Alumni

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

David Yoffie pictured smiling at the camera wearing a navy blazer

Five Questions with David Yoffie

David Yoffie has spent decades at Harvard studying how tech reshapes business strategy and competition, from semiconductors to AI.

by Olivia Farrar

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard alumni in their Commencement day finery preparing for the traditional alumni parade

Celebrating Alumni, Anew

Changes afoot for Harvard’s annual alumni meeting

Reporting, with an M.B.A.

Charles Duhigg unpacks how individuals and organizations work at war, on Wall Street, and in Silicon Valley

by Jonathan Shaw

Portrait of Donald Hall 2014

The Poet of Old Age

Donald Hall, chronicler of life

by Adam Kirsch

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

From Punk to the Silver Screen

The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77

by Nicolas Rapold

Photo of Carolyn Gold and the cover of her book, When I Died

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photograph of Edgar J. Banks as he appeared in a 1920s book on his archaeological explorations

Edgar James Banks

Brief life of an entrepreneurial archaeologist: 1866-1945

by Nancy Freudenthal

Emily Broad Leib in front of produce

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

Jason Bouldin at work on a painting in his studio

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson