Harvard University’s legal challenge to the Trump administration’s federal research-funding actions drew an additional wave of support, with nearly 11,000 Harvard graduates filing an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Among the signatories, nearly 900 are Harvard Business School alumni—including 881 HBS graduates listed as holding an MBA, DBA, or HBS Executive Education certificate—reflecting cross-school backing for the case President and Fellows of Harvard College v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The brief positions Harvard’s research enterprise at the center of the dispute over billions in federal funding, which Harvard framed as a year-long conflict with the administration. The article notes the HBS contingent’s composition across graduating decades and cites lead counsel Anurima Bhargava describing the stakes as spanning Harvard’s institutional values. The expanded coalition increases institutional signaling that universities may need to defend federal award eligibility and process fairness in appellate forums—not only at agencies or trial courts.