Harvard hardly needs to shout. The lavish gardens, redbrick buildings and stiff white tablecloths in the faculty restaurant all conspire to hush clamorous visitors' voices. It does run joint executive education programmes with other institutions, including Insead in France, IMD in Switzerland and Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Schools establish partnerships with their peers.
Prof Clark is too understated to labour the point, but Harvard does not believe it has many peers. He names no others. Since the mid-1920s Harvard has occupied a site apart from the university, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 35-acre business school campus is in Soldiers Field, on the Boston side of the Charles river. Prof Clark, who was appointed dean in 1995, says the school's influence extends far further than Boston.