Harvard Business School (HBS) broke ground today on its campus in Boston for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. The ceremony included remarks by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao (MBA 1979), former Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), and the Honorable Cui Tiankai, China’s ambassador to the United States.
