain them, but rather to “empower [them to] trigger social transformations”. While these aims are not necessarily mutually exclusive with those of the political field, which to a certain extent might support...
(LDCs), lower export cost and increase trade-related supply and infrastructure to promote exports. As a proactive participant in the “Aid for Trade” Initiative, China has undertaken to ramp up aid for trade. The question i...
To help build early childhood mental health, an understanding of how young children comprehend and communicate about wellbeing (i.e., wellbeing literacy) i
t much benefit of hindsight at Thrive. When I joined one of the firm’s monthly lunch-and-learns, it was led by one of the few people who could provide that: Thrive’s executive chairman, Nitin Nohria, a former Harvard Business School dean in his sixties. (Kloss calls him Kushner’s ...
The analogy of choice to explain this state of affairs is the "race of life." It's all well and good to ensure that the rules are applied equally once the starting gun has been fired, liberals say, but it really isn't much of a race when some have been training for years while ot...
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...