Overview

The continuing mission of Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration, founded in 1908, is to train general managers. This mission is enhanced by its local alumni clubs that give their members the opportunity to participate, learn, socialize, and network through a variety of activities each year. During the past seventy years, the Harvard Business School Club of Michigan (formerly the Harvard Business School Club of Detroit) has offered its members diverse activities including: - opportunities to meet local and national business and civic leaders - tours of local organizations - social events The club also has a scholarship fund for CEO/ Executive Directors of various Michigan non-profit organizations who, in recognition of their outstanding service, have been given the opportunity to attend Strategic Perspectives for Non-Profit Management (SPNM) an intensive six-day course presented each summer at the Harvard Business School in Boston. As of July 2013, 35 leading Michigan non-profit executives have participated in the SPNM program.