endowment
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“Narv” Narvekar, the head of Harvard University’s nearly $57 billion endowment, recently told the endowment’s board he plans to retire, according to people familiar with the discussions.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
He had run Columbia University’s endowment immediately before moving to Harvard.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
He more than doubled the share of endowment assets in hedge funds, holdings that helped Harvard outperform almost all of its peers in 2024, according to Markov.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
It closed last year after its endowment came to an end.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
Soon afterward, Kenneth M. Olsen and Barbara A. Schaal of Washington University in St. Louis demonstrated that domesticated manioc’s genetic endowment was derived from flabelli-folia, suggesting the latter was ancestral to it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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