I think the Harvard trend is probably too little to late on their part. Having worked on both coasts in a variety of companies I didn't even know Harvard had an engineering dept.
Harvard has a small, elite engineering and applied sciences school, so you'd generally encounter their grads at elite companies and research institutions, leaning more towards applied science research than what's commonly pictured as "engineering".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_John_A._Paulson_School...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_John_A._Paulson_School...
Harvard invented one of the first computers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I
What you might be misremembering is that
> In February 2007, the Harvard Corporation and Overseers voted for the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences to change its name to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).