JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL gests that shift was driven by changes in Union of Clerical and Technical Workers Partners facilities…is so highly regarded). pension costs and accounting in fiscal year (whose members are not immediately af- It may take all the health-policy and 2003—but there has not been much relief fected by the changes, which are subject -economics expertise at the University’s since. The University’s health coverage, to contract negotiation), a sharp critic of disposal to solve that problem, for Har- in the view of faculty experts at Harvard Harvard’s approach of shifting costs to vard and the wider U.S. healthcare system. Medical School and Harvard School of employees, has not proposed tiered insur- A report on these issues can be found at Public Health, has been very generous— ance plans. The union did release a white harvardmag.com/health-14. and that coverage pays for care in a mar- paper outlining changes in medical servic- ket with very high-quality providers, who es (better use of mail-order prescriptions, charge some of the highest prices in the attempts to reduce emergency-room use Capitalizing country. for urgent care, and so on); it calculated The changes in coinsurance and deduct- savings of $5 million to $6 million annually. The university announced in mid Sep- ibles don’t address those factors. As some Hinting at the large issues still looming, tember that The Harvard Campaign— of the faculty experts point out, high local the union paper noted, “Current research launched publicly a year earlier, with $2.8 costs are associated with academic medi- suggests that the problem of unnecessar- billion of gifts and pledges in hand—had cal centers: the very hospitals affiliated ily high-cost hospital care is particularly realized an additional $1.5 billion of com- with the medical school. (There is research acute for hospitals in the Partners Health- mitments through the end of the fiscal year, demonstrating that the costs vary a lot— Care system. If a carefully-designed pro- June 30, 2014, having raised “more than $4.3 and often far more than the quality of care, gram could gently push Harvard patients billion” toward its goal of $6.5 billion. when provided by community hospitals, away from Partners for routine care, with- That brisk fundraising pace coincided for instance, versus the most sophisticated out taking away the opportunity to receive with the launch of individual campaigns tertiary-care hospitals.) Scholars have dis- appropriate care in areas where Partners by the Harvard School of Public Health cussed how to provide health insurance in hospitals are world leaders, the potential (HSPH), the Faculty of Arts and Sciences tiers, for service options carrying varying savings are great.” Treading delicately, it (FAS), the Radcliffe Institute, and others: costs. But there is little appetite for in- continued, “This is a complex…area both the kind of events that often focus gift- surance that is tightly tied to the medical for the University (because Partners hos- giving. By the end of the fiscal year, Har- “value” of care, or to provider networks pitals are Harvard-affiliated…) and for vard Business School had recorded $721 with differing prices. Even the Harvard employees (because the quality of care at million in gifts and pledges—up from the $600 million-plus announced during its launch gala in late April. By late summer, FAS had exceeded $1.4 billion in gifts and Explore More pledges toward its $2.5-billion goal—up smartly from the $1 billion secured when Harvardmagazine.com brings you continuous coverage of University and alumni news. Visit to find these stories and more: its public campaign began last October. Even the eye-opening $4.3 billion total as of June 30 understated the robust results: Urban Art } Musical Notation it does not include the Chan family’s page 71 | View additional page 78 | Watch a video of $350-million endowment gift to HSPH un- images of former Loeb Thomas Kelly describing and veiled in early September (see “Propelling Fellow Ross Miller’s performing songs from Public Health,” page 32). interactive artworks, which } his book Capturing Music: By March 31, across Harvard, 56 exist- transform public spaces The Story of Notation, on ing and new professorships had been en- around Boston. how musical notation dowed during the campaign. Details were developed in the West. lacking about the proportion of gifts for endowment, as opposed to current use, or fundraising for academic and program- An Opening-of-Year Conversation with Drew Faust matic ambitions, but a few developments President Faust and Nicholas Kristof discuss Harvard and higher education highlighted campaign benefactions: harvardmag.com/kristof-14 • Naming a deanship. At the Harvard Col- Biden on Foreign Policy at Harvard lege Fund Assembly in September, Presi- The vice president at the Kennedy School on Ebola, ISIL, China, and Russia dent Drew Faust announced that the FAS harvardmag.com/biden-14 dean’s post had been named the Edgerley Family Deanship to recognize support “Twenty Questions” with William Deresiewicz from Paul B. Edgerley, M.B.A. ’83, and San- At Harvard, the Ivy League critic faces faculty and student interlocutors. dra Matejic Edgerley ’84, M.B.A. ’89—who harvardmag.com/deresiewicz-14 are co-chairs of both the Harvard and the FAS campaigns (and the parents of two VISIT HARVARDMAGAZINE.COM undergraduates). The Edgerleys’ support 26 November - December 2014 Reprinted from Harvard Magazine. For more information, contact Harvard Magazine, Inc. at 617-495-5746 JOHN HARVARD'S JOURNAL the Cambridge Planning Board, (honoring the donor’s late father, who as this issue went to press. The founded Yıldız Holding, a multinational $100-million-plus project— corporation based in Turkey) will be led making three additions to cur- by Simmons professor of genetics and me- rent structures, including a tabolism Gökhan S. Hotamisligil. bridge over the Eliot Street ve- • Researching health policy. At the Medical ENT M hicular entry to link the Belfer School, which unveils its campaign in No- and Taubman buildings; raising vember, the department of health care pol- GOVERN F the elevation of the courtyard; icy launched its Health Care Markets and and, as a result, expanding the Regulation Lab to investigate high-quality, campus’s square footage by financially sustainable care. A $9.96-million nearly one-third—was signaled grant from the Houston-based Laura (Elena as a campaign priority during Munoz ’94) and John Arnold Foundation THE KENNEDY SCHOOL O F the school’s launch event last helped initiate seven projects on payment RTESY O May. Robert A.M. Stern Ar- reform, care exchanges, and other subjects, U CO chitects LLP, responsible for beginning on October 1. Schaeffer professor A rendering of the Kennedy School’s the Business School’s Spangler Center, did of health care policy Michael Chernew leads expanded and reconfigured campus; learn the effort. John Arnold was an energy trader more at harvardmag.com/hks-14. this new design, too. Construction is envi- sioned from mid 2015 to late 2017. at Enron before operating his own hedge covers “the salary and other administra- • Other public-health priorities. Soon after fund through 2012. tive costs for the position while helping to HSPH revealed the Chan family’s endow- Amid this news, the Graduate School of maintain and strengthen the leadership of ment gift, the school announced a $24-mil- Design and Graduate School of Education FAS going forward.” lion gift from entrepreneur Murat Ülker launched campaigns during the second and • Kennedy School construction. Harvard of Istanbul to establish the Sabri Ülker third weeks of September; highlights follow. Kennedy School took plans for an ambi- Center for Nutrient, Genetic, and Meta- As to the future? Professional fundrais- tious, complex, 77,000-square-foot addi- bolic Research, focused on ailments such ers, ever fretful, caution that past giving tion to and renovation of its campus before as diabetes and heart disease. The center does not guarantee future success. That Seeding Scientists vard’s Cabot professor of the natural sci- University People Two of the three winners of the Blavat- ences—himself a Fields medalist. Manjul nik National Awards for Young Scientists Bhargava ’96, now professor of mathe- Innovation Honorand are Harvard faculty members: Rachel matics at Princeton, was also awarded a Cherry Murray, dean of Wilson, professor of neurobiology at the Fields this year the School of Engineer- Medical School, who studies how brain SEAS / ing and Applied Sciences, circuitry works; and Adam E. Cohen, Math MacArthur, Et Alii has been awarded the professor of chemistry and chemical bi- Professor of mathematics Jacob Lurie National Medal of Tech- ology and of physics, who develops tools was named a MacArthur Foundation NDATION ELIZA ELIZA GRINNELL nology and Innovation. to probe molecular and cellular functions U fellow, for work in derived algebraic ge- Cherry R FO President Barack Obama (see “Light-Up Neurons,” March-April U ometry. Alumni honorands include Jen- Murray RTH made the announcement 2012, page 10). Each receives a $250,000 A nifer Eberhardt, Ph.D. on October 3. For details, see harvardmag.- unrestricted grant to pursue research. In . MAC ’93, a social psychologist; T com/murray-14. his biography, Cohen cited his father, Joel Joshua Oppenheimer ’97, ’65, Ph.D. ’70, JF ’71, D.P.H. ’73, maker of the documen- E. Cohen ATHERINE Humanities Honorands Mauzé professor of populations at Rock- C tary filmThe Act of Killing; . AND Alumni recognized with the National efeller University, for inspiring his inter- D and Craig Gentry, J.D. Humanities Medal, conferred in July, in- est in science. JOHN ’98, a computer scientist. clude M.H.