Dean Venky newly launched School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, faces a number of challenges and opportunities, as he presides over the launch of the new School of Engineering at Harvard University. Its features include enough donations, a small but elite faculty, and the opportunity to collaborate with other schools at Harvard. Its objectives are to bring the best faculty and students, the creation of links between the university and determine a strategy that will make Harvard engineering as well known as its other schools. Students should analyze the strengths and weaknesses of engineering schools side compared to other high schools, political issues, organizational changes, and the most appropriate strategy for Dean to follow. "Hide
by Lee Fleming, Lynn Andrea Stein, Thomas D. Perry IV Source: Harvard Business School 19 pages. Publication Date: October 25, 2007. Prod. #: 608087-PDF-ENG
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