Campus Chronicles: The Harbus
Hello and welcome to Campus Chronicles, where we drop in on top business school programs to find out what’s happening on campus. This week we explore what the onset of fall has had in store for students at Harvard Business School by perusing its student-run publication, The Harbus.
Last Friday, Harvard’s U.S. Competitiveness Project hosted President Obama’s Jobs Council for a discussion on the future competitiveness of the U.S. economy. HBS professors Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter run the Competitiveness Project, an ongoing initiative to assess and strengthen the international economic competiveness of the United States. Jeffrey Immelt—Chair of the Jobs Council, CEO of General Electric and an HBS alum—was the special guest of the event, emphasizing to a packed Spangler auditorium that fostering a healthy and competitive American economy, the purpose for which the Council was convened by the President in 2009, is not zero sum in an international context. Other panelists, including U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, touched on issues ranging from the government’s role in the economy to immigration reform.
Also last week the HBS community celebrated the “topping-off” of construction on Tata Hall, the new home of the Advanced Management Program, named in honor of HBS alum Ratan Tata, who donated $50 million to the project. The completion of the first round of construction comes as a relief to some HBS students who complained frequently of being woken by the sounds of construction equipment. Work on the building has also caused traffic concerns, complicating student trips into Cambridge. However, when the hall is completed in December 2013 it will significantly boost the number of living and classroom spaces for potential executive education students.
Finally, HBS students and members of the Partners’ Club sojourned to Tougas Farms for a day of apple picking, celebrating the start to autumn in New England. The Partners’ Club organizes events throughout the year designed to bring together the significant others of HBS students. The Club also organizes a number of philanthropic activities throughout the year and offers a support network for HBS students with children, Crimson Kids. On their trip, the group explored the cooking properties of sundry apple varieties including Macoun, Jonagold, Topaz, Empire, Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp, McIntosh, Gala, Courtland and Musu, and utilized strong problem solving and analytical skills to reason that purchasing them in large, half-bushel bags was the best deal.
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