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The GSB is a place, that in the end, is really about the people.
It's about how they come together as a community, how they engage.
And engagement of our students, faculty, staff, and
alumni, I think has never been richer.
We had about 3,000 alumni,
from 40 different countries come to the GSB last year.
That's a record number.
One of the great strengths of the school, is the diversity of the student body.
Because the students learn from one another.
They come from consulting and investment banking, of course.
But also from high tech, from biotech from consumer products.
We have about 15% who come from the military,
non-government or nonprofit organizations.
>> We all come from different backgrounds, we all have different talents and
we're all searching for different things.
And that really allows the cohort to be supportive of one another.
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>> The GSB positively impacted my career.
Upon graduation I had a number of different opportunities available to me
and according to the mantra change lives, change organizations, change the world,
I really felt gratified to have the luxury to choose a course of action that,
where I'd have the greatest impact.
>> I think something that makes the GSB really unique
is the interdisciplinary nature of the culture here.
I was a joint degree student at the GSB,
taking classes in the school of education and at the business school.
And it really changed my life, by being able to have a community and
network in both of those departments.
>> Given the incredible living learning environment that we have
established between the center, and
the night management center >> Most of our MBA students want
to be resident on the campus.
To that end, we're adding a new, 200 bed facility called Highland Hall, and
we expect it to be open next summer, in time for
the crop of students who will come next fall.
>> One of the ways we equip our students to lead is through the leadership
curriculum that we've been working on over the past few years.
In a program that we call I Lead.
>> The culture and the leadership program at GSB give me a chance to explore my own
leadership style and provide a safe environment for
me to do all sorts of experiments with the leadership skills.
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>> I think the most interesting thing about the faculty at the GSB is that they
really have a great mix of academic and practical experience, and so
you get to see both sides of an issue.
>> Over the past decade or so, we have had a concerted effort to increase the size
of our faculty while, of course, maintaining our very high standards.
This past year we had an exceptional recruiting year,
hiring 12 new faculty members.
Even as we've hired so many great new faculty.
We of course have to say goodbye to some faculty that have been here for awhile.
This year Jim Patel and Mike Hannan who have served 40 and
39 years respectively have decided to retire.
The experimentation that we're doing with online education
in our executive education programs it is also providing us with learning,
about how to apply those techniques for our MBAs and other students on the campus.
We've had an enormous emphasis in the last few years on increasing
the reach of our content.
In order to make the content more accessible we have
done a full re-vamp of our website.
In the past year alone we had something like 10 million visits to the website.
We've increased the number of followers on our various social media properties,
from just 16,000 in 2011 to more than 1.5 million at the moment.
Over the past few years, we pioneered a new fellowship program,
the Africa Fellows Program, which helps us attract extraordinary young men and women.
>From Africa, they come here for the two years of the MBA program and
are then required to go back for two years to their continent so they can take
the benefit of their education and have impact in their communities back home.
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I'm so grateful to our alumni for all the support and for your volunteerism.
So it's your energy that make your local chapters what they are.
We love it when you come into class when you recommend students to us.
It's really this energy, this volunteerism,
this spirit of connectedness that makes our alumni community what it is.
So please, come and visit us, reconnect with one another, and
see what we've been up to lately.
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