Covering Harvard's Finances and Endowment @thecrimson.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joined October 2024
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Former Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana criticized the December 2023 congressional testimony of three university presidents on campus antisemitism, saying none could explain what a university is for.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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Harvard has taken more than $163 million from foreign sources in 2026. The Crimson analyzed the filings to trace where money went, from financial aid and professorships to contracts with oil companies.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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For the second year in a row, Harvard Management Company’s annual climate report, which tracks HMC’s progress toward Harvard’s goal of achieving net-zero endowment emissions, is nowhere to be found.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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Harvard spent $210,000 on federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, down slightly from the first quarter and 22 percent from the same period last year, according to disclosures filed Monday.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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NEW: Harvard ended its decadeslong relationship with O’Neill Athy and Casey, a Washington, D.C. lobbying firm that represented the University since at least 1999, according to a disclosure filed Monday.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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Two longtime managing directors have left Harvard Management Company in recent weeks, thinning the senior ranks of the firm that manages Harvard’s $56.9 billion endowment.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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Two longtime senior employees recently departed from Harvard’s endowment — including its highest paid managing director.
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Harvard spent $220,000 on federal lobbying between January and March, maintaining elevated advocacy spending as the University continues to navigate sustained financial and regulatory pressure.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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Harvard will attempt to issue $675 million in tax-exempt bonds — its third major debt sale in just over a year — according to a preliminary official statement released Friday.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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Donors using Harvard’s donor-advised fund directed nearly $9 million to three organizations focused on Jewish life and combating antisemitism in fiscal year 2024.
@MeganBlonigen, @grahamwonlee, and @JackBReardon report.
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Harvard Management Company expanded its cryptocurrency footprint in 2025, opening a new multimillion-dollar position in an Ethereum exchange-traded fund even as it trimmed its Bitcoin holdings.
@MeganBlonigen and @grahamwonlee report.
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NEW: Former Harvard Business School associate professor Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 argued Harvard rewrote and then ignored its tenure rules to derail his bid, per court documents shared with The Crimson.
@KatharineEC7, @sienadevinee, & @grahamwonlee report.
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Former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino has turned to podcasting to tell her story since losing tenure and leaving Harvard after being accused of manipulating data.
@Evan_HC_Epstein and @grahamwonlee report.
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Twenty-four years after Legally Blonde star Reese Witherspoon first asked if it’s hard to get into Harvard, she returned to campus on Tuesday to discuss entrepreneurship and female empowerment at HBS.
@Evan_HC_Epstein and @grahamwonlee report.
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Kevin O’Leary, an investor from the show “Shark Tank,” judged six teams of Harvard students on their startup pitches at a Harvard Business School event, awarding the winning team $200,000 in funding.
@Evan_HC_Epstein and @grahamwonlee report.
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Canvas, Harvard’s main platform for classes, was unusable for more than 12 hours on Monday due to a widespread outage, leaving students and professors unable to access class pages.
@Evan_HC_Epstein, @grahamwonlee, and Tess E. Sumner report.
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Harvard Business School Dean Srikant M. Datar said HBS faculty are using artificial intelligence to advise students and evaluate their work during a Boston AI Week event on Wednesday.
@grahamwonlee, Riya S. Shah, and Dylan Wang report.
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Vladimir Artamonov, a 2003 HBS alumnus, was indicted in federal court for allegedly defrauding investors out of more than $4 million in a “Ponzi-like fashion,” according to documents unsealed Thursday.
@grahamwonlee and Anna Shao report.
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Harvard Business School won’t say what happened to its $25 million Racial Equity Action Plan after the plan was apparently shuttered as Harvard backs away from the language of race and diversity.
@Evan_HC_Epstein and @grahamwonlee report.
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Harvard sued behavioral scientist Francesca Gino for defamation in August, alleging the former Harvard Business School professor sent the school a falsified dataset to prove she did not commit data fraud.
@Evan_HC_Epstein and @GrahamWonLee report.
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