Harvard Business School celebrates centennial
This year marks Harvard Business School’s centennial. Founded as part of Harvard University, Harvard Business School (HBS) is located on a 40-acre campus in Boston. April 8, 2008 marks 100 years to the day the Corporation of Harvard University voted to establish the business school and appointed Edwin F. Gay as its first dean. Its current faculty of more than 200 offers full-time programs leading to the MBA and doctoral degrees, as well as more than 40 Executive Education programs. It offered the world’s first MBA degree and has long nurtured new ideas and new knowledge.
This year, the HBS Centennial will celebrate the school’s rich history by bringing together some of the world’s foremost academic and business leaders to showcase groundbreaking research and engage in dynamic discussions about a wide array of major issues that affect both business and society, now and in the future.
The HBS Club of the Philippines will participate in the School’s global celebration with a Centennial Dialogue featuring HBS Professor Howard Stevenson, via live video conferencing, and Manuel Tordesillas. The night’s discussion is aptly called “From Hindsight to Foresight: Lessons from 100 Years of Market Volatility.”
Howard H. Stevenson is a Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation professor, senior associate dean, director of publishing, and chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. Manuel N. Tordesillas is president/CEO of ATR KimEng Capital Partners, Inc.
HBS popularized the Case Study Method, which it introduced to business education soon after the school was founded and is the core of how things are done at the school. Cases present students with real business problems in real companies and ask students what they would do to solve them. HBS students read about 500 cases during the two-year MBA program.
The HBS Club of the Philippines invites all Harvard Business School and Harvard University alumni to participate in this Centennial Dialogue on November 14, Friday, 6:30 p.m. at the Tower Club, 33rd floor, Philamlife Tower, 8767 Paseo de Roxas, Makati. For reservations, contact Johanna Razon (razon.jt@nrcp.com.ph) or Naty Hernandez (hernandez.ng@nrcp.com.ph) at 888-5263.
