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Saketh Sundar
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Senate Finance Committee Proposal for 8% Endowment Tax Could Cost Harvard $200 Million Per Year
The Senate Finance Committee released proposed changes to the House’s tax and spending bill that would introduce an 8 percent tax on large endowments. Down from the 21 percent rate passed by the House, the proposal would still be a sixfold hike from the 1.4 percent Harvard currently pays.
When Bill Gates Wrote Microsoft’s First Code on a Harvard Mainframe
Bill Gates arrived at Harvard College in September 1973 as a quiet freshman from Seattle in Wigglesworth Hall. He left campus two years later not with a degree, but with a piece of software that would launch Microsoft and begin reshaping the digital landscape.
After a Semester of Catastrophic Federal Cuts, Researchers at Harvard Are in a ‘Survival State’
Across Harvard’s schools, researchers described a wave of destruction following sweeping terminations of federally funded grants. More than $2.7 billion in cuts have come as part of the Trump administration’s targeted pressure campaign against Harvard.
A New Milestone: Ben Abercrombie to Graduate Eight Years After Injury
Ben Abercrombie faced a life-altering injury eight years ago. Now he's preparing to graduate and start life off-campus while leaving a strong legacy behind.
From 4–20 to Ivy Final: Behind Strong Pitching, Harvard Baseball “Proves The World Wrong”
After Harvard's baseball team faced a 4-21 start to the season, it knew things had to change to keep its season alive. Then, as Truman Pauley took the mound that afternoon, his performance ignited an improbable postseason run.
House Narrowly Passes GOP Tax Bill Targeting Harvard’s Endowment with 21 Percent Tax
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping Republican-backed tax and spending bill Thursday that would impose a 21 percent tax on Harvard’s endowment returns — the latest in a series of federal measures inflicting harsh financial penalties on the University.
Garber Establishes Presidential Priorities Fund, Calls on Alumni to Back Harvard in Fight with Trump
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 unveiled a new Presidential Priorities Fund in a Monday email and called on alumni and donors to throw their financial and political support behind the University.
Scores of Researchers Receive Termination Notices After Federal Government Cuts Most Grants to Harvard
More than 100 Harvard researchers received termination notices for federally funded research projects on Thursday, as sweeping cuts to the majority of Harvard’s federal grants begin taking effect across the University’s labs.
Harvard Paid Claudine Gay $1.3 Million in 2023, Financial Disclosures Show
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay earned more than $1.3 million in 2023 — which spanned the end of her term as Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean and all six months of her short-lived presidency — according to the University’s annual tax disclosures.
HMC Backs Out of Big Tech, Increases Stakes in Microsoft and Booking at Beginning of 2025
Harvard Management Company pulled back on many of its recent tech investments during the first quarter of 2025 while significantly increasing its stakes in Microsoft and Booking Holdings in a major shakeup of its directly held public equities portfolio.