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Discover Upcoming HBS Executive Education Programs

As a business leader, you are often confronted with a wide range of opportunities and challenges. You're expected to bring new ideas to the table, find solutions to existing and arising obstacles, and stay in the forefront of innovative thinking. Harvard Business View Details

13 Oct 2021
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Executive Education Courses in Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Leadership

November 2012
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Edison Schools, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren Barley

Edison Schools, Inc., a pioneer in the for-profit management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public... View Details

Keywords: Charter Schools; Conflict of Interests; Initial Public Offering; For-Profit Firms; Public Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Education; Business Startups; Education Industry

24 Apr 2014
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A bold experiment in education

city after the first year, on track to move the school from an “F” to a “C” in two years. London’s Sunday Telegraph declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United... View Details

13 Nov 2014
News

How Educators Can Align Careers and Curriculum

October 2002
Case

New Leaders for New Schools

Describes the founding, early growth, and expansion plans of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit public education venture that recruits, trains, places, and supports principals in U.S. urban school districts. This case presents the strategic, financial, and... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry

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Continuing Education - Business & Environment

Continuing Education Continuing Education Continue your climate education through HBS Executive Education and Harvard Business View Details

March 2014
Supplement

School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn (B)

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An

This supplements the "A" case. Joel Rose and Chris Rush decide to spin-off from School of One to found New Classrooms Innovation Partners. Rose and Rush navigate the strategic complexities of the spin-off process to make their mission-driven product a reality. The case... View Details

Keywords: Education Technology; Ed Tech; Classroom Innovation; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Patents; Spin-offs; Non-profit Management; Scaling Ed Tech Products; Strategy

06 Sep 2018
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A boost for school principals

May 2002 (Revised July 2002)
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U.S. Educational System:The, Key Issues and the Role of Business Leadership

Explores the area of education and ways in which corporations have played a role in its improvement. Not intended to cover all examples of corporate involvement but, instead, to provide a sense of the range of ways that corporations have become involved, either... View Details

Keywords: Education; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Education Industry

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

2007), 148. Contact Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston , MA 02163 Phone: 617.495.6411 Email: histcollref@hbs.edu Map/Directions Related Links Alumni Doctoral... View Details

06 Mar 2022
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Don’t Be Miserable in Middle Age. Make a Happiness Plan Today

25 Mar 2016
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Putting Faith in a Good Education

mom put her at Omega School there, and she’s blossoming in English and math. It’s going to change her life,” Crane says. Based in San Diego, Crane has formed a partnership with the University of San Diego to bring American View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

2025
Working Paper

Training Within Firms

By: Brayan Diaz, Andrea Neyra-Nazarrett, Julian Ramirez, Raffaella Sadun and Jorge Tamayo

Training investments are essential for improving worker and firm productivity, yet their implementation is often hindered by low participation rates and insufficient worker engagement. This study uses data from three firms–a car manufacturer, a quick-service... View Details

Keywords: Productivity; Absenteeism; Middle Managers; Training; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Employees

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November 2006 (Revised December 2012)
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Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (B): Expenditures

Describes the cost structure and spending policies of U.S. public school districts. View Details

Keywords: Spending; Education; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States

20 Mar 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Sell Side School Ties

Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini & Christopher J. Malloy; Financial Services

January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
Case

KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network

Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Middle School Education; Expansion; Education Industry; Houston

September 2007
Article

Relevance and Rigor: Executive Education as a Lever in Shaping Practice and Research

By: Michael L. Tushman, Amy Fenollosa, Dan McGrath, Charles A. O'Reilly and Adam Michael Kleinbaum

As professional schools, business schools aspire to couple research rigor with managerial relevance. There has been, however, a concern that business schools are increasingly uncoupled from practice and that business school research lacks real world relevance. This... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Executive Education; Learning; Teaching; Management; Practice; Research