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- 1984
- Article
Children's Artistic Creativity: Effects of Choice in Task Materials
By: T. M. Amabile and J. Gitomer
Preschool boys and girls made collages using a subset of a large array of materials. Half of the children were allowed to choose those materials they would use. For the rest of the children, the choice was made by the experimenter. Children in the no-choice condition...
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Amabile, T. M., and J. Gitomer. "Children's Artistic Creativity: Effects of Choice in Task Materials." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 10 (1984): 209–215.
- 1982
- Article
Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting
By: T. M. Amabile
Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each...
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Keywords:
Creativity;
Early Childhood Education;
Motivation and Incentives;
Situation or Environment;
Competition;
Teaching
Amabile, T. M. "Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 8 (1982): 573–578.
- 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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Keywords:
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).
- March–April 2022
- Article
School Choice in Chile
By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre
Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000...
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Keywords:
Early Childhood Education;
Secondary Education;
Middle School Education;
Family and Family Relationships;
Welfare;
Chile
Correa, Jose, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein, and Felipe Subiabre. "School Choice in Chile." Operations Research 70, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 1066–1087.
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
family and societal levels: family-of-origin social class moderates effects of maternal employment, and childhood exposure to female employment within society can substitute for the influence of maternal employment on daughters and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
inequalities in public and private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men’s and women’s outcomes at work...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2017
- Supplement
Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
The (B) case provides an update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Teaching;
Talent And Talent Management;
Innovation;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice." Harvard Business Publishing Supplement, 2017. (Case No. PEL-080.)
- January 2018
- Case
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed...
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Keywords:
Child Care;
Childcare;
Day Care;
Daycare;
Early Childhood Education;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Selection and Staffing;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Education Industry;
United States;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- October 2001
- Case
SchoolSuccess.net
By: James E. Austin and Arthur McCaffrey
The mission of the nonprofit Jumpstart for Young Children was to address the problem of school readiness of low-income family preschoolers. It had been growing significantly, and to achieve its projected expansion would require major increases in funding. After...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Early Childhood Education;
Venture Capital;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Startups;
Management Teams
Austin, James E., and Arthur McCaffrey. "SchoolSuccess.net." Harvard Business School Case 302-008, October 2001.
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Investor_Sentiment_JFE_Article_In_Press.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Desai Publication:Journal of Personality and Social...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
http://hbr.org/product/fei-cheng-wu-rao/an/414056-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 712-463 Sweet Deal-Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children In response to growing concern about childhood obesity, in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2022
- Case
EducationSuperHighway 2.0
By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ...
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Keywords:
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Leading Change;
Early Childhood Education;
Infrastructure;
Internet and the Web;
Telecommunications Industry;
Education Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Sahlman, William A., Allison M. Ciechanover, and Emily Grandjean. "EducationSuperHighway 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 823-060, October 2022.
- 2017
- Case
Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Teaching;
Talent Management;
Innovation;
Organization Structure;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2017. (Case No. PEL-079.)
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
of performance feedback in motivating productivity in repetitive tasks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-078.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [409108].
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- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
to its—and Morocco’s—benefit. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-049 Nykaa.com: A Passion for Beauty Being an entrepreneur was a childhood dream for Falguni Nayar. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
as well as how to nurture creativity, both in individuals and in organizations. Amabile interviewed John Irving in 1986, when he agreed to share memories of his childhood as part of a research project Amabile was conducting on children...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The thesis was fairly straightforward: early...
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Martha Lagace