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Issue: July-August 2025
Ebbing Endowments? Updated
F or the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, Harvard Management Company (HMC) reported a 33.6 percent investment return on endowment assets , propelling an $11.3-billion gain in the endowment’s value, to a record $53.2 billion. Unsurprisingly, early reports …
HAA Honors Three Alumni for Service
The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) has recognized three alumni as the 2021 Harvard Medalists, honoring their extraordinary service to the University. (The actual medal presentation is typically part of the HAA’s annual meeting on the afternoon of …
CFO Thomas Hollister to Step Down
T homas J. Hollister, Harvard’s vice president for finance and chief financial officer since 2015, announced today that he would step down at the end of the academic year, next June 30. His decision, following the recent news that the deans of divinity …
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Would-Be Honorands Before COVID-19 postponed the May 28 Commencement exercises, Harvard announced that its guest speaker, following the morning exercises, would be Martin (“Marty”) Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post since 2013—perhaps the …
Issue: May-June 2020
Behind the Scenes: Group Mentality
A few days after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, I sat in my friend’s living room. We talked about our dismay with the state of the world. Hateful acts and rhetoric seemed so common and differences so entrenched. My friend is pursuing a …
Academic Workers Rally for Union Recognition
A week after publicly announcing their intention to form a union, non-tenure-track faculty members held two rallies Tuesday afternoon in Harvard Yard and at the Longwood campus. More than 100 people turned out, and amid chants of “When we fight, we win!” …
A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court
Men’s basketball senior guard/forward Chris Ledlum, a former high-school football player, sometimes jokes with teammates that even on the basketball court, he’s “an NFL-level wide receiver.” Against Cornell in January, he demonstrated why: in the second …
The Harvard Medalists of 2015
Five alumni —Charles J. “Charlie” Egan Jr. ’54, Michael E.A. Gellert ’53, Thomas W. Lentz Jr., Ph.D. ’85, Sandra Ohrn Moose, Ph.D. ’68, and Robert D. Reischauer ’63—received the 2015 Harvard Medal for “extraordinary service to the University” on May 28, …
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Corporation and Overseer Cohort Timothy R. Barakett ’87, M.B.A. ’93, and Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar ’93 have been elected fellows of the Harvard Corporation, effective July 1. Barakett, a native of Canada who founded and led a large hedge fund for …
Issue: May-June 2019
Making Money Funny
New Jersey’s American Dream Mall has a 14-story waterslide, two ski lifts, and seven species of live sharks. Nearly all storefronts are leased and about five million people visited last year. But the mall’s lawyers argue that the complex is not actually …
Issue: July-August 2025
Sarah Karmon in “listening mode”
Sarah Karmon, the new executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), is excited to continue building “an inclusive and interconnected alumni community and really celebrate the impact that Harvard alumni are making around the world.” She took …
Issue: March-April 2023
March-April 2024
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The Harvard Context: Football Coach Tim Murphy as a Leader and Coach
This is the eleventh post of "The Context"—a biweekly series of archival stories—offering our readers a useful background to some of the most important (and fun!) subjects in the news today. We hope you enjoy it. With a dominant victory last weekend …
On Firmer Footing
The good news is that “Harvard’s finances ended the year in a dramatically improved position” compared to expectations during the pandemic, resulting in an operating surplus of $283 million for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021, according to the annual …
Issue: January-February 2022