The Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth followed in March of this year. Both the University of Michigan Business School and the Haas School of Business at University of California at Berkeley are also considering the idea. He estimates that between a quarter and one-third of Harvard Business School students want Silicon Valley jobs. Harvard's new center will create courses to help them prepare for those jobs. The Harvard faculty use the research facility to study businesses and write case studies based on companies in Silicon Valley.
Students study the cases and devise solutions.
Philip Anderson, an associate professor of business administration at Tuck, agrees. The Tuck outpost, a West Coast branch of the school's Foster Center for Private Equity, provides an office for visiting students and faculty. Eventually, Tuck hopes to have one or two faculty members based there permanently. To establish a center out there is critical for us. A home base in the Valley also brings students closer to the companies they'd like to work for.