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Sticking to the Union
As a full-time freelance writer in New York City for 15 years, Greg Lichtenberg ’88 tolerates the cash-flow anxieties because of the clear lifestyle benefits: lots of control over his time (especially helpful for parenting), and the chance to truly employ …
Issue: July-August 2010
Endowment Returns, Endowment Management: Straws in the Wind?
Harvard Management Company (HMC) has resumed its practice from before the acute financial crisis of late 2008: it will not issue interim updates on performance. Instead, it will revert to reporting investment returns on the University’s endowment …
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A Dean’s Departure Jay O. Light, who was appointed interim dean of Harvard Business School (HBS) in August 2005 and dean the following April, announced on December 2 that he will step down from the post and retire from the faculty at the end of this …
Issue: January-February 2010
FAS’s Financial Hole: A Little Less Deep
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) dean Michael D. Smith invited professors and staff members to a briefing titled "FAS Financial Update and Other FY '09 Accomplishments" on Tuesday afternoon, September 15, in the Science Center B lecture hall. His …
Football: Harvard 24, Cornell 7
It was a dark and stormy half. The first 30 minutes of the Harvard football team’s game against Ivy League rival Cornell at the Stadium on Saturday were played in the rain and the dank. The dismal performance of the Crimson offense (and the Big Red’s, for …
Women of the Year
Concluding the year in which Harvard transitioned from its first woman president to its twenty-eighth man to hold the office, the University showcased a dazzling array of female leaders during the 368th Commencement, May 28-31. Their spheres of action …
Issue: July-August 2019
Faculty Seeks $100-Million to $130-Million Cost Cuts, Slashes Searches
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) needs to cut its annual operating costs by $100 million to $130 million. That daunting challenge remains after FAS imposes severe measures to rein in growth in current costs, including: freezing compensation for …
Harvard Makes the Case for Diversity
The University LAte Yesterday filed its amicus brief in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (hereafter, University of Texas ), the latest in a series of high-stakes cases concerning the consideration of race in admissions to institutions of higher …
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An Eye on Immigration Photograph courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums © President and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program has created “Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930,” a Web-based set of …
Issue: March-April 2007
Extracurriculars
Defy the winter doldrums: attend a gospel concert, take kids to see Oliver Twist, or dip into the diverse array of exhibits on offer. This season, museums and libraries in and around Harvard Square provide a wide range of close looks at people (Leonard …
Issue: January-February 2007
John Harvard Didn't Sleep Here
For three-quarters of a century, the Harvard rooms at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, have hosted graduates of the New England university named for one of the college's alumni who received his degree from Cambridge in 1632. The scholarship that brings them …
Issue: July-August 2004
Repatriating Native American Remains
When Joseph P. “Joe” Gone ’92 was a student at Harvard, the University was inventorying the thousands of Native American remains stored at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act …
Issue: September-October 2021
News from the HAA
• Alumni Abroad • Well Done • Harvard@Home • Hiram Hunn Awards • Call for Nominations Alumni Abroad The Harvard Alumni Association is sponsoring a "Harvard in Europe" conference, designed to "engage our global alumni in the …
Issue: September-October 2003
Rebel Lawyer
With the sun finally fading on a blazing spring afternoon in Los Angeles, Gerald López, J.D. ’74, was sitting down to a simple dinner—salad, bread, Prosecco—at a restaurant a few blocks from the UCLA campus, where he teaches law. He has spent most of his …
Issue: September-October 2018
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Bettering Government Gail Christopher Kris Snibbe/ Harvard News Office With a $50-million endowment grant--its largest ever--the Ford Foundation has underwritten a new Institute for Government Innovation at the Kennedy School. The largest donation in the …