Article: Defining moment for Harvard Management

The issue of compensation continues to rattle Harvard Management Co., threatening to alter the very way the university manages its money.

The big question: Can Harvard Management, for all its success in overseeing the university's $13 billion endowment, stay as it is or must it change?

In the latest sign of change, Harvard Management says the group that oversees $1.5 billion in private equity and real estate investments is departing to set up a new firm. The move follows an announcement last month that Jonathon S. Jacobson, Harvard Management's top equity manager, was leaving to start a private hedge fund for wealthy clients. Both the Private Capital Group, run by Michael Eisenson, and ...

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