New Students
Congratulations! You are now an official member of the Harvard Business Analytics Program community.
This section outlines the specific steps to complete before class begins. We recommend you review the entire site thoroughly before Term 1 and refer back often as a self-service portal.
New Student Checklist
- Complete account setup for program email, Digital Campus, Slack, and HBS Online payment portal.
- Complete student orientation on the Digital Campus.
- Complete a welcome call with your student success advisor.
- Download the student handbook.
- Upload a profile picture on your Digital Campus and Slack profiles.
- Complete registration and payment.
- Review technical training.
- Submit your official transcript(s), if applicable.
- Review key contacts.
- For future reference, bookmark important student-resource pages from this Student Portal.
- Prioritize and plan to attend the HBAP Cohort Orientation hosted by the Program Chairs and Faculty, Karim Lakhani and David Parkes. Information will be sent to your HBAP inbox.
Account Setup
Overview
You should receive login credentials for your program email, the digital campus, and HBS Online payment portal.
In the future, your classes will require you to activate and use additional software tools, such as Posit or DataRobot. Read more about these under Student Tools.
The accounts used for this program are not currently integrated into a single sign-on system. If you have any questions about your accounts, reach out to your Student Success Advisor.
Program Email
Site: mail.google.com
Address format: firstname.lastname@mail.analytics.hbs.edu
Set up Your Program Email Account
The email you used to apply to the program will contain a message with your login credentials (Subject: “Welcome to Your New Google Cloud account”). To set up your program email:
- Click the link below “Set your password and sign in.”
- Access your account at mail.google.com.
- Log in to your account.
If your login credentials have expired, request a reset from your Student Success Advisor.
About Your Program Email
Your program email should be the primary domain used to communicate with classmates, faculty, and administrators. You are responsible for checking it regularly.
IMAP forwarding is disabled for this domain. If you have another or multiple Gmail accounts, click here for instructions on how to add your program email and switch between your Gmail accounts.
Please follow these instructions if you would like to enable mail forwarding.
You will continue to have access to your program email for at least one year after completion of the program. If you withdraw prior to completion, your email account will be deprovisioned.
Digital Campus
Site: 2uciam.onelogin.com
Username format: personal email address
The Digital Campus, our online campus, is your learning management system. This is where you will complete coursework, attend live class meetings, and interact with our community. Your Digital Campus account is connected to your program email.
Set up Your Digital Campus Account
Your Digital Campus account is activated alongside your program email. Upon activation, the Digital Campus sent you a temporary password. Once you have located your temporary password, you can log in to Digital Campus using the username (firstname.lastname). Then, you can complete your Student Orientation course.
If you do not see this email in your Inbox or Spam folders, please select the “Forgot password?” button on the Digital Campus homepage and enter your program email. This will trigger a new temporary password to that account. Your temporary password is valid for 48 hours.
You will have access to Digital Campus for at least one year after completion of the program.
Once your Digital Campus is set up, feel free to watch this Digital Campus Training Video for further instructions:
Access to Slack Workspace
An activation email will be sent to your program email prior to Term 1. Once you activate your account, you will have access to a “view only” Announcement channel. You will be added to course channels and other private channels after you complete your term fee payment.
Mobile Campus App
You can download your Mobile Campus App from our technology partner, 2U Inc., via your Digital Campus home page (under Downloads). The Mobile Campus App uses the same username and password as your Digital Campus account.
For more information, you can reference the mobile app user guide. Be sure to review what you can and cannot do on the Mobile App, as well as saving work for mobile offline mode.
Payment Portal
Your payment portal is called My Dashboard or the HBS Online payment portal.
You will receive an activation message (Subject: “Activate Your Harvard Business Analytics Payment Portal”) when a registration period starts. This message will be sent to the email address you used to apply to the program.
Once you have activated your payment portal, you can log in at admin.myhbx.org.
Checkpoint
You have completed your early account responsibilities if you have:
- Accessed your program email
- Accessed Digital Campus and completed student orientation
- Completed registration on your payment portal
Be sure you are familiar with any relevant tools, such as Slack or Posit.
Academic Accommodations
The Harvard Business Analytics Program welcomes participants of all backgrounds and abilities. If you need to contact the Accommodations Team, please consult our guidance on Academic Accommodations.
Welcome Call
In addition to answering any general questions, the purposes of the Welcome Call are:
- Transitioning from working with your enrollment counselor and introducing you to your Student Success Advisor
- Outlining Term 1 registration plan
- Providing an overview of your onboarding to the program
This call should take 20–30 minutes to complete.
Schedule Your Welcome Call
Click on your Student Success Advisor’s link to schedule your Welcome Call:
Schedule welcome call with Nathan Simms
Schedule welcome call with Megan Wilking
Tip
Bookmark your Student Success Advisor’s appointment link from above, and take a minute to schedule a series of future calls with your advisor. This ensures your advisor will have time to meet your needs and help you leverage your experience in the program.
Past cohorts recommend booking brief monthly phone calls in advance with Student Success to clarify future course requirements, key information about the program, referrals to services and benefits, a strong feedback loop, and an advocate in the administration.
Student Orientations
Online Orientation Course
The Digital Campus is pre-set with a self-paced Student Orientation course that you must complete before the start of Term 1. We recommend you complete it within one week of your enrollment. The course contains modules regarding your program and requires approximately 90 minutes to complete. Your progress is saved automatically, so you may complete it in multiple sittings.
To access Student Orientation:
- Log in to the Digital Campus.
- Click the graduation cap icon to open your Course Menu
- Click Student Orientation from the Course Menu to navigate to the course page.
- Click the Coursework tab to start the activity.
Download your Student Handbook
Be sure to download your Student Handbook. You are accountable for abiding by all policies contained therein.
For your convenience, your handbook may always be reviewed on the Digital Campus. From your Student Orientation course page, click the Files tab and download your Student Handbook.
Upload a Profile Photo
Faculty request that you upload a profile photo to help them recognize and engage with you during your live sessions.
To add a profile photo:
- Click on your Profile from the lower left side of your Digital Campus home page.
- Click Change Profile Photo.
- Click Upload New Photo and select a file from your computer.
- Reposition and resize the image as needed.
- Click Save to complete this change.
Orientation Meeting
You are required to attend a faculty-led orientation taking place the week before the start of Term 1. You will receive email communication with the meeting details approximately two weeks before your first term starts.
This orientation is led by HBAP faculty co-chairs, Karim Lakhani and David Parkes. This orientation is hosted live via Zoom.
The orientation is an opportunity to discuss program aspects as well as to practice your case study analysis skills. To prepare for the orientation, you are asked to read a case study and complete an assignment. The case study and the related assignment and further instructions will be included in the email sent two weeks prior to starting Term 1.
For tips on utilizing Harvard’s case study method, see the Student Experience—Case Method section.
Technical Training
After you have completed your Student Orientation course, please review the Technical Training Guide and consult the synchronous coursework guide. If you have any questions about the content, please reach out to your Student Success Advisor.
Official Transcript
If you applied to the program using unofficial transcripts, you must send official copies prior to starting Term 2. Contact your Student Success Advisor if you are unsure if you must fulfill this requirement.
Mail any official transcript to:
Harvard University
Application Processing Center
Harvard Business Analytics Program
PO Box 30096 009-001
College Station, TX 77842
Any authenticated electronic transcript should be emailed to AppSvcs@analytics.hbs.edu.