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Governing board of Harvard University

The President and Fellows of Harvard College, also called the Harvard Corporation or just the Corporation, is the smaller and more powerful of Harvard University's two governing boards. It refers to itself as the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere. At full capacity, as of 2024, the corporation consists of twelve fellows as well as the president of Harvard University, for a total of thirteen members. Together with the Board of Overseers, the two boards exercise institutional roles that, at most other colleges and universities, are more commonly consolidated into a single board of trustees. Although the institution it governs has grown into a university of which Harvard College is one component, the corporation's name remains "The President and Fellows of Harvard College".

The Harvard Corporation is a 501(c)(3) and the owner of all of Harvard University's assets and real property. As a governing board, the Corporation traditionally functioned as an outside body whose members were not involved in the institution's daily life, meeting instead periodically to consult with the day to day head, the President of Harvard University, whom it appoints, and who also serves as a member. The Corporation is self perpetuating, appointing new members to fill its own vacancies as they arise. For most of its history, the Corporation consisted of six fellows in addition to the president. But after the presidency of Lawrence Summers from 2001 to 2006, and a large endowment decline after the Great Recession in 2008–2009, a year long governance review was conducted. In December 2010, it announced that the Corporation's "composition, structure, and practices" would be altered: the number of fellows would increase from six to twelve, with prescribed terms of service, and several new committees would endeavor to improve the group's integration with the activities of the University as a whole, especially its long term planning. The Charter of 1650 established the Harvard Corporation board which consisted of seven members: a President, five Fellows, and a Treasurer. The Corporation had the authority to manage the College's finances, real estate, and donations, act as a legal entity in courts of law, select officers and servants, and create orders and bylaws for the College, with the approval of the Board of Overseers. The founding members of the Harvard Corporation were respectively: Henry Dunster as President, Samuel Mather, Samuel Danforth, Jonathan Mitchell, Comfort Starr and Samuel Eaton as the five Fellows and Thomas Danforth as the Treasurer. These men had, in perpetual succession, the duties of managing the College. The 1780 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts reaffirmed that, despite the change in government due to the American Revolution, the corporation would continue to "have, hold, use, exercise and enjoy" its property and legal privileges. However it further noted that "nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the legislature of this commonwealth from making such alterations in the government of the said university." In 1805, the election of Henry Ware as Hollis Professor of Divinity placed the Corporation, then politically Federalist and religiously Unitarian, at odds with Massachusetts politics that was increasingly Democratic Republican and still Trinitarian. In late 2023, the Corporation came under scrutiny by the House of Representatives. After a House Committee hearing on antisemitism, House members called for the presidents of Harvard and two other universities to resign. In January 2024, the House Ways and Means Committee, which has jurisdiction over university tax status and endowments, challenged the tax status of Harvard and three other universities, over allegations of inadequate responses to antisemitism.

There are currently twelve members of the Corporation, including the University president, who sets the agenda but does not vote. Name Harvard Degree(s) Year appointed OccupationAlan Garber AB 1976, AM 1977, PhD 1988 2024 interim President of Harvard University Timothy R. Barakett, Treasurer AB 1987, MBA 1993 2019 former CEO of Atticus Capital Kenneth Chenault JD 1976 2014 former CEO of American Express Mariano Florentino Cuéllar AB 1993 2019 co CEO of Madison Dearborn Partners Carolyn Martin None 2018 President Emerita of Amherst College Karen Mills AB 1975, MBA 1977 2014 chair of Carlson Holdings Penny Pritzker, Senior Fellow AB 1981 2018 co founder and CEO of Social Finance Shirley M. Tilghman LLD 2004 (Honorary) 2016 former president of Princeton University Ted Wells JD 1976, MBA 1976 2013 partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & GarrisonKenneth C. FrazierJD 19782024former CEO of Merck & Co.