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Harvard Business School just made elite startup education radically more accessible – and more artificial. The school’s new HBS Foundry program charges just $699 for a bootcamp where AI avatars of actual instructors provide real-time feedback during pitch practice and simulated board meetings. It’s a dramatic departure from the $75,000 annual MBA tuition, and it…

Last week, Harvard University disclosed a $2.2 billion stake in SpaceX held by Harvard Management Company, which manages the university’s massive endowment. Harvard also disclosed a roughly $350 million stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chipmaker. University endowments,traditionally investing in diverse, low-risk assets, are moving closer to Silicon Valley by making…

Near the end of the summer, I started writing a novel. It doesn’t yet have a title, nor does its narrator have a name. Among my friends, this work in progress has come to be known as “the manuscript.” Its opening scene features a young man at the Mexico City International Airport; the rest is…