Gloria Cordes Larson

GLORIA CORDES LARSON is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business leader, and former university president. She currently serves as a director on the company boards of Unum Group, Boston Private, and reacHIRE. In 2011, Larson launched the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University, which was named in her honor when she stepped down. She was named to the Power 50 by the Boston Business Journal and Boston Magazine, listed on The Commonwealth Institute’s roster of the Boston Globe Magazine’s Top 100 Women-led businesses in Massachusetts, and awarded the 2018 Ellen M. Zane Award for Visionary Leadership from Tufts Medical Center, and a Woman of the Year Award from the Wentworth Institute of Technology. Larson earned a BA with honors from Vassar College and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. She received honorary doctorate of laws degrees from Northeastern University in 2005 and Wachusetts Community College in 2003. @bentleyu