Graham Lee

Covering Harvard's Finances and Endowment @thecrimson.

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/xPGZQOGftO

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/r08GkSTlTC

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/OQ18dkTquM

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/iHGT1u3Wzq

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.
https://t.co/VL9qNDRwTF

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/LmdjjZJ5Fn

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/NpNs0Q5ICh

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/1FVLZ3fpsq

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/eGwEvMzPkp

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/jyrPizy8Oa

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/xgaGoQMZ2r

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/FfgowHswHw

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

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.

https://t.co/HDU3WI44JN

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

A federal judge rejected the data investigation blog Data Colada’s request to force former Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino to pay legal expenses for her since-dismissed defamation suit against them.

@grahamwonlee reports.

https://t.co/CmBhUj5klp

[Graham Lee @GrahamWonLee]

yeah

[Abby Shih Gerstein @abbysgerstein]

FACT CHECK: Trump Lies Sometimes

w/ @GrahamWonLee
https://t.co/fTq9xgFHwJ

[Tilly Robinson @tillyrobin]

Trump had a lot to say about Harvard at the start of this week. @thecrimson checked the facts.

via @abbysgerstein and @GrahamWonLee: https://t.co/q5Qnw8t8Qm

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Harvard revoked tenure from Francesca Gino, the Harvard Business School professor who has been fighting data fraud allegations for nearly four years, and ended her employment at last week.

@GrahamWonLee, @williamcmao, and @VeronicaHPaulus report.

https://t.co/8NTr6i01eL

[Graham Lee @GrahamWonLee]

Former HBS professor Francesca Gino has had her tenure revoked, marking the first recorded instance of tenure revocation in Harvard's history.

w/@VeronicaHPaulus and @williamcmao in @thecrimson
https://t.co/PcEkdxzfc6

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism selected 22 journalists from around the world as fellows to study and teach at Harvard for two semesters, the foundation announced on Thursday.

@AyaanAhmad2024 and @grahamwonlee report.

https://t.co/BbEOUEq7aQ

[Graham Lee @GrahamWonLee]

Wowzers 😧

[Hugo Chiasson @HugoChiassonn]

FAS decided to close the Barker Center Cafe today, citing financial uncertainty. This comes one year after the Cambridge Queen's Head Pub closure, which sparked significant controversy among student workers.

w/ @amannmahajan in @thecrimson
https://t.co/CpOMiPKzya