Student Life
Partners and Families
When students come to HBS with partners or families, the entire HBS community is enriched. That's why HBS strives to create a warm and welcoming environment from the moment they arrive.
Not only is our community enriched by partners and families, it is enlarged and enlivened. More than 500 registered partners belong to nearly 30 percent of our MBA students. Of all registered partners, approximately 15 percent have children.
In addition to being an integral part of everyday life on the HBS campus, partners can deepen their community involvement in two ways: by registering with MBA Student and Academic Services for the MBA Partner Program, and/or by joining the Partners' Club.
MBA Partner Program Managed by MBA Student and Academic Services
MBA offers opportunities and services to help students' husbands, wives, fiancés, fiancées, boyfriends, girlfriends, and partners from around the world transition to life at HBS, meet one another, and integrate fully into the HBS community. All partners are welcomed and encouraged to attend HBS-sponsored partner events, join HBS clubs, and take advantage of campus services.
“One of the things that impresses me about the HBS experience is how people from myriad different backgrounds, faiths, cultures, and countries come together in a spirit of mutual respect and tolerance. I was skeptical that such community values could exist, but at HBS they are more than an ideal, they are a way of life. ”
Bill Crawford MBA '06
Partners eligible to register with HBS receive many of the same great benefits as students, like:
- HBS e-mail accounts
- Access to the partners' website
- HBS Partner ID card
- Access to MBA Career & Professional Development
- And more...
Please contact partners@hbs.edu for more information.
Partners' Club Managed by current MBA partners
The Partners' Club was founded in 1984 as a unique and independent community for the "significant others" of HBS students. Members rely on each other as they adjust to a new lifestyle, find friendship among people who have faced similar emotions and experiences moving to a new community, and enjoy this new and different phase of their lives together.
Social, cultural and informational activities for club members offer opportunities to be involved in the Harvard and greater Boston community. From book clubs to dinners to children's playgroups and field trips to local Boston activities and sporting events to volunteer opportunities, partners and families build real community as members of the Partners' Club.
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