Facing a Financial Squeeze: What Harvard’s Response Can Teach the Rest of Us

How can we apply the same emergency measures that Harvard and other universities are using to navigate a financial crisis? Also, how universities invest their endowments and what their performance has been.Topics covered include:What has led to the financial crisis at HarvardWhat actions has the university takenHow do endowments invest and spend their fundsHow endowments maintain intergenerational equityHow we can apply the principles universities use in our own investingSponsorsNetSuite LinkedIn Jobs – Use this link to post your job for free on LinkedIn JobsInsiders Guide Email NewsletterGet our free Investors' Checklist when you sign up for the free Money for the Rest of Us email newsletterOur Premium ProductsAsset CampMoney for the Rest of Us PlusShow NotesLetter Sent to Harvard 2025-04-11—HarvardHarvard Response 2025-04-14—HarvardTrump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands by Vimal Patel—The New York TimesShould Harvard Be Tax Exempt? by The Editorial Board—The Wall Street JournalFact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reforms Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education—The White HouseAt Grim Town Hall, Harvard Medical School Leaders Tell Staff to Expect Layoffs and Far-Reaching Cuts by Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar—The Harvard CrimsonCan Harvard Use Its Endowment To Make Up For Federal Cuts? It’s Possible, but Not That Simple. by Avani B. Rai and Saketh Sundar—The Harvard CrimsonYale Weighs $850 Million Bond Sale Amid Trump’s Higher Education Attack by Elizabeth Rembert and Amanda Albright—BloombergYale seeks to sell billions in private equity investments as political pressures from Trump mount by Liese Klein—CT Insider2024 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments—NACUBOEndowments Face Liquidity Crunch Amid Market Pullback, Funding Cuts by Matt Toledo—Chief Investment OfficerBig investors borrow against private equity holdings amid cash crunch by Amelia Pollard and Antoine Gara—The Financial TimesRelated Episodes402: Why Student Debt Is So High and Forgiving It Doesn’t Fix the Problem245: Is College Worth It?180: Can You Outperform Harvard’s Endowment?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.