Harvard School of Business

Harvard Business School

Coat of arms of the School
Type	Private business school
Established	1908
Endowment	US$3.0 billion (2014)
Dean	Nitin Nohria
Academic staff	200
Administrative staff	1,100
Students	2,009 (1,859 in MBA) (150 in Ph.D.)
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. 42°22′02″N 71°07′21″W / 42.36722°N 71.12253°W / 42.36722; -71.12253Coordinates: 42°22′02″N 71°07′21″W / 42.36722°N 71.12253°W / 42.36722; -71.12253
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	Harvard University
Website	HBS.edu

Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a large full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, HBX and many executive education programs.

It owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership articles, online management tools for corporate learning, case studies, and the monthly Harvard Business Review.

The school started in 1908. Initially established by the humanities faculty, it received independent status in 1910, and became a separate administrative unit in 1913. The first dean was historian Edwin Francis Gay (1867–1946).

Yogev (2001) explains the original concept:

From the start the school enjoyed a close relationship with the corporate world. Within a few years of its founding many business leaders were its alumni and were hiring other alumni for starting positions in their firms.

At its founding, the school accepted only male students. The Training Course in Personnel Administration, founded at Radcliffe College in 1937, was the beginning of business training for women at Harvard. HBS took over administration of that program from Radcliffe in 1954. In 1959, alumnae of the one-year program (by then known as the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration) were permitted to apply to join the HBS MBA program as second-years. In December 1962, the faculty voted to allow women to enter the MBA program directly. The first women to apply directly to the MBA program matriculated in September 1963.

HBS established nine global research centers and four regional offices and functions through offices in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore), California, Europe (Paris), South Asia (India), Middle East and North Africa (Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv), Japan and Latin America (Buenos Aires, Mexico City, São Paulo).