Archive for March, 2008

Student Life

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Students can join one or more of the more than 75 clubs on campus. The clubs invite speakers to campus, organize trips, social events, and help forming bonds between students of similar interests. The Student Association is the main interface between the MBA student body and the faculty/administration. It is led by a four-person Executive […]

Business Plan Contest

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Business Plan Contest is jointly sponsored by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the HBS Entrepreneurship Club and the Social Enterprise Club. The contest consists of the “traditional” for-profit track and the “social enterprise” track, for those plans with an explicitly social agenda. The winner of the traditional track contest […]

Immersion Experience

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

HBS offers immersion programs to supplement in-class room academic experience. These programs are designed to integrate educational objectives with other elements that the student-led treks offer. Through this experience, studetns are “immersed” in academic, cultural, and organization fieldwork around the world. The program is spans an intensive five to twelve-day during January. The programs offered […]

Academic honors

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The top academic honor at Harvard Business School is the Baker Scholar designation (High Distinction), given to the top 5% of the graduating MBA class. In a typical year a Baker Scholar will have achieved “1s” in approximately 70 - 75% of his course credits. Students receiving honors (top 20%) in both their first and […]

MBA Program

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Harvard Business School offers a two-year full time MBA program, which consists of one year of mandatory courses (Required Curriculum) and one year of unrestricted course selection (Elective Curriculum). Admission to the MBA program is one of the most selective graduate programs in the world[citation needed], with an admission rate of 15% for the class […]