Create New Knowledge
Harvard Business School educates leaders, a mission that relies on creating and disseminating knowledge about leadership issues. Technology plays a crucial role in this effort by supporting faculty in their research, analysis, and development of cases and courses, as well as delivering this new knowledge to academic and business communities worldwide.
Enhance the Learning Experience
HBS uses instructional technology to bring the world into the classroom, engage students with course material in new ways, and foster a dynamic exchange of ideas. Since technology surrounds students from day one, it quickly becomes part of their daily lives, helping them build expertise that serves them from the classroom to the boardroom.
Build Community
IT fosters relationships on campus and worldwide with faculty, staff, students, alumni, companies, and business leaders. HBS is truly an electronic community. Our innovative use of technology lets students, faculty, staff, alumni, and business leaders interact as easily across the globe as they do across the hall.
Create the Integrated Enterprise
Creating the integrated enterprise refers to tying all of the School's data and content together into a seamless, accessible system that enables us to leverage the vast array of information collected by our constituents. An example of an integrated enterprise is one that can track an individual from the time she shows interest in one of our programs to her admittance into that program, to her becoming an alumna, starting a company, hiring HBS students into company jobs, and then becoming a donor. A centrally managed enterprise-wide database is a key asset in creating the integrated enterprise.
