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Harvard Endowment’s Sweeping Overhaul
In his first annual letter , disseminated in September, Harvard Management Company (HMC) president and CEO Stephen Blyth described both sluggish recent investment returns and—far more consequentially—significant changes in asset allocation and investment …
Adams House Renewal Begins
On June 3 , construction began on the renewal of Adams House, marking the start of a project slated to take place in three phases spanning four years , to be completed by August 2023. Adams is the sixth House to be renewed under a multi-decade renewal …
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s Public Health Address
My warm greetings and congratulations to all 2021 graduates of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, to Dean Michelle Williams, and to all faculty, family, and friends. I want to start by thanking Dean Williams and the School of Public Health for …
Remaking the Grid
Paolo Pasco ’22 was still a high-school freshman when he learned that one of his crossword puzzles had been accepted for publication by The New York Times . “I was just getting out of gym class,” he recalls, “and I saw the subject line “crossword yes” …
Issue: March-April 2019
Rick Lowe Questions the Concept of “Value” at GSD Class Day
As a young artist in the early 1990s, Rick Lowe had just completed a painting about police brutality when a high-school student stopped by his Houston studio. Lowe considered the work as an “exciting moment” in his career, but his visitor had a different …
Artist Rick Lowe to Headline Graduate School of Design Class Day
Rick Lowe, a pioneering public artist, will speak at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day on May 27. Lowe, a 2002 Loeb Fellow at the GSD, is best known for his two decades of work with Project Row Houses (PRH). He founded the community arts and …
“Harvard Guy” Ryan Fitzpatrick Rides High in the NFL
Led by quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05, the resurgent Buffalo Bills are treating their long-suffering fans to something resembling a dream season. The Bills had victories in four of their first six games, including an upset of the top-tier New England …
Scott Cook to Address HBS Graduating Class
The founder of Intuit Inc. —maker of finance software products including TurboTax, Quickbooks, and Quicken, that are used by an estimated 50 million individuals and small businesses worldwide—will speak at Harvard Business School’s Class Day ceremony on …
Darkness Visible
On an August evening at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, having hiked past the lawn concert of dirgeful folk music—an audience of couples propped against each other as though they had renounced their spines—opera director Sarah Ina Meyers ’02, composer …
Issue: November-December 2018
Connecting the Harvard Dots
If graduating seniors wondered whether Commencement marked the end of all their Harvard fun and learning, Robert R. Bowie Jr. ’73 was there on Class Day to tell them, “Hell, no!” In fact, the new president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) promised, …
Issue: September-October 2010
A Lifetime of Sharing
In the late 1970s, I attended my first Class of 1960 luncheon, in those days held at the downtown Harvard Club of Boston. It quickly became clear that these gatherings were not just reunion-planning meetings composed of class officers, nor primarily …
Issue: May-June 2010
Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When Did Labor Law Stop Working?
Why would it take an Amazon worker, employed full time, more than a million years to earn what its CEO, Jeff Bezos now possesses? Why do the richest 400 Americans own more wealth than all African-American households combined? And how are these …
Ashbery Accepts Harvard Arts Medal
Fifty years ago, John Ashbery ’49 was living in Paris and short on cash. He needed money to continue writing poetry, so he took up a job translating cheap detective novels from French into English. One novel meant one month of creation. Ashbery’s work, …
A Senior Makes It Back to Campus
The first time I moved to Harvard, I stuffed my suitcases with things I knew I’d never need: glittery lanyards, quill pens, a pack of Big League Chew bubblegum I’d been gifted by a friend as part of a Boston-themed high-school graduation present. My …
Raising the Ante
In the wake of Harvard’s December announcement, a host of other institutions—Haverford, Penn, Pomona, and Swarthmore among them—said they would replace loans with grant aid. (All such programs are tracked at the Project on Student Debt, …
Issue: March-April 2008