Invest in Our Mission
The Dean's Fund provides crucial flexible funding so HBS can continue to lead and innovate. Contributions to the Dean's Fund are put to immediate use as seed capital for new ideas and activities and to fuel critical initiatives. In particular, gifts support student aid, innovation in our educational programs, path—breaking research, global understanding, and more.
Student Financial Aid
Continued investment in fellowships ensures that HBS remains accessible to qualified students from all backgrounds. Such diversity enriches the learning experience for everyone. Currently, about half of the students enrolled in the MBA Program receive need-based fellowships.
Innovation in Educational Programs
HBS faculty are exploring ways to complement and enhance case-method learning. A new pedagogical approach called the "field method" will enable students to put skills and tools into practice through team-based, immersive, and global projects. In addition, multimedia cases, real world business simulations, and skill-building exercises help bring the world into the classroom.
Global Understanding
With the opening of the Harvard Center Shanghai in 2010, the School now has seven centers in key regions of the world. As HBS accelerates its efforts to deepen its global knowledge and understanding, the demands on these centers are increasing. Today one-third of the cases produced at HBS are global in scope, and these cases typically cost five times more to develop than their domestic counterparts.
Pathbreaking Research
The challenges facing business and society are complex and will not be solved through traditional, single discipline–based approaches. HBS faculty are working collaboratively, across conventional boundaries, to generate new thinking about business and the environment, corporate governance, education, and healthcare, among other topics.
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