Visit HBS
By virtue of its immersion in the case method, the richness of its section life, and the depth and breadth of its extracurricular activities, the HBS MBA Program is best appreciated through direct experience. If you are interested in applying, we encourage you to visit our campus. In addition to in-person visits, you also have many opportunities to engage with students, faculty, and admissions staff online and through outreach events around the world.
Campus Map
View a detailed map of the HBS campus, get directions, or take a virtual tour by clicking on the "Campus Slideshow" link on our HBS Maps and Directions page.
On-Campus Activites for May 2008
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Class Visit Program
For many of our students, the excitement, energy and unexpected insights generated by case method education make it unlike anything they have experienced before. We invite you to satisfy your curiosity by observing a class in session. Class visits may be scheduled between two and thirty days in advance. Due to the number of visit requests we receive, we ask that you schedule only one class visit through the MBA Admissions Office. You may select the class visit time, but not the individual class.
To view the schedule of class visits for the Winter 2008 term, visit our Class Visit Schedule page.
Use our online scheduling tool to arrange a class visit within a month's notice. If you have any questions, please email classvisits@hbs.edu.
Please note that visiting a class is not a requirement for admission and is in no way linked to the application evaluation process.
Campus Tour and Information Sessions
Group information sessions, in which members of the MBA Admissions team conduct overviews of the MBA Program and answer your questions, are offered Monday through Friday at 4:00pm from October 2007 through April 29, 2008. From April 30, 2008 through May 9, 2008, the sessions will be offered daily at 3:00pm. For the rest of the month of May 2008, information sessions will be held on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 1:00pm. In June and July 2008, information sessions will be held only on Mondays and Fridays at 1:00pm. From August 2008 through September 2008, the sessions will be held daily at 1:00pm. Registration is not required. Information sessions will not be held when the Admissions Office is closed.
Student-led campus tours are offered at 3:00pm Monday through Friday from October 2007 - April 29, 2008. These tours leave from the Admissions Office in Dillon House. We also offer a campus audio-walking tour which is available at the reception desk in the MBA Admissions office. You can also download the the audio tour (.mp3) along with a campus tour map prior to your visit.
Please call the MBA Admissions office to confirm the location of information sessions.
Lunch Program
First year MBA students are happy to meet with prospective students over a casual lunch to share their experiences and to answer any questions that you might have about life at HBS. The Lunch Program is held daily at noon when classes are in session. The Program will resume again in late January 2008. Registration is not required for the lunch program. Please contact or visit the Admissions Office to find the location of the lunch.
In college, teachers talked for an hour then you left to remember what you could. Here the case method pushes me to speak on topics I don't completely understand. I'm becoming more articulate, more thoughtful about major world issues.
My wife and I were accepted by seven other business schools. But Harvard was the only one we knew we'd regret if we didn't go. 
In the beginning of the first term there's more talking than listening. Then as we become more experienced, there's a shift to listening. A lot more listening.
In the beginning, I didn't always have the right answers. But that's not a bad thing—here I learned that there is no one right answer. HBS encourages different perspectives. Suddenly it clicked—I have more to offer than I thought.
Cases not only require students to understand and analyze content, but also to make decisions. You learn how to defend your position on your feet, even when that position is based on imperfect information. I've found the experience incredibly rewarding, beyond my expectations.
I want something more than just work, more than just numbers. It's about passion. I want to contribute to the growth of Latin America.
In class, there's a lot of role playing in difficult situations. It's our chance to practice our management styles with our section mates. Every day, I feel like I'm sitting in a board room making decisions with people who are equally capable. With each case, I become more confident in my arguments and in my ability to express myself.
The case method teaches you to develop better ways of approaching a business challenge, of how to think it through. With so many points of view being presented, you learn to separate the person from the argument, so that you're judging arguments, not people.
I've learned a number of practical skills here. Things like trimming operating processes. Working through time-management issues. Taking a structural approach to pricing. The program is very challenging, but I've learned more in the past eight months than in four years of college.
The discussion of race raised in an HBS case was so enlightening that our professor organized further conversation after class to talk about the history of race relations in the United States and what we could do to improve it. I came out of that class and thought, 'Today, my perspective is bigger than it used to be.'
Having access to Financial Aid played a huge role in my decision to come to HBS. Just knowing that all I needed to worry about was getting admitted was a huge relief! An MBA education is an expensive venture. With Financial Aid, HBS turned my dream into reality. 