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Breaking developments, leadership announcements, and policy changes from across Harvard’s schools and administration.

An image of a hand drawing digital symbols related to a supply chain over a background of 1s and 0s representing artificial intelligence

How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains

Harvard Kennedy School lecturer on using AI to strengthen supply chains

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard endowment rises to $36.4 billion

After a 15.4 percent investment return, the losses sustained in the 2008 financial crisis are nearly recouped.

Dean James Ryan speaks to the more than 1,300 attendees at the HGSE campaign launch, held under a tent in Radcliffe Yard.

Harvard education school's $250-million capital campaign

Harvard aims to “learn to change the world” at a moment of crisis and promise in schooling.

Harvard arts sciences deanship endowed

The Edgerleys’ campaign gifts recognized

Entrepreneur Peter Thiel (left) and professor of business administration William A. Sahlman discuss the power of monopolies at an event in Burden Hall.

PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel Talks Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School

Paypal co-founder and venture capitalist offers contrarian business views in a talk at Harvard Business School.

HILT conference participants: (top row) Melissa Franklin and Lawrence Lessig; (bottom row) Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Robert Lue

HILT conference on engagement and distance in learning and teaching

Harvard explores learning, teaching, and institutional change.

MacArthur winners (top row) Jacob Lurie and Jennifer Eberhardt; (second row, from left) Joshua Oppenheimer and Craig Gentry

Harvard Faculty member, three alumni win MacArthur genius grants

Professor Lurie and graduates Eberhardt, Oppenheimer, and Gentry are awarded $625,000 fellowships.

Journalist Nicholas Kristof in conversation with President Drew Faust in Sanders Theatre

Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaks with Harvard president Drew Faust

The Harvard president touches on key issues in higher education.

Harvard Campaign Exceeds $4.3 Billion

A robust first year of public fundraising

Emblazoned on the side of Gund Hall, this phrase offered motivation for the Graduate School of Design’s $110-million campaign launch.

Harvard design school’s $110-million capital campaign

Local and global ambitions for "grounded visionaries" in architecture, landscape design, and urban planning

FDR (first row, second from left) and his roommate Lathrop Brown (first row, far right) pose with fellow Glee Club members in the fall of their freshman year.

“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard

Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.