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Cory Doctorow / 4:44 am Fri, Oct 19, 2018

Wanna get into Harvard? Just ask your parents to donate a building.

A batch of internal Harvard admission-related emails have come into the public domain as part of a lawsuit alleging that Harvard discriminates against Asian applicants, and they reveal that the admissions process is tilted in favor of members of families who are major donors to Harvard. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 11:28 am Thu, Jan 26, 2017

Harvard announces mass firing of its hedge-fund managers

Harvard has the world's largest university endowment, $35.7B, so much money that Thomas Piketty used its public investment records as a proxy for the likely investment returns of the super-rich in his Capital in the 21st Century. Read the rest