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Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg's Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113)
- ▶ 20:35 Steve Rattner Harvard is still trying to untangle some of it that they probably shouldn't have done, so we had a clean piece of paper, a clean balance sheet.
Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)
- ▶ 6:50 Jay Girotto Later went out to the East Coast and went to college, both at Harvard undergrad and Harvard Business School. 2 times in the scene
David Druley – Structure into Action at Cambridge Associates (Capital Allocators, EP. 106)
- ▶ 12:54 David Druley Jim Bailey and Hunter Lewis came out of Harvard, wanted to take what they learned. 2 times in the scene
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 39:49 Mike Novogratz Harvard and Stanford are in.
Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102)
- ▶ 18:08 Jon Wertheim You, you wouldn't say I like Harvard and Yale, or I think Macs and PCs are both awesome.
Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
Jon Hirtle – The Pioneer of OCIO (Capital Allocators, EP.98)
- ▶ 53:01 Ted Seides I mean, Harvard did that a long time ago.
Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (Capital Allocators, EP.87)
- ▶ 6:14 Rahul Moodgal I did a stint at Harvard, University of Illinois, Urban and Champaign, University of Washington, Seattle, and University of Hawaii.
Chris Ailman – CalSTRS' Venerable CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.86)
- ▶ 8:17 Chris Ailman And I always like to say it doesn't take a Harvard grad to figure out it's the flawed business model, but I'm just dumb enough to keep trying to make it work as efficient as possible.
- ▶ 52:16 Chris Ailman It might work at Harvard, might work for David Swenson at Yale, but does it work for our size and our governmental structure and rules?
- ▶ 1:08:16 Chris Ailman It was a blessing in that I happened to be at Harvard University, met up with a fellow who's there who was a 2 times in the scene
Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85)
- ▶ 5:56 Steve Kuhn So I went to Harvard, studied actually game theory, part of economics at Harvard, studied under Professor Schelling, who ended up winning Nobel for his work on game theory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:07 Steve Kuhn I was, I went to Harvard. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:39 Steve Kuhn The rough equivalent is, you know, Beida is the Harvard, and Tsinghua is the MIT of China.
Brent Beshore - Micro Buyout Adventur.es (Capital Allocators, EP.79)
- ▶ 11:12 Brent Beshore And, you know, it took a lot of research to kind of come to conclusions, but then seeing a lot of this reinforcing information coming out of Stanford and Harvard around search funds, which is kind of a similar type thesis to attacking in a…
Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
- ▶ 35:30 Michael Schwimer So I did some, some digging on Jason, and I found out he went to Harvard and was a two-year president of the Advanced Analytic for Sport Club, and interned for Daryl Morey and Sam with the Rockets, and really helped build that system the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:08 Michael Schwimer Kind of easy to assemble a team, to be honest with you, because you look at these guys, Harvard, all these brilliant people, and they can go make half a million dollars a year on Wall Street, but a lot of them make 50 grand a year working…
Sarah Williamson – Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (Capital Allocators, EP.67)
- ▶ 52:32 Sarah Williamson So probably my favorite sports, so I don't always admit this, but I played rugby in college, and I played for Williams College, and we had a, not the biggest team, we were a small team, and one year we played Harvard, and probably the…
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Josh is an innovative thinker whose ideas have found their way to columns in Forbes, lectures at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, and NYU, and storms on Twitter.
- ▶ 42:41 Josh Wolfe And so in the biotech arena, we would look and say, okay, everybody in the public market some years ago was talking about vaccines being totally taboo and uninteresting, and that actually turned us on and said, okay, let's go find the best…
Roz Hewsenian –Helmsley Trust's Chief of People and Process (Capital Allocators, EP.63)
- ▶ 1:16:52 Roz Hewsenian It's a New York State school, and the year that I applied to Oneonta, it was harder to get in there than it was to Harvard, and it was the height of the Vietnam War, and everybody was going to college, and somehow or another, they accepted…
Manny Friedman – Non-Linear Financial Systems (Capital Allocators, EP.61)
- ▶ 21:11 Manny Friedman That's the basic gene editing technique that came out of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard, but it's just mind-boggling what the implications are, and so I look at everything.
Anthony Scaramucci – It's Called a Mooch (Capital Allocators, EP.60)
- ▶ 54:59 Anthony Scaramucci Hedge funds right now are out of fashion, but yet some of the smartest investors in the world, your former employer, the Yale Endowment, has a lot of hedge fund exposure, and so does Harvard, and so does some of the greatest
Kim Lew – The Carnegie Way (Capital Allocators, EP.52)
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 10:43 Jim Williams They had some new trustees who came in who were also trustees at Harvard,
Steven Galbraith – In the Boardroom (Capital Allocators, EP.48)
- ▶ 17:09 Steve Galbraith Larry Bacow, who's now the president of Harvard, world-class economist, uh, very financially literate, and Jim Stern, who ran a private equity firm, Cyprus, unbelievably well-versed on finance, to Tony Monaco, who's a world-class…
- ▶ 18:51 Steve Galbraith It's about 15%, so it's much lower than a Yale or Harvard, and so 2 times in the scene
It's Not About the Money (Capital Allocators, EP.45)
Annie Duke - Improving Decision Making [Capital Allocators, EP.39]
- ▶ 17:46 Annie Duke I'm a Harvard professor.
Bill Spitz – Seasoned Commodore (Capital Allocators, EP.37)
- ▶ 6:05 Bill Spitz Now, Harvard had obviously evolved.
- ▶ 38:31 Ted Seides And some of this reminds me of timber because, you know, I remember when the endowments, it was really Harvard first, probably Harvard and Vanderbilt, but that started adopting timber way back when. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- ▶ 11:36 Michael Mauboussin It's a really interesting question, and by the way, I should just mention that the background for all this is some, some really great work by Stephen Jay Gould, the, the late biologist from Harvard, and he wrote a book in 1996 called Full…
- ▶ 35:22 Michael Mauboussin The main guy that comes to mind is Richard Hackman as a professor at Harvard.
Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- ▶ 9:58 Ted Seides I ended up two, became three, became five, and eventually I felt the call to go to business school and went to Harvard and then did some direct investing for the couple of years after that.
Ellen Ellison – Playing to Your Strengths (Capital Allocators, EP.27)
- ▶ 8:25 Ellen Ellison I was blessed to be in Bruce Greenwald's first class at Columbia after he came from Harvard, and Bruce Greenwald is one of the best people you could ever meet in academia or in the business profession, and he really just decided that I was…
David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
- ▶ 4:47 Ted Seides At Harvard University, Dartmouth University, the University of Texas Investment Management Company, TIFF, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, each multi-billion dollar pools of assets.
- ▶ 26:45 David Barrett You know, over the last three years, Stanford, Harvard, UTIMCO, that universe of candidates is going to look a lot different, and Canada's going to be a lot smaller subset than doing something for a, you know, a three to four billion… 2 times in the scene
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 21:35 Scott Malpass Now, the bigger endowments were able to execute it faster, because they, they were, just had the resources, so the Harvard, Yale, Princeton.
Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
- ▶ 25:36 Jim Dunn It's not Harvard. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:49 Jim Dunn And I think if you look at the Harvard and Yale model, they're very different, right?
- ▶ 59:28 Jim Dunn They're really good at saying I'm a value with a catalyst and I went to Penn or Yale or Harvard, but they're not really good at saying why I'm a hedge fund manager.
Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20)
- ▶ 7:08 Kip McDaniel He hired me to write an article on the Harvard Endowment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:19 Ted Seides And you could make the case that it could be a positive sum game, that if Yale and Harvard are both doing well, then there's more people who can be educated, there's more financial aid, whatever, whatever the case may be.
- ▶ 1:04:17 Kip McDaniel Um, one of the most important people in my life, he actually was the most important people in a lot of people's lives in finance, is a guy named Harry Parker, who was the Harvard rowing coach for 53 years.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 12:44 Chris Douvos So when I was at Monitor, my office mate was this amazing woman, Jody, and she had been president of the Harvard Womanist House, and they were, you know, they were W-M-Y-N, they weren't woe men, they were women, right?
Andrew Golden – Beyond the Long Term (Capital Allocators, EP.13)
- ▶ 20:27 Andy Golden You know, this is the issues that Harvard had, and it's even worse than that.
Larry Kochard – Endowment Professor (Capital Allocators, EP.11)
- ▶ 18:31 Ted Seides The, the classic dichotomy from the past was Yale and Harvard, where when Jack Meyer was at Harvard, it was mostly an internal effort. 3 times in the scene
Charley Ellis – Multiple Ways to Win (Capital Allocators, EP.08)
- ▶ 50:37 Charlie Ellis Harvard and Princeton haven't been hurt by Yale.
- ▶ 1:14:21 Charlie Ellis I've had the privilege of teaching at Harvard and at Yale and at Princeton.
The Bet with Buffett (Capital Allocators, EP.05)
- ▶ 1:02:29 Patrick O'Shaughnessy I have focused thus far on the lower, maybe you could even call it micro cap, private equity, or really private equity as, as the Harvard professors called it, which I like that name as well.
André Perold – Academic Practitioner (Capital Allocators, EP.02)
- ▶ 5:09 Ted Seides Andre had a distinguished career teaching investment management at Harvard, and is a legendary master of the case study classroom. 4 times in the scene
Steven Galbraith – Five Tool Player (Capital Allocators, EP.01)
- ▶ 1:09:50 Steve Galbraith Only 10% of 10 to 13% of the university's operating budget, whereas a Harvard or Yale would be a third.
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