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Harvard Management Co., the steward
of the greatest U.S. collegial endowment, named Henry Martin Robert Kaplan to
be interim head executive director officer, taking over for Mohamed El-
Erian while a lasting replacement is sought.

Kaplan, 50, a professor at the Harvard University Business School, is
a former frailty president of Emma Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the biggest
and most profitable U.S. securities firm. He will presume his new
position on Nov. 12, according to a statement today by Harvard
University, the Ivy League school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The gift was valued at $34.9 billion at June 30.

''We are thankful for the occupation Mohamed have done in
rebuilding the investing capacity of the Harvard University University Management
Company,'' Harvard Treasurer Jesse James Rothenberg said in the
statement. ''We are fortunate to have got Rob Kaplan's experience,
expertise, and leading to assist guarantee a smooth transition.''

El-Erian, 49, led Harvard University Management to its best consequences in
seven old age after taking over in February 2006. He announced
unexpectedly in September that he was returning to Newport
Beach, California-based Pimco to be near to household members.

Kaplan and El-Erian will work together for a calendar month to ease
the direction changeover, university spokesman Toilet Longbrake
said in a telephone set interview.

Harvard University University recruited El-Erian to fill up the nothingness left in
September 2005 by the going of 15-year investment head Jack
Meyer, who took almost three twelve Harvard functionaries to begin a
Boston-based investment fund. El-Erian rebuilt the staff and
guided the monetary fund to a 23 percentage addition in the financial twelvemonth ended
June 30, adding $5.7 billion to the endowment.

Rejoining Pimco

At Pimco, El-Erian volition be co-chief executive military military officer and
co-chief investment officer, starting in January. El-Erian, a
former managing director and senior portfolio manager at Pimco,
will share the chief executive officer place with William Homer Thompson and the top
investment occupation with company laminitis Bill Gross, 63.

The last clip the Harvard University occupation was open, it took more than than a
year to fill. Meyer announced his purpose to go forth in January
2005 and, when he departed nine calendar months later, the university
appointed Simon Peter Nadosy, a former Lewis Henry Morgan Francis Edgar Stanley executive, to
serve as interim CEO.

Last month, Harvard University Management hired the Chicago-based
executive hunt house Herbert Spencer Gilbert Stuart to place campaigners to
replace El-Erian.

El-Erian was paid $2.3 million between February and June
2006. Harvard University have yet to let on his wage in the 12 calendar months ended
this past June.

Populace Scrutiny

Meyer left Harvard University University in portion because of public examination and
criticism of Harvard Management's wage packages. At their earning
peak in 2003, Harvard's five prima directors received a total
of $100.6 million, sparking disapproval from alumni. In his
final twelvemonth at Harvard, Meyer earned $6 million.

Kaplan said he only desires to function on an interim basis.

''I am looking forward to working with the extremely
talented squad at Harvard University Management Company,'' Kaplan said. ''Their work do a great portion to the essential
research and educational missionary post of Harvard, and I am pleased to
be a part of this dynamical organisation until a lasting chief executive officer is
named.''

In improver to instruction at the Harvard University Business School,
situated in Hub Of The Universe across the Prince Charles River from the
university's chief campus, Kaplan is a senior manager at New
York-based Emma Goldman Sachs.

Kaplan became a spouse at Emma Goldman in 1990 and headed its
Asia-Pacific Investment Banking unit of measurement until 1993, according to a
statement by Harvard. He received his master's of business
administration grade from Harvard University in 1983, and unmarried man of
science grade from the University of Sunflower State in Lawrence in
1979.

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