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- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
schools in Africa a hard sell. “After Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, there was a lot of instability on Wall Street,” he notes. But by partnering in-country with Rwandan educators, government officials, and View Details
- 02 Nov 2019
- News
American Business Schools Are Reinventing the MBA
- 22 Jun 2015
- News
Interview: professor Robert G. Eccles, Harvard Business School
- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
What books are HBS faculty members reading this summer—and are certain publications especially meaningful to them? Turns out, faculty are interested in a variety of topics, everything from exploring spirituality and confronting climate...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education
SchoolsKevin Johnson, CEO & President, St HOPE Public SchoolsWendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach for AmericaMichelle Rhee, Chancellor, Washington DC Public Schools A...
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Education
- 25 Feb 2015
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the post-WWII international scene while serving...
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by Staff
- August 30, 2022
- Article
School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race
By: Kalinda Ukanwa, Aziza C. Jones and Broderick L. Turner Jr.
This research examines how school choice impacts school segregation. Specifically, this work demonstrates that even if parents do not take the racial demographics of schools into account, preference differences between Black and White parents for other school...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Race;
Policy;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Secondary Education
Ukanwa, Kalinda, Aziza C. Jones, and Broderick L. Turner Jr. "School Choice Increases Racial Segregation Even When Parents Do Not Care About Race." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, no. 35 (August 30, 2022).
- Web
MBA/DMD Harvard School of Dental Medicine - MBA
MBA/DMD MBA/DMD A degree program with Harvard School of Dental Medicine In recognition of the critical need for leaders who are educated in the intellectual disciplines and practices of dentistry and management, Harvard View Details
- 2010
- Working Paper
Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment
By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Education;
Marketplace Matching;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Behavior;
Personal Characteristics
Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais, and Marc Vorsatz. "Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-093, April 2010.
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
taken to the woodshed through the advent of the media rankings — a public pronouncement that insufficient attention by schools to the needs of their student and corporate “customers” could not be corrected...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Who Closed the Schools?
By: Joshua D. Coval
This paper examines the differences in characteristics between U.S. public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of COVID-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers...
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Public Education;
COVID-19;
Virtual Learning;
Education;
Health Pandemics;
Teaching;
Internet and the Web;
Policy;
Outcome or Result;
United States
Coval, Joshua D. "Who Closed the Schools?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-127, June 2021.
- November 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Daniella Suarez and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Beatriz Cardoso, founder of Laboratório de Educação (Education Laboratory) had a dream to propel Brazilian education. However challenges in fundraising made it difficult to scale up her project, based on helping adults help children improve their literacy skills. To...
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Latin America;
South America;
Brazil;
Sao Paulo;
Education Startup;
Education Technology;
Child Education;
Literacy;
Blog;
Technology;
School Districts;
Public Schools;
Fundraising;
Sponsorship;
Leadership Skills;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Blogs;
Internet and the Web;
Leadership;
Education Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Brazil;
Sao Paulo
- 2017
- Working Paper
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top...
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Education;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Marketplace Matching;
Mathematical Methods;
Design
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux. "Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23265, March 2017.
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
As Japan continues to come to grips with the devastating toll exacted by the earthquake within its borders, the aftershocks are just beginning to be felt within the global economy. Here, several Harvard Business School faculty members...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
Picture two schools with the same demographics—rural middle schools, for example, that serve equally high-need populations. Both use the same state-mandated curriculum taught by certified teachers. Why is one View Details
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University Collaborations