Harvard Business School is a community of people engaged in many activities focused on one purpose—developing leaders. Our MBA graduates use the skills they develop here to inspire change and innovation throughout their lives—in business and in other organizations, in their communities, and in society.
Among the key features that distinguish the HBS MBA experience are:General management focus
As a general management program, the MBA curriculum is designed to provide students with a foundation of knowledge, insights, and abilities that gives them the flexibility to achieve success in a wide range of sectors, industries, and functions in any country in the world. Today, our global network of alumni is at work in small businesses as well as in large multi-national enterprises. They manage trillions of dollars of assets and they are the angels behind start-ups. They run hospitals and churches, turn around ailing giants, and launch innovative new companies. They are the energy and wisdom behind thousands of nonprofit organizations in education, the arts, community development, and the environment. And they serve at every level in governments around the globe.
Learn more: MBA CurriculumThe case methodAbout 80 percent of the classes in the MBA program are taught via the case method, a practical approach to learning where students work under the guidance of a faculty member to address real business problems in all their innate complexity and ambiguity. In a typical class, students work together—often drawing on their own diverse backgrounds and experience—to sift through incomplete and conflicting data and perspectives in order to determine a clear course of action. Through the 500 cases they face in their two years at HBS, students refine their analytical skills, develop their skill in decision making and judgment, strengthen their ability to work with others, and build a framework of knowledge and experience that they can maintain throughout their careers. More than 30 percent of the cases taught each year are new, allowing faculty to keep the curriculum in tune with continuing developments in the global marketplace.
Learn more: The Case MethodGlobal reach HBS reaches across the globe to bring the latest challenges and opportunities of the international marketplace into the classroom. With the support of the School's unique network of Global Research Centers in key regions—Asia-Pacific (including the Japan Research Office), Silicon Valley, Latin America, India, and Europe—faculty are working with leaders of industry, government, and academia worldwide to conduct research and develop cases that capture key business developments wherever they occur. And the students themselves, who come from over seventy countries around the world, greatly enrich the case method approach to learning by bringing their diverse perspectives to bear on class discussions. Reflecting the global nature of the HBS community, over 20,000 alumni in 40 countries throughout the world belong to 117 HBS alumni clubs and associations.
Learn more: Global Initiative,
Faculty & ResearchA community experience The HBS campus is a diverse residential community designed specifically to impart the knowledge, instill the values, and forge the relationships that are the enduring legacy of the HBS student experience. For the full first year, MBA students are grouped into sections that take all of their classes together, creating a close atmosphere of cooperation and teamwork that builds friendships that endure for a lifetime. Outside the classroom, students join in an extraordinary range of activities including seminars, club events, study groups, guest speakers, meetings, sports, and social events. And as alumni, students become a part of a remarkable network of 65,000 individuals that spans the globe.
Learn more: Section Life,
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ValuesAn exceptional campus Among its thirty-three buildings clustered on forty acres along the Charles River are two buildings of amphitheater-style classrooms, one of the world's leading business libraries, stately residence halls, spacious dining facilities, a thriving student center, and a fully equipped fitness center—all dedicated to the needs of our students. One of the most sophisticated information technology environments in higher education is integrated into all aspects of the student experience, creating links to people and resources in the classroom, on the campus, and around the world.
Learn more: Campus Slide Show,
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ITInterdisciplinary initiatives Interdisciplinary research projects are cross-disciplinary efforts that draw together members of the faculty from throughout the School (and in some cases, the University) to investigate ideas that change the way managers think and act. HBS sponsors School-wide initiatives to generate research output, courses, programs, and partnerships in these key areas:
- The Entrepreneurship Initiative was formed with the notion that a top business school should be an "incubator of ideas", providing the resources and support to explore new ideas and to learn how to take a new company boldly into the future.
- The Global Initiative was established to build on the School’s long history of international involvement. Our unprecedented global research centers in Silicon Valley; Hong Kong; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Mumbai, India; and Paris, France, each headed by an HBS MBA graduate, help faculty build even stronger relationships with companies, universities, and governments worldwide to address the rapidly evolving demands of an increasingly global marketplace.
- The Healthcare Initiative integrates the extensive research, thought leadership, and interest in the business and management of healthcare that thrives at HBS.
- The Leadership Initiative drives the School’s mission of educating leaders who make a difference by ensuring that HBS remains at the forefront of leadership research and development for the 21st century and beyond.
- The Social Enterprise Initiative plays a critical role in the School’s mission by integrating social enterprise-related research, teaching, and activities into HBS daily life, and offering students from all sectors learning opportunities to prepare for leadership roles in social enterprise and cross-sector careers.
Learn more: Interdisciplinary Research, Academics
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