USASBE Cites HBS as National Model for Encouraging Entrepreneurship

It's one thing to call your entrepreneurship education efforts the best, but it's another when more than 950 of your peers from around the country do. The entrepreneurship program at Harvard Business School (HBS) recently won the top award for MBA programs nationwide from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), an organization devoted to entrepreneurship education and development. USASBE named Harvard Business School as its National Model MBA Program winner at the organization's annual conference in Dallas on Jan. 17-19.

HBS has offered courses in entrepreneurship for more than half a century and counts among its 65,000 graduates some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs. Thirty-one faculty are enrolled in the Entrepreneurial Management unit and another 30 whose work is directly related to entrepreneurship are in other units. The program also requires its 900 first-year students to take the course "The Entrepreneurial Manager," and the school offers nearly 20 elective courses in entrepreneurship to second-year students.

The school's Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship has supported entrepreneurship efforts since 2003. Beyond the curriculum, the Rock Center also organizes an annual Business Plan Contest, coordinates the activities at the HBS California Research Center in Silicon Valley, and publishes New Business, a twice-yearly overview of entrepreneurial interests and pursuits at HBS.

In addition to supporting a variety of faculty projects, the fund that established the Rock Center also provides fellowships for MBA and doctoral students, underwrites symposia and conferences on entrepreneurship, and develops new publications and websites to extend the reach and impact of the school's work in this field.

More information is available at http://www.hbs.edu.