Harvard Business School

Established in 1636, Harvard is known as the breeding ground of the corporates. It is the alma mater of many notable entrepreneurs: Steve Ballmer, President and CEO of Microsoft; Bruce Henderson, Founder of Boston Consulting Group; Bill gates, Co-Founder and Chairman of Microsoft; Dustin Moskovitz and Mark Zuckerberh, Co-Founders of Facebook; and many more. Harvard is also the alma mater of 62 living billionaires, and has more than 323,000 alumni around the world.

Harvard offers a general management degree, rather than specialized ones and offers 96 electives to choose from, which are filled through a lottery system. It offers the students who have the elective curricula to complete a field study or an independent research in lieu of a class, which allows them to launch new products, develop new business, or research a real world issue. Harvard follows a case teaching method, where the students prepare a case and discuss them, with the professor as a moderator. It has more than 75 clubs, which help form bonds between students of similar interests. The HBS Business plan Contest, allows students to formulate plans “for-profit” and “social enterprise”. The academic settings, along with the extracurricular activities, help students from diverse backgrounds to face challenges in any functional area and bring out the entrepreneur in them.