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Liquidity and Leverage
In one sense , the projected 30 percent decline in the value of the endowment is Harvard’s financial problem. If the invested assets earn the expected return over time, distributing funds from a $36.9-billion endowment at a typical rate (about 5 percent) …
Issue: July-August 2009
How the Enlightenment Led to Colonialism
It’s not immediately clear , as William Kentridge starts to play an excerpt from his 2005 animated film rendition of The Magic Flute , how the 1791 Mozart opera connects to the topic of his second Norton Lecture, “A Brief History of Colonial Revolts.” On …
Creative Ventures
If any place exemplifies the pleasures of shopping locally, it’s Ouimille. The stores, in Cambridge and Boston, feel like a creative fête, a 24/7 kaleidoscopic fashion week array of audacious clothing and accessories. It’s a creative environment that …
Issue: November-December 2024
Ways and Means: Harvard's Wage Debate
In partial response to the "living-wage" sit-in at Massachusetts Hall last spring and demands for a $10.25 hourly minimum wage for the University's lowest-paid employees, then president Neil L. Rudenstine appointed a Harvard Committee on Employment and …
Issue: November-December 2001
Harvard Confers 11 Undergraduate Degrees
Harvard has conferred degrees on 11 undergraduates who were denied their diplomas on May 23 because they were suspended or placed on probation for violating University standards pertaining to the statement of rights and responsibilities for actions …
Cryptic Puzzle: “#2”
Download the puzzle Download the hints Download the solution "#2" solvers (The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically.) Itai Pines – Portland, OR Stephen Throop – Grover, NC Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY …
The State of the Pandemic
For all the havoc and death caused by the coronavirus during the past 20 months, enough time has passed to reflect on a few significant issues. How will humanity cope with the rest of this pandemic—and prepare to respond better to the inevitable next one? …
Issue: September-October 2021
Faculty Honored for Teaching and Advising
At the May 5 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting, dean Michael D. Smith announced the following annual recognitions for teaching, advising, and mentoring. Harvard College Professors Recipients of FAS’s highest honor for faculty members who make …
Seeking a Flag-Bearer!
For more than 100 years, the Harvard College graduate who had attended the most Harvard-Yale football games carried to The Game a small red silk pennant as a talisman of luck. The Little Red Flag was waved by nine men from 1884 through 2001. At that time …
Issue: March-April 2020
Honor Roll
We recognize four outstanding contributors to Harvard Magazine for their work on readers’ behalf in 2014, and happily confer on each a $1,000 honorarium. Adam Kirsch Contributing editor Adam Kirsch ’97—critic, essayist, poet—has long crafted beautifully …
Issue: January-February 2015
Hybrid Work’s Sweet Spot
Does hybrid work harm the bottom line? As organizations across the United States wrestle with post-COVID office policies, researchers at Harvard Business School (HBS) present evidence for an optimally productive blended office-and-home schedule. Their …
Issue: January-February 2023
Harvard Endowment Rises to $36.4 Billion
Updated 9-24-14; see below. HIGHLIGHTS: The endowment's value stood at $36.4 billion as of June 30 (within a half-billion dollars of the peak value realized in fiscal year 2008, just before the financial crisis and ensuing recession), up $3.7 billion …
Civil War Reawakened
A new book, 1861: The Civil War Awakening, by Adam Goodheart ’92, recently reviewed in Harvard Magazine, was also the subject of a searching, favorable review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Goodheart's volume, years in the making, explores …
College to Impose Sanctions on Final Club Members
Citing their history of gender discrimination and negative influence on campus life, University President Drew Faust announced in an e-mail today that Harvard will ban members of historically male final clubs and other unrecognized, single-gender social …
Hiram Hunn Awards
Seven alumni received Hiram S. Hunn Memorial Schools and Scholarships Awards from the Harvard College Office of Admissions and Financial Aid on October 2 for their volunteer work: recruiting and interviewing prospective undergraduates. William L. (“Ike”) …
Issue: November-December 2015