Harvard Business School

“Technology is like air on our campus – it's everywhere!" - Dean Kim B. Clark

“Harvard Business School literally surrounds students with technology, building it into the physical learning environment with new and experimental classrooms.”

Harvard Business School employs advanced presentation technology, video captures and a web cast video distribution system to enable students in each of the ten first year MBA case study rooms to view presentations originating in any other case study room, and to interact with the presenter.

Vantage was engaged by Harvard Business School to propose a forward looking, five year plan for specialist technologies to support the case study teaching method in future generations of the classic Harvard case study room.

The project started with needs analysis designed to clearly identify the relationship between operational requirements and technology solutions. The resulting report recommended changes in approach that will make a substantial cost reduction in future installed systems; recommended convergence of data and video transmission to solve campus distribution issues; and identified three emerging technologies that will provide significant enhancement to the pedagogy when they reach a price point viable for wide spread installation.

The recommendations were incorporated into budget requests approved for technology spending over the next four years.

SERVICES
Technology Planning

EXPERTISE
Distance Learning & Videoconferencing
Audiovisual Presentation
Media Distribution
Multimedia Production

CLIENT
Harvard Business School

PROJECT LOCATION
Boston, MA