UMass's Forbes a reluctant leader
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AMHERST -- There is no out of bounds. When a deflected pass flew over the scorer's table at practice Tuesday, three Minutemen raced after it, wrestling for the ball in the Mullins Center seats. University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Travis Ford would have it no other way. Ferocity: That's one thing he's looking for.
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A team starting four sophomores, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen have played with a certain playground style all year. They climb the ladder, then go down the slide. They spend many hours on the seesaw. The big wins have been followed by big losses.
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Harvard University's endowment paid its two top investment managers about $25 million each last year, less than the pair earned a year ago, but still enough to irritate critics who consider the compensation excessive.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It had been seven years since the University of Massachusetts had won a basketball game in the Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, which is either intimate or claustrophobic, depending on your bias. It had been even longer since the Minutemen had so much at stake.
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While the future of Nicholas M. MaounisÂ fund remains uncertain, his reputation has suffered a severe blow.
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Multi-millionaire Malcolm Glazer is known as a shrewd investor whose love of sport is eclipsed by his canny business sense. Described by Forbes magazine as having an âeye for value
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Disappointment? Yes. Anger? No. University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Travis Ford said that was his reaction when he learned his alma mater, the University of Kentucky, had invoked a $50,000 buyout of its Nov. 24 nonconference game against the Minutemen at TD Banknorth Garden.
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By Henry J. Waters III, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 12--The raging debate over capital spending on college campuses has largely obscured equally important problems with the omnibus higher education bill being promoted by Republican Sen. Gary Nodler.
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Gustave Manso , a Brazilian-born finance professor who joined the faculty at MIT's Sloan School of Management this fall, is researching a problem that's not always considered a priority in executive suites: how to reward failure.
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Most schools don't have the funds to follow the lead of well-endowed universities.
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Massachusetts appears to have lost out on attracting a key life sciences project to the state. Kofi Jones, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, said the state's package of economic incentives was not enough for the unnamed company, which decided to look elsewhere. Peter Abair, director of economic development for the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, described ...
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CAMBRIDGE -- As he prepares to retire as dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management this spring, Richard Schmalensee is throwing out a challenge to fellow business school leaders and his yet-to-be-named successor: Come down from the ivory tower.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology officials have tapped an outsider, David C. Schmittlein, deputy dean of the elite Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, to lead MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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Brockton's Cory Quirk does not believe in the sophomore jinx. The University of Massachusetts hockey player is in the midst of a stellar season in Amherst.
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Though just teenagers, the applicants to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are a scarily accomplished lot. They have started businesses and published academic research. One built a working nuclear reactor in his garage. In their high schools, they have led every extracurricular club and mastered the SAT.
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The status-seekers in menÂs college basketball juggle national exposure, money and the disadvantage of playing top-ranked opponents on the road.
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The man nominated to lead the state's flagship university is an oilman, not an academic. In a sea of Ph.Ds, he has only a bachelor's degree. But he does offer this: A reputation as a formidable fundraiser.