Harvard Business School to set up third overseas campus in M'sia

The Malaysian government and the Harvard University’s graduate business school have recently reached an understanding to set up a site campus in Kuala Lumpur.


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27 Feb, 2018

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WORLD-RENOWNED Harvard Business School (HBS) has chosen Malaysia as the base of its third overseas campus outside the US, after China and India.

Sources close to the development told The Malaysian Reserve that the Malaysian government and the Harvard University’s graduate business school have recently reached an understanding to set up a site campus in Kuala Lumpur.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Razak is expected to make an official announcement on the matter, the sources added.

A delegation comprising HBS management officials and professors recently visited Malaysia for a final discussion and site visit.

“The delegation was also brought to visit some successful Malaysian firms, for them to discover the case studies and business journal potentials in this country as well.

“They (the delegation) were amazed at some of the corporate turnaround and success stories that the companies had to share,” said the sources, which cannot be named as the information is private.

HBS is expected to open a “Harvard Centre” in Malaysia, offering key executive leadership programmes.

Sources said HBS will emulate the concept of existing Harvard Centres in Shanghai, China, and Mumbai, India, here.

“The Harvard Centre will be offering their key leadership executive programmes which are well recognised in the global job market.”

As part of the understanding reached to date, the sources said the proposed Harvard Centre will train 10 Malaysian professors annually to produce Harvard-standard journals which can later be published by the US university.

“One professor from HBS will be based in Kuala Lumpur to train the local professors.

“The delegation felt that there are adequate resources in the Malaysian economy and corporate sectors to be written as journals, thus making it available in Harvard’s archive for future reference,” one source said.

HBS is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

It offers a large full-time MBA (Master of Business Administration) programme, doctoral programmes and various executive education programmes.

HBS launched its first executive education programme in 1945. Since then, the programmes have been attended by almost 200,000 business leaders from 200 countries.

Currently, HBS offers over 120 programmes around the world that attract more than 10,000 executives each year.

It offers almost 70 openenrolment programmes currently in HBS Boston, Shanghai and Mumbai campuses.

Among notable alumni of HBS include central bank governor Tan Sri Muhammad Ibrahim, businessman Michael Bloomberg, former US President George W Bush, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Indian industrialist Ratan Tata.


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This article was first published by P Prem Kumar on The Malaysian Reserve

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