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Education Startup Connects Filipino students to Colleges and Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

26 May 2021

HBS Perspectives from the Middle East & North Africa

Please join us to meet Harvard Business School students from the Middle East & North Africa and learn more about our MBA Program from their perspective. View Details

20 Nov 2014
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Strengthening America's Public Education System

educators, to strengthen education, rather than simply alleviating the symptoms of a weak system. “That’s really needed if America is going to lead in public education and business competitiveness,” says Rivkin. The alliance also... View Details

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Sara B. Wilkinson Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for... View Details

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Judy L. Allen Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

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23 Oct 2019
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Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East

press coverage in the Economist, the Guardian, and the New York Times. That motto is also what propelled the 26-year-old creative force to journey 6,400 miles to Boston to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School. “The art scene in the View Details

Keywords: Inclusion

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

June 2003
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Memphis City Schools

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Kevin Morris

Associate Superintendent Marieta Harris needs a plan for continuing the momentum of systemic change in this urban school district while facing shifts of leadership and curriculum philosophy, uneven progress on reforms, new tests that put a high proportion of schools on... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leading Change; Transition; Education Industry

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Barbara Hackman Franklin Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

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01 Dec 2023
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Educating Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan HBS is constantly taking steps, both small and large, to refine and improve the way it prepares its students and program participants to lead—both in today’s world and in a future we can’t yet imagine. By being creative, nimble,... View Details

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

12 Jul 2010
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Education As We Know It Is Finished

20 Dec 2023
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New School

and children drew him to the company in 2008. Waldron had spent most of his career in the education sector, working for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations, in mission-driven and profit-driven settings. His experiences had... View Details

February 2004
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Aspire Public Schools

Set in the fall of 2003, covers managerial challenges facing the CEO and COO of Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management company. In operation since 1999 and funded by prominent national foundations and venture philanthropies, Aspire operates 10... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry; California

26 Mar 2015
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A wake-up call for tomorrow's top 1 percent: rebuild America's middle class

October 2002
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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