From the Dean

Dear Friends,

I am delighted to share with you the 2016 Annual Report for Harvard Business School. As you will see in the pages that follow, we continue to make remarkable progress on our strategic “5i” priorities of innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration. At the same time, we are investing in the core programs and activities that have distinguished the School since its founding.

In the MBA Program, for instance, you’ll see examples of efforts to broaden the pipeline of outstanding young women and men, to further strengthen and refine the curriculum, and to ensure that our graduates are able to pursue their passions when they leave the School. In Executive Education, we now have amazing facilities – including the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, which opened in June – that match the aspirations of the faculty. The Doctoral Programs attract the most promising future scholars, and we train them to be outstanding teachers and researchers. And our newest educational platform, HBX, is expanding its portfolio of offerings to reach an ever-growing audience of learners.

Exciting opportunities are on the horizon. Work has begun in earnest on the new facility that will house the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences across Western Avenue. In tandem with a growing i-lab ecosystem and University plans for an enterprise research campus, it’s increasingly possible to see how Allston will be transformed over the next decade, making Boston a destination for innovation and entrepreneurship.

All of our efforts, past and future, are made possible by our generous alumni, and The Harvard Business School Campaign (launched in 2014) is helping shape the School’s legacy for the 21st century. We are grateful for the support our alumni provide and the example they set.

I invite you to read further to learn about the initiatives and achievements of the past year.

Nitin Nohria
Dean of the Faculty