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  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

What Business Schools Don't Get About MOOCs

Keywords: online education; MOOCs; disruptive innovation; business schools; Educational Services
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Beyond the Buzz, Where Are MOOCs Really Going?

  • 13 Mar 2014
  • News

Democratizing Health Care Innovation with MOOCs

  • 21 Mar 2014
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches First Online Offering

Keywords: HBX; MOOC; Educational Services
  • September 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

edX: Strategies for Higher Education

By: David Collis, Matthew Shaffer and Ashley Hartman
In May 2012, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made... View Details
Keywords: MOOCS; edX; Online Platforms; Online Education; Harvard University; MIT; Execution; Monetization; Brand Management; Higher Education; Information Technology; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Education Industry
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  • 20 Jul 2022
  • Podcast

MOOC to graduate degree: What the 2U, edX merger means for higher ed and skills building

Edtech firm 2U's acquisition of edX, the Harvard-MIT nonprofit education venture, has the potential to advance online higher-ed and broaden access. But there are many moving parts and interested parties. 2U co-founder and CEO, Chip View Details
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
  • Case

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller and Carl Kreitzberg
By the late 2000s, rapid changes in the telecommunications industry forced AT&T’s management team to take on a task that CEO Randall Stephenson called the “biggest logistical challenge” they had ever seen: retraining 100,000 workers by 2020. In 2012, internal company... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Workforce; Skills; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Competency and Skills; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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  • July 2019
  • Teaching Note

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
A Teaching Note for the "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow" case study (HBS#820-017). The case describes how AT&T designed and implemented a program to retrain 100,000 of its workers. The case first reviews the technological forces that compelled AT&T to... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Workforce; Future Of Work; Telecommunications; Unions; Technological Change; Layoffs; MOOCS; Strategic Planning; Employees; Training; Labor; Learning; Labor Unions; Technology Adoption; Talent and Talent Management; Transformation; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; United States
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  • 26 Feb 2015
  • News

Thinking Like an Entrepreneur: The Science and the Art

  • 10 Mar 2014
  • News

Teaching revolution gathers pace

  • August 2013 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Coursera

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hyunjin Kim
By providing free and open-access online courses at a large scale, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms seek to innovate the business models of the traditional higher education industry. In a little over a year, Coursera had grown at a rapid rate to emerge as a... View Details
Keywords: Business Models; Strategy; Competition; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Higher Education; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry
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  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

innovate the business models of the traditional higher education industry. In a little over a year, Coursera had grown at a rapid rate to emerge as a leader of the MOOCs in terms of the number of student enrollments, courses, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

computer science and the art of programming, now available as a suite of courses to undergraduates and MBAs alike. Long offered online through Harvard Extension School, the course is also edX's largest MOOC (massive open online course)... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Beantown as a Beacon

COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC EDUCATION Online learning tailored to the skills gap of the unemployed Boston is an education mecca, but with the emergence of online education and MOOCs (massive open online courses), every city can boost its education... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

scale. Offerings such as MOOCs (massive open online courses) have wide reach but relatively low engagement, while approaches that offer faculty interaction result in high engagement but don’t scale. The answer may lie in shifting... View Details
Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business

says HBS Online Executive Director Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999). Approximately 88 percent of HBS Online participants successfully finish their courses, compared to percentages in the single digits for MOOCs (massive open online courses).... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

not only through MOOCs (massive open online courses) but also such things as 3-D printing of products. An important driver is the Internet of Things that connects information about everything and everybody on a real-time basis, providing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

lecture courses as MOOCs. While the future role of MOOCs in higher education remained a topic of public debate, edX needed to answer concrete managerial and strategic questions. For example, what should edX's scope be? Should edX try to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne