Course Number 2195 Professor Robert S. Huckman Visiting Professor Amitabh Chandra (Harvard Kennedy School) Fall, Q1, 1.5 credits 14 sessions Exam Enrollment limited to 45 students A 3-credit (Q1Q2) version of this course is offered as Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery (course number 6219). At the root of the transformation occurring in the health care industry-both in the United States and internationally-is the fundamental challenge of improving clinical outcomes while controlling costs. Addressing this challenge will require dramatic improvements in the process…

A) Verify with your home school registrar that your school is eligible to cross register into Tufts University, Brown University and Episcopal Divinity School and what the cross registration process is. Non Harvard Students must create an XID prior to Cross Registering for courses at Harvard University. The XID will be used only for cross registration. Be sure to use your school email address to create an XID Your login name can be your school email address or you can choose a login name of your choice. Once you create an XID, you will use your login name to log into Course…

Most undergraduates typically work for at least two years before applying to an M.B.A. program. Many decide to apply only after knowing: That they had enough career experience and insight to set practical goals, and How their M.B.A. investment would pay off personally and professionally. Business schools do not favor one industry over another for work experience, so look for opportunities in an area that most interests you where you can demonstrate accomplishment and leadership in that field. HBS 2+2 HBS 2+2 is an “early admissions” program unique to the Harvard Business School…

The Dean’s House was part of the original campus design and made possible by the George F. Baker founding gift. The Dean’s House was designed by Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott. Construction was completed in 1929, two years after the dedication of the first 12 HBS buildings and just two years before the death of George F. Baker, the prominent banker who funded the construction of Harvard Business School’s original campus. The brick, 10, 978-square-foot Georgian Revival-style building includes a gracious entry hall, study, living room, dining room, kitchen, and pantry on…

Harvard Business School Launches First Online Offering HBX CORe will teach the language of business to undergrads, non-business grad students and those early in their careers ShareBar BOSTON—Harvard Business School today announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings, including HBX CORe, a primer on the fundamentals of business. “The HBX launch marks an important milestone in…

For several hundred years, the greatest universities in the world rubbed along with simple mottos. For Harvard, Veritas. For Oxford, Dominus Illuminatio Mea. But then along came business schools and the curse of the mission statement. A mission statement can make sense for a company. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Clear, lofty, but understandable and from what we’ve seen so far, achievable. But try and apply a mission statement to the far messier world of an educational institution and you get something…

A two-year, full-time residential program with a focus on real-world practice—in the classroom using the case method, which puts students into the role of decision makers every day, and in the field with student teams developing new products or services for real global business partners and starting their own microbusinesses. Open enrollment and custom programs that focus on a range of timely topics, including leadership, strategy, finance, entrepreneurship, and innovation. Delivered on our Boston campus, in classrooms in Mumbai and Shanghai, and in other locations around the…

Application Deadlines Round 1: September 7th, 2016 Round 2: January 4th, 2017 Round 3: April 3rd, 2017 When people think about the MBA degree, the very first school that springs to mind is Harvard Business School (HBS). HBS is synonymous with the degree and literally sets the pace for the industry. Everything it does instantly makes news–both good and bad. And Harvard’s new dean, Nitin Nohria, has immediately injected energy and enthusiasm in the school. Since assuming leadership of HBS on July 1, 2010, Nohria has racked up accomplishments that would have taken some B-school…

BOSTON—Harvard Business School (HBS) is pleased to announce the launch of a new online series, , which takes the School’s legendary case method and distills it into podcast form. Twice monthly, host and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Brian Kenny invites an HBS professor to take listeners behind the scenes of a case he or she has written, probing what inspired the case, exploring how it relates to management practice, and delving into interesting anecdotes that come from researching the case and teaching it in the classroom. Co

On behalf of the Africa Business Club, a student club at Harvard Business School, we are honored to have you join us at the 19th Annual Africa Business Conference. We look forward to a weekend of sharing and gaining perspectives as we explore this year’s theme - “Partnering for Prosperity: Working Together for a Strong & Inclusive Africa.” In planning this conference, our objective has been to embrace holistic viewpoints as we examine the relationships between the stakeholders that, together, will unlock the potential of African economies. Our

A joint degree offered by the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Business School, the PhD in business economics combines economic analysis with the practical aspects of business. This degree is primarily intended to prepare students for careers in research and teaching in business administration and related fields of economics. Possible fields of specialization include corporate finance, organizations and markets, international business, business strategy and industrial organization, corporate governance, and business and government

Are you confident that your company is effectively handling potential customers’ online queries? Think hard. Our research shows that most companies are not responding nearly fast enough. Companies in financial services, automobiles, education, software, health care, professional services, and many other industries have increasingly turned to the internet to generate sales leads. Indeed, corporate spending on online advertising aimed at drumming up leads to potential customers soared from $12.5 billion in 2005 to $22.7