Harvard Business School Spent ‘Tens Of Millions Of Dollars’ To Convert Classrooms To Hybrid Formats

One of the new hybrid classrooms at Harvard Business School that cost HBS “tens of millions of dollars’

To shift into hybrid teaching mode during the pandemic, the Harvard Business School invested “tens of millions of dollars” to redesign and outfit 16 of its classrooms for MBA students. But new Dean Srikant M. Datar, considers the cost well worth it.

In a Zoom webinar session with HBS alumni 116 days into his new deanship, Datar today (April 27) said the results of those investments have opened up new possibilities In online learning for MBA students, alumni of the school and executive education participants. The experiments will likely lead to some changes in how students are taught in the MBA program and could allow the school to invite alumni into elective classes remotely.

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