Our Program in Brief

The board of the Harvard club of France has carefully designed a new strategy based on the learnings of recent events such as COVID which brought to light new communities through the technologies of virtual events.

It entails a new definition of the French and Francophile Harvard community to embrace its richness and diversity and harness its full potential:

• which is far greater than degree-holding alumni, to include staff, students, executive education…
• which goes far beyond Paris to take into account the regions and other countries;
• which might require adaptability in terms of formats to be more family-friendly or take into account logistical constraints;
• which has a wide range of expectations and needs from the community that the Harvard club of France provides a structured framework for.

From that point of view, we are mindful of a diversity in our programming and offer to cater to logistical constraints, affordability and variety of goals of our community, notably making full use of the opportunities of the development of virtual tools with 1) access to a broader geography, 2) more flexibility in terms of timing and 3) reduced costs. In terms of costs, we offer a range of pricing to ensure events are affordable for all. For costly, more high-end events, we ensure they are subsidized for young graduates.

The program presented below takes into account this large understanding of the community and its needs. It has been voted at the General Assembly 2022 and 2023. It has also redesigned its by-laws in accordance at an Extraordinary General Assembly in 2023 (see updated by-laws).