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David Swensen's guide to sleeping soundly Financial wisdom for troubled times—plus strong opinions on the current crisis—from Yale's in-house Warren Buffett. Marc Gunther ’73, a contributing writer to Fortune magazine, blogs at marcgunther.com. Mark Ostow Swensen's recipe for investing David Swensen has built Yale's exceptional endowment returns largely through categories of investments that aren't available to or aren't smart for an individual investor. (They include private equity, such as venture capital and buyout firms, and illiquid markets like timber. For more on Swensen's strat...

Scenes from a fake emergency School of Nursing students learn by doing in a disaster simulation, complete with blood, chaos, and interfering bystanders. Cathy Shufro teaches writing at Yale. Mark Ostow As students enter the scene, they can hear the sirens of approaching ambulances. The room is smoky. Some of the café customers are screaming. The students’ first task is to find everyone who is injured. There will be four iterations of this collapsed-ceiling disaster, and in all, 118 students will participate. Now they’ll find out how well they do in this kind of crisis. View full i...