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- January 2017
- Case
Flatiron School
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Halah AlQahtani
In late 2016, the founders of Flatiron School, a startup offering 12-week coding bootcamps, are formulating their growth strategy. Their new online-only program has matched the excellent job placement results for their in-person bootcamps. Should Flatiron shift... View Details
- 29 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Great Leap Forward: The Political Economy of Education in Brazil, 1889-1930
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
There I met with a representative from Education Pioneers, an organization that places MBAs into the education sector at public or charter school systems, departments of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers
Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- News
Harvard Business School Joins 10,000 Women
- January 2005
- Case
Launching the Bronx Lab School
By: Stacey M. Childress
Examines the start-up process of a new, small high school inside the New York City public school system, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Covers the entrepreneurial process, the specific performance challenges in public high schools in the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- HBS Seminar
Bart Vanneste, UCL School of Management
Managing School Districts for High Performance
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and... View Details- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
After cofounding a nonprofit to establish academy schools for low-income children in London, England, Jennifer Moses (MBA 1989) is working to provide quality education for disadvantaged children in... View Details
- June 2003
- Case
Peabody Elementary School (A)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Kevin Morris
A new principal, Marty Pettigrew, has just joined this inner-city optional school--which offers special programs in international studies to attract children from all over the city. Entering mid-way through the school year, he observes a number of areas of concern,... View Details
- October 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Bridge International was founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise to address the educational needs of poor children in Africa. Ten schools were operational in Kenya by 2010. The plan was to franchise nearly 3,000 schools all over Africa. The case is meant to... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Fighting income inequality with early education reform
mother of three has been using her business acumen in a partnership with the University of Chicago through the Chicago Heights Early Childhood Center (CHECC), an experimental school program Dias Griffin founded in 2010 that has now helped... View Details
- 2018
- The Significance of Race Research in the 21st Century
Harvard Business School AASU50 Research Findings
- March 1997
- Case
Private Management and Public Schools (A)
Examines the prospects for private management in U.S. public schools. Introduces the U.S. system of education and the concerns driving the education reform process. Focuses on the education and business strategies of Education Alternatives, Inc. (EAI), Public... View Details
- 14 Feb 2008
- News
Harvard Business School Sets Out Centennial Activities
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
launch his own network of schools because he believed typical elementary education was not preparing students adequately for the future. Instead, Ventilla created "microschools," each with 80 to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An engine of innovation in public education
graduate school of education, and operates a publishing and consulting arm that distributes the results of its work in large school districts. “The goal in our schools is to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
precious three months of my life, not what others might think that I should do,” Takatsuka shared. “I ended up pursuing two internships in developing countries in the middle of COVID-19 – no one recommended that I do that! But for me, I... View Details