Alumni

Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.

An image of three of the fellows from the Radcliffe Institute selected to be 2026-2027 fellows

Radcliffe Institute Announces 2026-2027 Fellows

Scholars will tap Harvard’s intellectual resources during the coming academic year.

by Olivia Farrar

Lead Harvard fundraisers for arts and sciences, engineering and applied sciences

Harvard’s fundraising leaders for arts and sciences and engineering and applied sciences

<i>If I Knew Then</i> contains vignettes from nearly 100 alumni of the HBS class of 1963, writing about topics on which they were asked to reflect: Careers, Marriage & Family, Business, Leadership, Wealth, Growing Older, Charity & Spirituality, Happiness & Success, Turning Points, and Life's Lessons.

Harvard Business School's Class of 1963 reflects on life and business

HBS’s Class of 1963 reflects on the occasion of their fiftieth reunion.

Bill Gates, LL.D. &rsquo;07

Bill Gates at Harvard

An unconventional undergraduate's College years, and the birth of the personal-computer software industry

Sandra Goldmark and Michael Banta at Pop Up Repair, their experimental effort to begin a national dialogue about consumption

Sandra Goldmark's novel effort promotes repairing, not replacing, items

Sandra Goldmark ’97 puts the focus on repair, not replace.

by Kristen Strezo

Shared Interest Group events in November and December 2013

Shared Interest Group events in November and December

&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want Morehouse to just survive,&rdquo; says its new president, John S. Wilson Jr., &ldquo;I want it to thrive.&rdquo;

Morehouse College president returns to rebuild ailing institution

John S. Wilson Jr. grabs the chance to realize his calling.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Top row (from left): Stephen Baird, Mary McGrath Carty, and Sylvia Chase Gerson. Second row (from left): Carl Martignetti, Peter Weldon, and George Yeadon

Harvard alumni win awards for years of volunteer service to the University

Six win awards for their years of volunteering.

Robert Bradlee enjoys racing on trails at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.

New England's best Nordic ski sites

Harvardians share their favorite Northeast Nordic skiing sites.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Frontispiece (1772) for <i>Encyclop&eacute;die</i>, edited by Denis Diderot: Truth, bathed in light, is unveiled by Philosophy and Reason

Excerpt from "Fire and Light" by James MacGregor Burns

James MacGregor Burns, Ph.D. ’47, on intellect, governance, and the Enlightenment

J.C. Buttre&rsquo;s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)

Brief life of statesman-orator Edward Everett, by Castle Freeman

Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865