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Harvard University Business School Overview

By: Harvard University

The Business School at Harvard University offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, e-commerce, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, general management, health care administration, human resources management, international business, leadership, manufacturing and technology management, marketing, not-for-profit management, production/operations management, organizational behavior, portfolio management, public administration, public policy, real estate, sports business, supply chain management/logistics, quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research, tax, and technology. Its tuition is full-time: $73,440 per year. At graduation, 69 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed. Graduate students at Harvard Business School learn by the case method, which challenges them to think in the role of the case protagonist when analyzing and discussing real-life business cases. Students have experiential learning opportunities where they’re able to apply classroom theory in the field. These opportunities enable students to be immersed in different cities around the world and work in small teams with real firms on business projects.

HBS students can complete an MBA or doctoral degree and can also enroll in joint degree programs in conjunction with Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Students may live on campus in Boston.

To supplement their education, students can assume leadership positions in more than 95 clubs. The annual HBS Show, a live musical production put on by MBA students, adds some levity into the rigorous course schedule.

There are nearly 90,000 graduates of HBS, scores of whom have gone on to lead major corporations. Some of the particularly notable alumni include James Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook); Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon; and Michael Bloomberg, co-founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P. and former mayor of New York City.

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