Mon 02/02/2006 11:55 AM
I started HBS in 1992, and graduated on schedule, in 1994. The main reason that I'm glad I went is that people in business seem to automatically afford you a certain level of respect if you have an MBA from Harvard. The second reason I I'm glad I went is that there's a lot of extremely smart people there, so you're put in a situation where you're forced to get pretty clever pretty quickly. The third reason I went is that the instruction is sincerely good, although this varies widely by discipline. We had a course on management communication that was useless. Several of the other courses seemed cobbled together from disparate fields in a way that made no sense. But make no mistake - this is the only B-School to go to if you get in.