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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 …
Financial Update
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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 …
Harvard’s Financial Outlook
The University ’s severely challenging academic year —marked by a community divided over the Middle East war, an abrupt change of presidents, a pro-Palestinian encampment that spawned protests at Commencement —ended formally June 30. That also concluded …
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 …
And Having Written...
Deputy editor Craig Lambert tiptoed on to Harvard Magazine ’s masthead formally in the November-December 1988 issue, the ninetieth-anniversary edition, as a “copy editor.” (He had previously been listed among the contributing editors, having written about …
Issue: January-February 2015
Arts and Sciences: Strong Finances, and an Aging Faculty
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ dean’s annual report for the 2022-2023 academic year was the principal subject of the FAS meeting on November 7. Before presenting it, Hopi Hoekstra launched a meeting innovation—a faculty member’s “research minute” …
Football 2023: Harvard 34-Brown 31
On Friday night at Harvard Stadium, nearly 16,000 spectators witnessed a real rock-and-roller between Harvard and Brown. The game featured big plays, spectacular catches, a stirring goal-line stand and a cerebral move to clinch the outcome. When it was …
Brevia
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
Harvard Football: New Season, New Coach
The winter , spring, and summer of our discontent having concluded, Harvard’s 2024 football season kicks off this Saturday—appropriately enough, the first day of autumn—at noon ET in Harvard Stadium against Stetson. (The game will be streamed on ESPN+, …
March-April 2024
March-April 2024 … issue …
Safe Streets
… Such was the case in Massachusetts until January 2025, when the legislature legalized cameras mounted on city …
Issue: March-April 2025
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 …
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