The Harvard Business School (‘HBS’) is located on a campus in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States of America. It was established in 1908 offering the world’s first Master of Business Administration programme. It currently offers both masters and doctoral programmes.  Apart from the campus in Boston, HBS has ten global research centres and five regional offices as part of its efforts to develop expertise in global business practice and innovation. This includes a current business environment initiative extending wide ranging efforts on climate change and how that affects business innovation and business generally.

In addition to a global alumni network, HBS has a faculty of 244 members engaged in teaching, ‘pioneering’ research and publications.  HBS operates Harvard Business Publishing and the Harvard Business Review, the latter’s circulation being at the highest in its history. This research and publication is intended to shape management practices to make a positive difference in the world. In doing so, faculty members engage directly with managers, entrepreneurs and executives about what makes businesses succeed and fail. This field knowledge generates new research and course materials. Environmental, social and governance issues are examined in this research and publication.

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Harvard Business School has an endowment fund comprised of donations from individual donors, corporations and alumni.  It receives revenue from investment of the endowment, the courses it provides both on campus and on line, its publishing activities and an analytics service that provides market research.  Other revenue sources are referred to as ‘housing, rents and other’.

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