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Boston Globe: Harvard's Shake-up After Larry Summers' Failed Derivatives Deals (video)

During the presidency of Larry Summers, Harvard's six-member board was clearly asleep at the wheel when Summers moved much of the university’s basic operating funds into risky derivatives investments, defying the warnings of its professional money managers (including moi). When the economic meltdown hit, $1.8 billion vanished.

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