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Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
- ▶ 1:13:16 Jeremy Grantham On a ten-year basis, we were beating Harvard and Yale and Princeton with our portfolio.
Ryan Lovell – Chainlink: The Infrastructure Pipes for Multi-Chain Finance (EP.491)
- ▶ 4:57 Ryan Lovell So Central Pennsylvania didn't really have Wall Street aspirations, but back in the day, if you didn't go to quote unquote the target schools, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, it was hard to break into that type of job right at a college.
Bobby Jain – Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund First Principles at Jain Global (EP.487)
- ▶ 24:16 Bobby Jain One of the things that I do separately from my day job is I've sat on the board of numerous investment committees, including two Ivy League, Harvard, and Cornell.
- ▶ 58:58 Ted Seides You mentioned earlier being on the boards of the investment committees of Harvard and Cornell.
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 11:00 Lane MacDonald Ultimately, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to Harvard and play hockey there.
- ▶ 11:57 Lane MacDonald I almost had to stop playing hockey at Harvard my senior year. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:40 Lane MacDonald The other piece for me in that situation, Ted, I received financial aid when I went to Harvard.
- ▶ 24:33 Lane MacDonald I love Harvard. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:41 Ted Seides When you were thinking about bringing together the best of what you saw at a place like Harvard, the best of what you saw at a big family office, what were the most important principles that you encapsulated that you wanted to bring to the…
- ▶ 37:27 Ted Seides You saw some of that as a rebuild at Harvard, Fidelity. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:14 Ted Seides So as opposed to Harvard or Johnson Family Office, you come to SES is part of a business.
- ▶ 1:02:15 Lane MacDonald Hence, when I had the opportunity to go to Harvard, they leaned in. 2 times in the scene
Ashby Monk – Total Portfolio Approach and the Future of Asset Owners (EP.480)
- ▶ 50:09 Ashby Monk Most graduates of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Berkeley, they barely know what a pension fund is, let alone a sovereign fund, let alone the difference between a reserve investment corporation and a stabilization fund. 2 times in the scene
Daniel Mahr – Glass Box Quant at MDT Advisers (EP.472)
- ▶ 4:12 Daniel Mahr I was a freshman at Harvard in 1998 going into 1999.
Dave Thornton – Unlocking Venture Access Through Stock Options at Vested (EP.469)
- ▶ 7:18 Dave Thornton There's a Harvard professor named Kirk Goldsberry who pioneered it, and we've instantiated it for these teams.
Mason Morfit and Rob Hale – Quiet Activism at ValueAct (EP.462)
- ▶ 7:38 Mason Morfit Richard Thaler was at Harvard doing behavioral economics, but that wasn't really a thing.
Jon Madorsky – Navigating the Evolution of Private Equity Secondaries (EP.448)
- ▶ 13:58 Ted Seides Very recently, we've had these announcements of some of the longest standing LPs putting big portfolios up for secondaries, most notably Yale and Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:12 Ted Seides You have now potentially real bellwether announcements of secondary sales at Yale and Harvard.
Ed Grefenstette – Bold Allocations at The Dietrich Foundation (EP.437)
- ▶ 23:24 Ed Grefenstette And when he was first telling me about this, I told him, he realized we're going to be a Harvard case study one way or the other.
Michael Choe - Atomization of Private Equity Decisions at Charlesbank (EP.432)
- ▶ 13:00 Mike Choe Our firm was started inside Harvard Management Company, which is the umbrella organization that managed the Harvard endowment. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:50 Mike Choe If I were to give you the most important plot points of our firm's evolution over this period of time, Harvard was a deep believer in finding value in investments through superior research. 3 times in the scene
Matt Bank - "GEMs" of Risk, Asset Allocation, and Manager Selection (EP.419)
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 47:45 David Salem It was Harvard and Yale, Stanford to a lesser extent, some very, very wealthy families.
- ▶ 1:06:47 David Salem And Jack had more or less recently arrived at Harvard to be the CEO of Harvard Management Company.
Rob Small and Anil Seetharam - Public Equity Adjacent to Private Equity at Stockbridge (EP.397)
Ben Hunt - The Stories that Drive Markets (EP.393)
Alexis Ohanian – From Reddit to 776, a Technology Company that Deploys Venture Capital (EP.388)
- ▶ 12:18 Alexis Ohanian And then his then girlfriend saw that his icon, this guy named Paul Graham was giving a talk at Harvard and
Dan Tennebaum - The Case for India at India Capital (EP.387)
- ▶ 15:53 Dan Tannenbaum I ended up applying to business school and was, I think, one of three people in that year accepted to Harvard directly from India. 2 times in the scene
David Morehead – Top Down Allocation at Baylor (EP.381)
- ▶ 39:41 David Morehead I am coming around to the view that things are different when you have very, very big portfolios, so Yale or Harvard, for example. 2 times in the scene
Shiloh Bates – CLO Investing at Flat Rock Global (EP.379)
- ▶ 2:58 Shiloh Bates So I went to graduate school at Harvard, and after graduating, I went to work for Wells Fargo as an investment banking analyst.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 7:37 Magnus Grimeland Luckily, actually, a few of my friends from high school were in the senior year at Harvard at that point of time.
- ▶ 22:51 Magnus Grimeland We get more applicants now in a year than Harvard, Stanford, and MIT combined.
- ▶ 1:04:00 Magnus Grimeland And I also want to mention, at my time going into Harvard, I had these tremendous classes with Andre Schleifer, who's a behavioral economist there and political economist.
Marcia Page – Corn Capitalist with a Velvet Hammer at Värde and MPowered (EP.355)
- ▶ 47:48 Marcia Page So my natural inclination is to start digging into the data and really understanding why we have this conundrum of lack of senior female leadership really was influenced by a book called What Works by a Harvard professor by the name of…
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 51:21 Allison Thacker And it's a very difficult thing to do, unintended consequences and such, but that was the area of most interest to me, I think, when I was studying at Harvard and thinking through that, how do incentives drive behavior?
Finny Kuruvilla – The Fourth Source of Alpha at Eventide (EP.343)
- ▶ 6:19 Finny Kuruvilla So I almost threw in the towel, but my roommate at the time, he was doing his PhD at Harvard in economics, and he gave me a couple of Peter Lynch books, and he said, you should really read these books.
Sonya Sawtell-Rickson – Total Portfolio Approach at Australian Superannuation HESTA (EP.342)
- ▶ 23:27 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson We're also part of a pilot program with the Harvard called the impact weighted accounts, which is really trying to start to translate externalities, both positive and negative of companies into financial measurements.
Don Mullen –Single-Family Rentals at Pretium (Capital Allocators, EP.324)
- ▶ 25:54 Don Mullen And whether you look at Stanford, Harvard, Fannie Mae, almost any economic analyst will tell you we're short somewhere between three and seven million houses.
Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
- ▶ 22:49 Matt Breitfelder The people at Harvard who teach about how to optimize a negotiation, turning those tools into things that teams and companies can use to get better, to actually be really good at conflict, and to use debate very constructively so that it's…
Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- ▶ 22:08 Adam Shapiro There's a professor at Harvard, Boris Kreuzberg, who has written a great book on portability of talent, which influenced my thinking on this.
Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
Ashby Monk – Investor Identity, Navigation, and Resilience (Capital Allocators, EP.312)
- ▶ 28:05 Ashby Monk By the way, the problem I have with the fact that not everybody knows this is all these technologists at places like Stanford or Princeton or Harvard, they don't even know that these pension funds are spending this much on this technology.
Rod Wong – Empty Rooms: Innovation in Biotech at RTW (Capital Allocators, EP. 310)
Mario Giannini & John Toomey – Private Equity Panel (Capital Allocators EP.309)
- ▶ 50:04 John Toomey I want to invest like Harvard and Yale and CalPERS.
Coach Paul Assaiante – Leading People to Greatness (Capital Allocators, EP.307)
- ▶ 18:50 Paul Assaiante We threw everything we had at Harvard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 Paul Assaiante And then on March six, we're playing against Harvard, and you say, coach, what do I need to do today?
- ▶ 23:44 Ted Seides You've gotten to the point where you're playing Yale, you're playing Harvard.
- ▶ 42:10 Paul Assaiante We beat Harvard at home in a duel match for the first time in history. 3 times in the scene
Charley Ellis - Figuring Out Investing and Vanguard (Capital Allocators, EP.286)
- ▶ 19:14 Charlie Ellis Harvard, on the other hand, has every tub on its own bottom, so the Faculty of Arts and Sciences gets
Frank Brosens – Culture and Partnership at Taconic Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.282)
- ▶ 14:47 Frank Brosens When I started running it, looked to hire a number two and found a guy coming out of Harvard undergrad by the name of Eric Mindich.
Melanie Pickett – Modern Technology in the Investment Office at Northern Trust (Capital Allocators, EP.281)
- ▶ 8:37 Melanie Pickett For investment managers that were typically either single asset class or single function, but then these institutions end up tying together these very, very complex portfolios through a series of systems that weren't really meant to do…
Jack Sommers – Core Fixed Income at IR+M (Manager Meetings, EP.39)
- ▶ 5:47 Jack Somers I went to Harvard.
Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- ▶ 7:09 Ted Seides So most of your academic background is one of those classic acclaimed Harvard, Harvard Law School.
Andy Acker - Empty Rooms: Investing in Biotech at Janus Henderson (Capital Allocators, EP.274)
- ▶ 3:11 Andy Acker So I studied biochemistry as an undergrad at Harvard, and I actually studied biochemistry and economics.
- ▶ 24:46 Andy Acker And when you think about the therapeutic side, I studied biochemistry as an undergrad at Harvard, and I'm the least educated member of our therapeutics team.
Carla Harris – Pearls of Career Wisdom (Capital Allocators, EP.267)
- ▶ 4:39 Ted Seides In the last few years, Carla added board seats to her professional portfolio and currently serves on a host of boards, including SEO, Harvard University, Walmart, and MetLife.
- ▶ 8:07 Carla Harris However, by the time I was a junior and senior in high school, I was taking all honors classes, and the kids around me started talking to each other, not me, about, did you send in your application to Yale, or I just finished my Harvard… 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:59 Carla Harris Jacksonville, from the South, woman, Black, Harvard, all the things that made me mean.
- ▶ 41:53 Ted Seides Now, I know you've sat on a number of incredibly interesting board seats increasingly over the last couple of years from Sesame Workshop to Harvard to Walmart, Cummings, MetLife.
Regan Bozman – Defensible Moats in Crypto at Lattice Capital (Manager Meetings, 34)
- ▶ 5:43 Regan Bozman I went to Harvard undergrad, studied history and economics, and I think they were kind of had my first like in claims of entrepreneurship.
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 49:42 Ashvin Chhabra You're in an arms race with Stanford and Harvard.
Chris Voss – Listening, Human Nature, and Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.252)
- ▶ 38:58 Chris Voss I'm a firm believer in this stat from Sean Acker, a Harvard psychologist.
John Barber – The Art of Co-Investing at Cohesive Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.31)
- ▶ 5:55 John Barber I had a father who was a PhD from Harvard in sociology and taught at Columbia University for 35 years, and probably much more amazingly, I had a mother who was a PhD in Harvard in history and worked her whole life, including 17 years at… 2 times in the scene
Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
- ▶ 16:50 Andrew Milgram Not everybody has a Harvard MBA.
Steve Papa – Entrepreneur's Perspective on Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 13 (Capital Allocators, EP.244)
- ▶ 10:29 Steve Papa One of my good friends from undergrad crashed in my room at Harvard, and he brought up an idea that we started hashing.
- ▶ 45:19 Steve Papa And the other would be Felda Hardyman, who was my professor at Harvard, who went on the back-end ECA, and we still work on projects today.
Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek – Renegade Spin-Out in the Supercritical Stage, Venture is Eating the Investment World 11 (Capital Allocators, EP. 242)
- ▶ 54:30 Renata Quintini I was about to quit law school because it was really boring, and he, number one, not only, like, challenged me intellectually, which was really fun, he had an LLM from Harvard, and he was the first person, like, have you ever considered…
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 31:17 Sean O'Sullivan We have adjunct partners that come in, and they're very distinguished folks from Stanford and MIT and Harvard and whatnot.
David Rosenthal and Ben Gilbert – Acquiring an Industry. Venture is Eating the Investment World 1 (Capital Allocators, EP.229)
- ▶ 13:13 David Rosenthal Did he go to Harvard?
Richard Tedlow - Charismatic Business Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.222)
- ▶ 10:55 Richard Tedlow So, you know, I didn't want the job because when you're tenured at Harvard, you can't be fired no matter how dumb you are.
- ▶ 48:50 Richard Tedlow The most important thing you can do in a class, either at Apple or at Harvard or anywhere else, is to listen.
Satya Patel – Homebrew (Manager Meetings, EP.18)
- ▶ 50:51 Satya Patel But they'll have graduated, so to speak, and develop enough of a track record in history and scale where they can attract capital from the James Irvine Institution and Harvard and Yale and Princeton and folks like that who are long-term…
Savneet Singh – The Operator/Investor whose Software is Feeding the World (Capital Allocators, EP.220)
- ▶ 56:51 Savneet Singh You know, where most immigrant Asian parents in particular, like go to school, get straight grades, try to go to Harvard.
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 5:49 Barry Sternlicht So I only applied to two schools, Harvard and Stanford. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:15 Barry Sternlicht Bill Solomon was the entrepreneurial finance professor at Harvard, and it was also a fellow named Don McNamara.
Leda Braga – Systematica Investments (Manager Meetings, EP.10)
- ▶ 58:13 Leda Braga So stumbling on happiness is written by a man called Daniel Gilbert, and he's a Harvard professor.
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 11:53 Sujit Indap Had been a PhD student at MIT in the late eighties and then became a junior professor at Harvard.
Private Equity Masters 4: David Rubenstein – Carlyle Group (Capital Allocators, EP.203)
- ▶ 1:00:47 David Rubenstein Well, the mistakes that I made and not pursuing Mark Zuckerberg when he was at Harvard, when my now son-in-law was prepared to introduce me to him, or when we kind of sold our stake in Amazon at the IPO.
Private Equity Master 2: John Connaughton – Bain Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.201)
- ▶ 27:39 John Connaughton There's a lot that we're not in, and frankly, we weren't even in real estate, even though we tried for all 30 of my years up until a couple years ago when we actually took over Harvard's real estate business.
- ▶ 58:53 John Connaughton Actually, it used to be a Harvard class.
Charley Ellis – The Magic of David Swensen (Capital Allocators, EP.197)
- ▶ 53:26 Charlie Ellis Paul Cabot's legacy from when he was senior partner at State Street Research and Management, managing corporate pension funds and also the Harvard Endowment,
Jeff Housenbold – Inside Softbank Vision Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.186)
- ▶ 41:09 Jeff Hausenbold You went to Brown or you went to Harvard or you went to Princeton or you went to McGill.
David Baran and Kazuhiko Shibata – Friendly Activism in Japan at Symphony (Capital Allocators, EP.176)
- ▶ 11:46 Kazuhiko Shibata And then Nomura has, say, scholarship program, which will send young employees to overseas schools, like Harvard or Yale.
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 51:38 Paul Salem And so we were proving that it wasn't only good for these young adults, but it's actually good for the companies because we could prove to them they were losing money by hiring the, the hut shop from Harvard.
Diversity Equity & Inclusion 5: Daryn Dodson – Training and Action at Illumen Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.168)
- ▶ 25:04 Daryn Dodson Jennifer Eberhardt, and implicit bias social psychology from Harvard, and the other, Dr.
Joel Greenblatt – Common Sense for Value at Gotham Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.165)
- ▶ 43:20 Joel Greenblatt So if we said, let's make it like Harvard or even harder, you submit an investment idea.
Annie Duke – How to Decide (Capital Allocators, EP.156)
- ▶ 1:06:38 Annie Duke It was some wonderful work by Richard Zechhauser and Dan Levy at Harvard.
Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155)
- ▶ 26:37 Morgan Housel Went to Harvard and got an MBA from University of Chicago and was a vice chairman at Merrill Lynch and went bankrupt around the same time that this bumbling country bumpkin gas station attendant left his fortune at charity. 2 times in the scene
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 1: Jacob Walthour – A Blueprint for Diversity (Capital Allocators, EP.151)
- ▶ 26:44 Jake Walthour That they didn't think their African-American that they selected out of Harvard or Yale or Princeton could actually have success, or they would have a lower probability of success.
Matthew Granade – Inside Data Science at Point72 (First Meeting, EP.22)
- ▶ 5:40 Matthew Granade Went to Harvard to college where I was either into or obsessed with journalism.
Sustainable Investing 10: Hiro Mizuno – Changing the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.148)
- ▶ 29:33 Hiro Mizuno That's a concept which actually written by the some of the financial academics many, many years ago, but according to Howard Watson, GPS probably the first one trying to bring it into their practice.
- ▶ 55:17 Hiro Mizuno As you probably see my, some people may see my Twitter accounts, but I agreed with the Harvard, Oxford, and now Cambridge to become their executive fellow on the agreement so that I can contribute to bring more sustainability ESG agenda…
Sustainable Investing 8: Lauren Taylor Wolfe – Activist Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.146)
- ▶ 30:05 Lauren Taylor Wolfe Again, we really like the SASB materiality map, but there's a great professor at Harvard.
Daylian Cain – Master Class in Negotiations (Capital Allocators, EP.138)
- ▶ 1:04:56 Daylian Cain And it said Princeton on the front, and on the back, this is gonna sound awful, thanks, no thanks, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford. 2 times in the scene
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 23:34 Sandra Robertson And also we had a lot of help from Jack at Harvard as well, because they were the last big endowment to consolidate.
Doug Phillips – Middle of the Fairway at the University of Rochester (Capital Allocators, EP.123)
- ▶ 54:24 Doug Phillips There's a professor at Harvard who wrote about this.
Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- ▶ 9:58 Dan Rasmussen Bridgewater is like, take MIT and Harvard's economics department and Stanford and Caltech's comp sci department and have them run by a cult leader and shift that all together, and you've got Bridgewater.
Ted Seides – A Rational Reminder (Capital Allocators, EP.121)
- ▶ 5:06 Benjamin Felix Our, our guest today was, uh, Ted Situs, and he's, uh, he's the host of the Capital Allocators podcast, which some of you may have listened to, but he's a, I don't know what you'd call him, a classically impressive guy, studied at Yale,…
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 14:21 Gregory Zuckerman He broke code for the government, so I'm skipping around here, but basically grew up middle class, Boston suburb, got a PhD at Berkeley in mathematics, went to MIT before that, then he taught at MIT and Harvard, and he's an interesting guy…
Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- ▶ 7:01 Anne Martin She was actually married to the Harvard coach, Harry Parker.
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