Just came back from a visit to Harvard Business School and an inside tour of the school’s new innovation lab. Wow is all I can say. It’s a first class facility and completely different from anything else on campus. Modern doesn’t describe the up-to-date technology in this place. In each “hive,” there is a switch for a professor to flip that…[Read more]

Now here’s an interesting development. A team of Harvard Business School students just started a new microbusiness as part of the school’s new curriculum changes. The business sells complete essay sets from successful applicants for $100 a pop. This is the first time anyone has ever made available a complete set of successful essays. It’s a big…[Read more]

If you want to know what’s going on at Harvard under new Dean Nitin Nohria, this profile is a terrific way to start:

THE REINVENTION OF HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/30/the-reinvention-of-harvard-business-school/

Here’s our stories on the incoming HBS class for the fall of 2011:

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/06/harvard-down-on-finance-types/

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/06/22/hbs-liking-slightly-older-applicants/

Four members of the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2011 have been named winners of the School’s prestigious Dean’s Award. The recipients, who will be recognized as members of two teams by Dean Nitin Nohria at Commencement ceremonies on the HBS campus on May 26, are Andrea M. Ellwood, Brett C. Gibson, Kathleen M. Hebert, and Justine K.…[Read more]

Harvard Business School (HBS) held its 101st Commencement exercises on May 26, 2011. At the diploma ceremony, held on the green in front of Baker Library/Bloomberg Center, nine hundred and thirty-six students received their MBAs, while eight were awarded doctorates in business administration. In addition, in conjunction with the Harvard Graduate…[Read more]

Meet Andrew Rosenthal, a first-year MBA candidate at Harvard Business School who is a co-founder of the school’s new Startup Tribe, a group of students who want to launch companies out of HBS. Andrew has a highly compelling story of entrepreneurship that he brought to Harvard with him. He had been co-founder of a startup, Happier.com, that burned…[Read more]

Harvard has yet to release its Class of 2010 employment report, but it released some data to BusinessWeek the other day. At Harvard, median starting salaries fell by $4,000 to $110,000, and 95% of the Class of 2010 had jobs within three months of graduation. The year-earlier percentage was 8.8% so things the MBA employment picture is definitely improving.

Harvard has now notified all of its first round applicants: about 800 of them will be interviewed, while about 100 have been wait listed. The rest have been, in the euphemism of rejection, ”released.” If you’re scheduled for an interview, this advice from Sandy Kreisberg should be helpful: How NOT To Blow Your Harvard Business School Interview…[Read more]

New B-school smackdown: Harvard vs. Wharton. http://bit.ly/cjhGCc

Harvard Business School’s ”Dee” Leopold, managing director of admissions and financial services, on her pet peeves, common mistakes by applicants, her passion to shape a class that really jells, and the MBA candidate who wowed her. http://bit.ly/czZ2fc

Meet Brett Gibson, who serves as co-president of the MBA Student Association at Harvard Business School this year with Justine (below). Brett’s the kind of guy you would want for a son, especially if you’re my age! Check out: ”My Story: From an Army Ranger in Iraq to Harvard” http://bit.ly/a109BI

Meet Justine Lelchuk, a very impressive and charismatic second-year student at Harvard who is co-president of the MBA Student Association in My Story: From Deloitte Consulting to Harvard. http://bit.ly/90vAEo It’s another in a series called My Story, a first-person feature which chronicles the journey of top MBA students and grads.

Does a visit to Harvard Business School enhance your chance of admission? Not according to Dee Leopold, director of admissions and financial aid at HBS, who says there are no “command performances” at Harvard. On a recent blog post, here’s what she has to say on visiting the school:

“We always welcome visitors to campus. It’s beautiful here…[Read more]

Terrific video interview with new HBS Dean Nitin Nohira released on his first day in the new job. Very impressive. http://www.hbs.edu/dean/

What M.B.A. Program Produces the Highest Proportion of Wall Street Millionaires? Vanity Fair thinks it knows. Hint: One of those schools is the focus of this community. http://bit.ly/cmEHha