By the time Jane Mendillo walked into HMC's offices in July 2008, she figured some changes needed to be made.

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Jane Mendillo, chief executive of the Harvard Management Co.

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''Private equity has been a top-performing asset class over the past 10 years and will remain part of the portfolio, '' Jane Mendillo, who heads Harvard's endowment, said in a statement to Forbes.

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That would make sense to readers of our Mar. 16 article, which detailed how Harvard's newly installed endowment manager, Jane Mendillo, scrambled for cash in the fall of 2008 to deal with crashing derivatives.

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