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[Identification of item], Duke Management Company records, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
The materials were received by the University Archives as a transfer in 1992 and 1993.
Processed by Mike Millner, November 2006
Encoded by Mike Millner, November 2006
Accessions A92-99, A93-109 were merged into one collection, described in this finding aid.
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This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.
In 1989, Duke University's Board of Trustees approved the formation of Duke Management Company (DUMAC) as a separate, non-profit support corporation of Duke University. Solely responsible for managing the University's investment assets, DUMAC operates under a cascading delegation of authority from the Board of Trustees and the DUMAC Board of Directors. DUMAC recommends investment policy and strategy, seeks and analyzes specific opportunities, and manages ongoing operations and activities. Located in nearby off-campus facilities, the professional staff is organized around functional investment areas of public investments, hedged strategies, private investments, and operations/administration. The CEO of DUMAC from its inception until 2000 was Eugene McDonald. During the period these boxes cover, McDonald was also Senior Vice President and University Counsel at Duke; the boxes in this collection therefore also contain papers related to the duties of those offices.
Records include materials pertaining to the Chief Executive Officer's office, including minutes, memoranda outlining proposed agendas, reports on past meetings, draft resolutions, studies, correspondence; staff meetings and memoranda (in Box 1, several folders containing Executive Officers Committee material are labeled "EOC"); and long-range planning initiatives. Other major subjects in the collection include investment, athletics, information technology/computing reorganization, land resources, internal audits, policies, budget forecasts, and compensation. A significant part of the collection (found in boxes 3 and 4) includes materials related to discussion in the late 1980s about possible commercial use for part of Duke Forest. Items related to this discussion include land use plans from a variety of institutions; minutes and agenda of Land Resources Committee meetings; letters for and against development of Duke Forest land; report and recommendations of the Land Resources Committee; minutes of the Urban Land Institute presentation to the CEO's of Duke; literature from development companies; and preliminary and final reports and recommendations of the Land Resources Committee. Beginning with Box 4, items are alphabetized; therefore, information related to DUMAC's investment responsibilities are located throughout the subsequent six boxes. Box 11 begins a new accession group-these items are also alphabetized, but are discontinuous with the previous 10 boxes.
These are searchable subject entries for this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials.
Oversized material related to proposed development of part of Duke Forest was separated out from the main collection and placed in oversize storage.