Next year, all entering students will receive lifelong E-mail addresses intended to link them with one another during their school years and let them stay in touch after graduation. Corporate recruiters will be able to search a database of upcoming grads. While the faculty nixed some of the more radical recommendations, it approved several dramatic alterations. To foster a sense of belonging, the new students were divided into groups of 16, which were reshuffled throughout the exercises. The Foundations innovations will be rolled out to all entering students this fall.
Early reviews are positive.
Clark has named Steven C. Wheelwright chair of the MBA program and charged him with seeing to it that the administration no longer turned a deaf ear to students' concerns. In addition to making himself available via the Net, Clark has held many dinners and meetings with students. When the school announced the resumption of the GMAT requirement last month, some MBAs groused that they had not been consulted. Because one-third of the school's tenured professors will be retiring over the next five years, Clark has an extraordinary opportunity to remake the faculty. He expects to reach out to Harvard's medical and government schools to create new programs in health and nonprofit management.