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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) offered a rather stark assessment of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Education Revolution
COMPTON: Making the case on film that America’s education system is falling short globally. “I don’t even talk about education reform any more, I talk about education... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
Inside, in a classroom decorated with student art, children gather on a colorful carpet for story time. But the traditional trappings are only part of the story at The Primary School, an ambitious experiment in reinventing education to... View Details
- 23 Oct 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
“We knew the education system was broken,” says Meredith Liu (MBA 2010) of her first meetings with Priscilla Chan, who founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization that she founded with her husband, Facebook CEO... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the world. That doesn't even make... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
HBS, where Jones took an entrepreneurship in public education elective with Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), who now heads NewSchools Venture Fund. Childress urged her to enter the field, but Jones, intent on paying off her loans, opted for a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
Street and DLJ — it was a wonderful, vibrant place to work,” he remarks. “But as my children grew up and my family situation changed, I thought I should do something beyond that one world. You grow a lot when you explore new fields.” One of Pechter’s underlying goals... View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
Ellison: Teaching is "in my DNA." Courtesy Ed Ellison After graduating from HBS and spending several years at Salomon Brothers and CS First Boston, Ed Ellison (MBA ’91) left Wall Street to go into education because “teaching and coaching... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high achievement, while their neighbors in other public schools were struggling. For the first time, he understood the stark contrast in public education between the upper-middle-class world he knew and impoverished neighborhoods. "It's a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint... View Details
- 26 Sep 2016
- News
Schools for the Future
children. These children are going to change the lives of so many, and 100,000 children mean at least 500,000 family members get directly impacted, one way or the other. “People are coming and joining this movement. So we started to build the View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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What Is Harvard’s Impact in the World?
respondents with secondary data sources to gauge the entrepreneurial and social impact of the University’s alumni. The survey will launch in the spring of 2015 and a report of the findings will be published in the following months. View Details
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
through the Leadership Fellows Program has been great because it’s given me direct access to senior management right away,” she says. “That’s why I went to business school in the first place — I want to be on the management side and use my View Details
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
and secondary education in the United States? How do you bring innovation into schools? How do you help schools get better results out of reading programs, out of other things? “The premise of Collaborating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Shining Knight
to think responsibly about the distribution of their wealth," he explained of the move. Knighted in 2005, Ogden, who holds a PhD in theoretical physics, is from a working-class background. That has influenced the thrust of his charitable trust, which is to make elite... View Details