Gloria Cordes Larson is a respected lawyer, public policy expert, Boston business leader, and former university president. Following her eleven-year tenure as President of Bentley University, Larson served as President in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

She currently serves as a director on the board of Unum Group, a public company, as well as a member of two private company boards, reacHIRE and Christie Campus Health. Larson also serves on the boards of several national and regional non-profit organizations, including McLean Hospital, the MA Conference for Women, and the Executive Committee of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

From 2007 until June 2018, Larson served as the President of Bentley University, located in Waltham, MA. During her tenure, Bentley achieved university status, was nationally recognized for its distinctive integration of business and the liberal arts, named a Top 10 undergraduate business school by Bloomberg Businessweek, and repeatedly ranked #1 in the country for both career services and internship programs by The Princeton Review.