Full List of Past Guests

Each Franklin Fellowship dinner features 12 students, 2 leaders, and 1 world-renowned guest. Our full history of guests is listed below.

See how many names you recognize!

• David Ager, HBS professor, Franklin Fellowship Faculty Advisor

• Jeffrey Saviano, EY Consulting Emerging Tech Strategy & Governance Leader

• Peter Davis, Academy Award Winning Film Maker

• Derek Bok, Former President of Harvard University

• Alan Garber, President of Harvard University

• Adi Ignatius, editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review

• Robert Putnam, American political scientist; Harvard Professor; Best Selling Author

• Kipp Bodnar, CMO of Hubspot

• Gevvie Stone, Silver Medal Olympian

• Jim Waldo, Chief Technology Officer for the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

• Nick Morgan, NYT Best selling Author & Communication Expert

• Amy Cuddy, American social psychologist know for research on Power Poses

• Vincent Petryk, Founder & Owner of J.P. Licks

• Steven Pinker, Renowned Psychology Professor

• Roland Fryer, PhD Economist

• Peter Boyce, Partner at General Catalyst

• Mateo Messina, Grammy Winning Composer and Film Scorer

• Vincent Petryk, Founder / President of J.P. Licks

• Michael Norton, HBS Professor on Money and Happiness

• David Meerman Scott, NYT Best Selling Author & American Online Marketing Strategist and Author

• Daniel Gilbert, NYT Bestselling Author; Psychologist at Harvard

• Parker Quartet, Grammy Winning Quartet

• Jonathan Fanton, President of American Society of Arts and Sciences

• Ellen Langer, Mother of Mindfulness Theory and Psych Professor

• Keith Rollag, Dean of Babson, Babson Professor, Author of "Succeed in New Situations"

• Daniel L. Schacter, NYT Best Selling Author and Harvard Psychologist

• Kay Merseth, Senior Lecturer on Education and Faculty Director, Teacher Education Program

• Philip Lovejoy, Former HAA President

• Ben Waber, Founder of Humanyze

• Reverend Jeffrey Brown, Harvard Divinity School Fellow, created the "Boston Miracle"

• Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBS Professor for strategy, innovation, and leadership

• Douglas Stone, Co-author of of "Thanks for the Feedback"

• Sheila Heen, Co-author of "Thanks for the Feedback"

• Timothy McCarthy, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy

• Spencer Greenberg, Founder and CEO of Optimize Everything

• Mina Cikara, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and director of the Intergroup Neuroscience Lab

• Mihir Mankad, Professor of Practice in Leadership Communication, Deputy Director of the Edward R. Murrow Center

• Bill George, Author of "True North"; Arthur Fellow of Ethics, at Harvard Business School

• Nicole Noll, Lecturer in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
  Preceptor in Psychology

• Hugo Van Vuuren, Founder of the X Fund

• David Garvin, HBS professor, Author of "The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice"

• Uma R. Karmarkar, Assistant professor at UCSD School of Global Policy & Strategy

• James Mickens, Associate Professor of Computer Science

• David Cox, Neurophysiology of natural visual systems, artificial ones

• Joyce Chaplin, Ben Franklin's Historian

• Richard Harriman, CEO and Managing Partner of Synecticsworld

• John Finn, Massage Thereapist, Center for Wellness and Health Promotion

• Dr. Holly Parker, Ph.D. in experimental psychopathology

• Jelani Nelson, Professor of CS 125, CS 224, CS 124, CS 229r.

• Dr. Robert Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law; Founder of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program

• Annie Brewster, Health Story Collaborative Founder and Executive Director,
  Co-Director of Healing Story Sessions

• Denise Faustman, Runs the Immunobiology Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

• Bill Damon, Stanford Professor of adolescent development, cofounder of Ben Franklin Circles

• Shaye Cohen, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy

• Aditi Hazra, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Harvard Medical School

• Michelle Wu, first Taiwanese American and first Asian American woman on Boston City Council

• Brigette Libby, Assistant Dean for Academic Integrity and Student Conduct
  Lecturer on the Classics

• Brett Flehinger, Lecturer on History, Associate Dean of Academic Integrity and Student Conduct, Secretary of the Honor Council

• Anthony Pacillo, Associste Director of Residential Facilities

• Shaun Patel, junior faculty member in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

• Benjamin Zander, English conductor, who is currently the musical director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra

• Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Development of the American Economy program at the National Bureau of Economic Research

• Alan MacCormack, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of the HBS Digital Initiative, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program

• David Cavell, Former Presidential Speech Writer

• Joe Baccardo, HBS Prof on Business Ethics

• David Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science Co-Director, Harvard Data Science Initiative

• Howard Earl Gardner, World-renowned Psychologist

• Marc C. McGovern, Mayor of Cambridge

• Avi Loeb, Frank B. Baird, Jr., Professor of Science

• David Walt, pioneered the use of microwell arrays for single-molecule detection and analysis

• Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology, a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty, and the director of the Greene Lab at Harvard University

• Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity

• Anne Becker, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine

• Denise Simmons, former Mayor of Cambridge

• Fiery Cushman, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences

• George Baker, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School; Formerly Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration

• Lumumba Seegars, doctoral student in Organizational Behavior, a joint program with Harvard Business School and the Department of Psychology

• Alex Lupsasca, Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, High Energy Theory Group