University Finances

Reporting on Harvard’s budget, endowment, and financial strategy.

Smiling man in a black suit and glasses, standing against a beige backdrop.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Appoints a New Finance Dean

Warren Petrofsky joins at a crucial moment when the FAS is dealing with a $350 million deficit.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The invitation for the September 21 launch events and festivities

Harvard Campaign launch events guide

A guide to The Harvard Campaign’s September 21 launch events

Short profiles of Harvard's capital campaign leaders

Harvard’s fundraising leaders

Honorand Bill Gates, the guest speaker at the 2007 Commencement, relished receiving a Harvard degree a mere three decades late. David M. Rubenstein is a co-chair of The Harvard Campaign.

Bill Gates, David Rubenstein talk philanthropy at Harvard campaign launch

Bill Gates and David Rubenstein discuss philanthropy at The Harvard Campaign launch

A Harvard faculty panel convenes for the capital campaign launch

The faculty panelists at The Harvard Campaign launch event

An honorand and the principal guest speaker at the 2007 Commencement exercises, Bill Gates reveled in collecting his Harvard degree—30-plus years after he dropped out of the College.

Walter Isaacson on Microsoft's founder Bill Gates at Harvard

Walter Isaacson on "complete rejectionist" Bill Gates at Harvard College—and the birth of personal-computer software

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Glenn Hutchins gives $15 million gift to Harvard's Du Bois Institute

An infusion of support for the Du Bois Institute and related enterprises

Harvard president Drew Faust marks the start of the academic year with an address in Sanders Theatre.

President Drew Faust welcomes the Harvard community to a new academic year

President Faust greets the Harvard community with a measured message of hope.

Drew Faust

Harvard President Drew Faust at morning prayers

President Drew Faust at morning prayers in Memorial Church

Couches, a flat-screen TV, multicolored chairs, and a brand-new kitchen have transformed the basement of the newly renovated Old Quincy into an appealing community room.

Old Quincy is Harvard's first modernized undergraduate House

Harvard opens its first modernized House.

Dan Shore

Harvard's fiscal picture on verge of capital campaign

Putting The Harvard Campaign in fiscal context