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To a remarkable extent, today's HBS campus reflects the original 1926 plan by McKim, Mead & White, despite the School's growth and adoption of cutting-edge technologies. Building on that strong initial planning effort, HBS inaugurated a cycle of 10-year master plans in 1986, 1996, and 2006. The latest effort, undertaken in the context of Harvard University's planning for its expansion in Allston, emphasizes the School's commitment to the ongoing stewardship of its physical resources.
The majority of the campus was built in one ambitious effort beginning in 1926. In recognition of the School's intent to provide a cohesive academic experience for students, the original plan specified a gymnasium and a nondenominational chapel. These buildings were not actually realized until after the 1986 plan, when Shad Hall and the Class of 1959 Chapel were constructed.
Sustainable Campus Initiative
Formally launched in May 2005, this initiative has had a major impact:
- HBS has completed more than 25 energy conservation projects, resulting in annual savings of more than $550,000. These projects include a smart lawn sprinkler that monitors weather and operates only when water is needed and a cogeneration plant in Shad Hall that produces on-site electricity and uses the waste heat from the engine to produce hot water. The estimated savings from each of these two examples is over $50,000 per year.
- By maximizing utility rebates, HBS has saved more than $640,000 in utility costs annually.
- Conservation efforts resulted in offsetting of more than 5 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions annually.
- In fiscal 2007, 54 percent of the School's daily-use waste was recycled, against a Harvard-wide goal of 50 percent and up 16 percent from fiscal 2005.
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification is being pursued for five recently renovated buildings.
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1926
The original McKim, Mead & “outdoor rooms” for events and White plan established the ceremonial occasions as well as overall design principles that to provide opportunities for inter-continue to make the HBS campus action in daily life. HBS continues distinctive today: an orientation this tradition by maintaining toward the Charles River, an axial open spaces, creating new ones, alignment of buildings, and a and emphasizing a walking rather focus on open space as well as on than a vehicular environment. buildings. This plan called for
1986
The 1986 plan returned the campus to its original pedestrian orientation by limiting vehicular traffic in the interior and creating a formal entry with expanded parking on the Western Avenue edge. This effort also produced the current athletic facility and chapel, brought faculty offices together in the vicinity of Baker Library and Morgan Hall, and increased housing for Executive Education.
1996
In 1996, a new planning effort defined the need for a student hub, resulting in Spangler Center. The plan also called for completing Executive Education housing, the renovation and expansion of Baker Library, and the renovation of the residence halls—all either finished or nearly so in 2007.
2006
The most recent plan focuses on moves parking underground enhancing communication and to create room for growth— social interaction through the including a formal entrance from creation of green space flowing the south and new buildings to east-west between the original house faculty and staff, as well and new sections of the campus. as additional classrooms and Along Western Avenue, the plan smaller breakout spaces.
Original Campus New Baker Way Area of Future Growth
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