Harvard University

 

Harvard Business School

 

Founded in 1908, HBS offers diverse programs including doctoral programs, a full time MBA program, and executive education programs. 

 

For its MBA program, HBS has launched the HBS 2+2 Program, which entails two years of work after graduating from college with the help of a career coach and another two years of immersion in the Harvard Business School MBA program.

 

HBS currently features the “Program for Leadership Development,” an executive education program.  Other executive education programs in the forthcoming months will include “Strategic Negotiations,” “Agribusiness Seminar — An Asian Offering,” which is a new program offered in China that will place an emphasis on innovations in the agribusiness industry — and “Leadership Best Practices – California,” presenting innovative research, the most recent leadership results, sessions on organizational adaptation, human dynamics, and personal leadership development.

 

As part of its centennial celebration, HBS has also initiated an “Institutional Memory” website that shows the school’s history through personal accounts of faculty, students, alumni, and staff.

 

Harvard Law School

 

Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School (HLS) is situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its curriculum offers over 260 courses and seminars that encompass a vast array of conventional and rising legal fields.  The school offers degree programs in Juris Doctor (J.D.), Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), and Master of Laws (LL.M.).  The school also provides a multitude of research programs and centers; a few of them include: the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Child Advocacy Program, the European Law Research Center and the Human Rights Program.

 

Harvard Law School has also recently initiated the Northwest Corner Project, which will give rise to a 250,000 square feet complex that will be situated at the corner of Everett Street and Massachusetts Avenue.  The new site will hold three centers namely the Academic Center, the Student Center, and the Clinical Center.

 

Structural Geology & Earth Resources Group

 

This group is focused on initiatives to identify the three dimensional construction of multipart structures by assimilating geological and geophysical data. Student tasks include the use of industry seismic reflection data, remote sensing imagery, three dimensional structural modeling, and surface geology.  Courses offered include Earth and Planetary Sciences 109, and Earth Resources and the Environment. 

 

The group’s current research links the disciplines of structural geology and seismology in studying the nature of deformation of the Earth’s crust through different approaches including the use of satellite remote sensing, subsurface imaging, and geologic procedures to illustrate the spatial and chronological exchanges of fault systems in and around sedimentary basins. 

 

 

Stanford University

 

Stanford Graduate School of Business

 

Established in 1925, the school has grown to be an international leader in management education and aside from its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, it has created the Center for Social Innovation, the Center for Leadership Development and Research, and the Center for Global Business and the Economy.  The school has also launched a new curriculum that covers a new set of core courses, a small seminar in critical analytical thinking, a global experience component, and an academic focus on leadership skills.

The school offers various programs such as the MBA program, the Sloan master’s program, a Doctor of Philosophy program, and executive education programs including Strategic Uses of Information Technology, Finance and Accounting for the Non-financial Executive, Executive Program for Women Leaders, and Stanford Executive Program.

 

In line with its new curriculum, the school offers joint degree programs such as the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources offering degrees to MBA, PhD and Sloan students and the joint MBA and Public Policy degree.

 

Stanford Law School

 

From a law program in 1893, it was officially transformed into a professional institution in 1916. It offers degree programs such as the J.D. (Juris Doctor) program, joint degree programs, and advanced degree programs that include the following master’s programs: the Masters of Law (LLM), The Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS), and the Master of Legal Studies (MLS), and a doctoral degree (JSD) for foreign graduate students who have obtained a law degree outside the country.  The school also presents a variety of programs and centers including Criminal Justice, International Law, Public Interest Law, and Law, Science & Technology.

 

School of Earth Sciences (Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences)

 

Its faculty works with more than 150 undergraduates, graduate and post-doctoral students focusing on different areas of interdisciplinary research including hydrogeology, geomicrobiology, biogeosciences, oceanography, sedimentary geology, surface processes, and geostatistics & geomathematics to name a few.

The school has also recently launched a new program called DARE (Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence) Fellowship Program.  It is a $4.5 million program aimed to provide two-year fellowships, faculty mentors and seminars to 36 advanced doctoral students over the next four years.  It also has a 1 million-dollar fund to finance four fellows in serving one-year acting assistant professor appointments after the completion of the program and PhDs.

 

 

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

 

Columbia Business School

 

The school offers programs including MBA Programs, Executive MBA Programs, Executive Education, and Doctoral Programs.  Its MBA programs focus on various areas of study including accounting, international business, marketing, media, private equity, operations management, and many more.  Its upcoming executive education programs will include Columbia Essentials of Management, Emerging Leader Development Program, Finance & Accounting for the Non-financial Executive, Global Account Manager Certification Program, and Leadership Essentials.

 

The school has launched its new homepage and it has also opened Public Offering, which is the Columbia Business School Blog wherein website visitors are able to communicate with each other.

 

Columbia Law School

 

Columbia Law School offers degree programs such as Juris Doctor, Graduate Legal Studies, Master of Laws (LL.M.), and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD).  It also has a wide range of centers including the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the Center for Law and Philosophy and the Center on Global Legal Problems.  It also offers programs including Advance Legal Education Programs, Human Rights Institute, International Programs, and the Legal Theory Workshop.

 

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University

 

The Earth Institute at Columbia University offers several programs such as Summer Internship, which features summer research experience in Earth and ocean sciences, Undergraduate Programs, Graduate Resources, and Masters Programs.