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A Smaller Surplus—and Endowment Returns Turn Positive
… Harvard’s annual financial report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, published today, … fiscal 2022 . The latest results punctuated a full decade of Crimson black ink, dating from fiscal 2014, when … elaborate hedging strategies. In that sense, the seeming rise in financial market volatility and political …
An Engine of Class Mobility
… for Harvard may sound strangely unambitious or askew from the University’s main ambitions, perhaps because I am loading onto the institution many of the concerns and hopes I have for the United States as a … in general—and Harvard is by far the best known of them—in developing America’s strengths, appeal, and …
Issue: September-October 2011
Convocation Welcomes Classes of 2024 and 2025 to Campus
… Two College classes, together for the first time, celebrated their convocations on … them to a fully re-opened Harvard. The Class of 2025 is larger than usual, and includes a number of students who deferred enrollment last year amid the …
Lydialyle Gibson , Nancy Walecki
Five Medal of Freedom Honorands
… President Barack Obama J.D.’91 conferred the Medal of Freedom on 16 people at a White House ceremony … as he continued to fight brain cancer and mourned the death of his sister Eunice Shriver; his Harvard honorary degree …
The War in Europe
… Ukraine has proved to be a different kind of emergency. Unlike Afghan scholars, for whom the threat is so dire that the only choice is to evacuate as … Unrue says, to remain in their own country or nearby. Some of them have joined the fighting; others have loved ones in …
Issue: January-February 2023
The Financial Fallout
… In the fall of 2008, as banks and markets collapsed, Harvard … in Washington (and around the world) may offset the crises more swiftly and effectively than can be forecast. … impaired, students’ needs for support may be expected to rise, for the duration of any recession. Within the College, …
Minding the Gap
… Abigail Thernstrom , a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, and Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of …
Issue: March-April 2004
Money Matters
… The investment return on Harvard’s endowment assets during … from $37.1 billion a year earlier. N.P. Narvekar, CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the … and academic health, of their success. The 5.7 percent rise in the endowment’s value in part reflects a relatively …
Issue: November-December 2018
The Water Tamer
… In the little town of 5,000 where he now lives, John Briscoe holds the exalted title “master of the Todd Pond dam,” a tiny impoundment. He uses this role …
Issue: January-February 2012
Skull Walking
… If you happened to be outdoors on the Harvard Medical School campus last November, you might have noticed this 78-inch-tall model of a bisected human skull making its way down Shattuck … Street by Gordon Hall to a staging area in the basement of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. It was …
Issue: March-April 2014
Rose Is a Rose...
… In light of Radcliffe College's 1999 transformation... … 60 … Rose Is …
At Home with Harvard: The Immigrant Experience
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the previous selections, featuring articles about income … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
"Lots of Reasonable 99c Lunches"
… Found in this magazine’s basement: a sheaf of pages listing Cambridge and Boston restaurants from a guide for students that evidently dates from the early 1960s. Here are the greasy-spoons: Waldorf, … dependables, including Elsie’s and the Wursthaus. Scenes of innocent merriment, such as Cronin’s, where “dinners run …
Issue: May-June 2006
The Venture-Capital University
… Research universities are the world’s great venture capitalists for investments in … human capital—that is, knowledge. Harvard enrolls thousands of students, each of whom is a “project.” Students acquire human capital, an …
Issue: September-October 2011
Music, Taken Personally
… ago , composer John Adams '69, A.M. '72, was conductor of the undergraduate Bach Society Orchestra. A Crimson critic … marriage, for example, is brief and reticent. We view his rise to his current eminence obliquely, as a progress from …
Issue: May-June 2009