Harvard Corporation and Overseers

News and perspectives from Harvard’s Board of Directors and Board of Overseers on governance, vision, and institutional priorities.

Two professional portraits side by side: a woman in a red top smiling and a man in a suit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to Join Harvard Corporation

The alumni will fill two vacancies on the University’s governing board.

by Jonathan Shaw

Two professional portraits side by side: a woman in a red top smiling and a man in a suit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Michael S. Chae to Join Harvard Corporation

The alumni will fill two vacancies on the University’s governing board.

by Jonathan Shaw

Front page of The Harvard Bulletin from November 7, 1898, featuring the headline “Harvard Wins” about a football victory over Pennsylvania and articles on Harvard graduates’ service in the Spanish-American War

A History of Harvard Magazine

Harvard’s independent alumni magazine—at 127 years old 

by Olivia Farrar

James Muller in white lab coat leaning on railing in hospital hallway.

Free Speech, the Bomb—and Donald Trump

A Harvard cardiologist on the unlikely alliances that shaped a global movement to prevent nuclear war

Public health dean Andrea Baccarelli wearing a white collared shirt and glasses.

The School of Public Health, Facing a Financial Reckoning, Seizes the Chance to Reinvent Itself

Dean Andrea Baccarelli plans for a smaller, more impactful Chan School of 2030.

by Jonathan Shaw