Welcome

For more than four decades, the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of Malaysia has been synonymous with executive business education in this country.

Regarded as the most active HBS alumni club outside Boston, HBSACM has indeed touched the lives of thousands of people directly and indirectly.

The list of those who have walked through the doors of the Harvard campus in Boston and here in Malaysia via HBS-inspired programs runs like the Who’s Who of the Malaysian corporate world.

Backed by a team of dedicated corporate leaders, who work tirelessly to educate middle and senior managers on cutting-edge business ideas, HBSACM remains connected to industry and business while establishing an inclusive community that focuses on enrichment not only of the individual but also of the world outside the classroom.

This book aims to chronicle the successes and the struggles of the pioneering team of this Malaysian chapter of the Harvard Business alumni club in bringing the best of Harvard education to Malaysia, and in helping to inspire thousands to climb the corporate ladder.

What is more important, this book also serves to inspire young, bright and talented Malaysians to challenge the conventional wisdom that MBAs from Harvard and other top business schools are only for a select few.

In this book, we share the successes of Malaysia’s own Harvard DBA and MBA alumni and others who pursued continuing executive programs in Boston. In addition, the HBSACM programs in Malaysia, which are run by the HBS professors, are also equally attractive to corporate managers looking for better career development or as a stepping stone to Harvard or elsewhere.