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- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
curriculums-theory creep, mission creep, doing well by doing good, and the quest for enlightenment-are teaching students to be uncompetitive in today's global markets. If this hypothesis is true, I argue that business school curriculums... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
thought that there was a place in the business school curriculum for the teaching of topics that provide a context for subsequent action. Dr. B. V. Krishnamurthy summed up this view by saying, "...whether we can 'teach' the craft of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- July 2020
- Teaching Plan
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Communication Strategy; Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Demographics; Age; Gender; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Leadership Style; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Identity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Motivation and Incentives; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Education Industry; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
accounting, financial, human resource, and operational matters and taught by those only with strong functional backgrounds? Of course, only a limited amount of time can be allocated in a curriculum to these topics, whether taught in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
that the emergence of the latter offers a great learning opportunity. For example, Jed Bullard maintains that "[onsite] MBA programs MUST study, embrace, and implement their own versions of e-learning programs, if only to remain current in their View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
crowd-based collaborations. Case examples include Google, SK Telecom, DaVita, UPS, and GSK. This note can be paired with Core Curriculum Reading: Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies (#5272). Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
their instruction from inexperienced newly minted college graduates called tutors, who are supervised by one master teacher, called a Director of Curriculum of Instruction (DCI). In addition, the Match Next team infuses technology into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
pattern common to important narratives around the world. A supporting website facilitates sharing of teaching materials and experiences by faculty using the case series. We report results from using this curriculum with undergraduate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
get them to base their judgements on evidence versus snap judgements. Will "gut feel" now gain newfound credibility under the banner of "blink" being practiced by untrained amateurs? Or is it possible that, slowly by slowly, a case-oriented View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
but the core components remain extremely effective. The curriculum resonates strongly with course participants because it deals with exactly the kinds of issues professional service firm leaders face daily. As in all HBS courses, we... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a leader confronting ethical dilemmas or difficult choices... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
recruits workers who are “literate and numerate, but otherwise not experienced in the health sciences” and trains them in the basics of health diagnostics and treatment, such that they can play an important role in a health outbreak,” Trelstad says. A View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
a required course called The Entrepreneurial Manager was created. TEM focused on financing and development of new ventures, with a few cases dealing with entrepreneurial managers in large organizations included. The course quickly rose from one of the lowest-rated in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
teaching capabilities. With roots at Harvard Law School, the case method of instruction had been a central feature of the HBS curriculum since the School's inception, but the quality of case-method instruction was sometimes variable.... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent
By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko
In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Curriculum and Courses; Executive Education; Social Entrepreneurship; National Security; Recruitment; Retention; Job Interviews; Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Retirement; Nonprofit Organizations; War; Education Industry; San Diego; Virginia
Groysberg, Boris, and John Masko. "The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent." Harvard Business School Case 421-006, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Without it, they would always approach nonprofits as philanthropy. I believe our curriculum conditions our graduates to ask the difficult questions on performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches.... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
learning. Instead of one teacher delivering the entire math curriculum to a class of 20-25 students, School of One utilized a technology platform that allowed several teachers to collectively oversee the learning of a larger group of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Curriculum Strategy course to students at Harvard Business School. Purchase this overview: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707492 Kerr-McGee Harvard Business School Case 207-020 Activist investors Carl Icahn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace