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  • January 2009
  • Case

Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China

By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Keith Chi-ho Wong and Tracy Manty
Huang Teng founded Xi'an International University (XAIU) as a private institute of higher education in 1992. Throughout its ensuing years, the school filled a niche and met the demand of students who did not test into one of China's public institutions. In 2008, it was... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Growth and Development Strategy; Private Ownership; Expansion; Education Industry; China
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    John D. Macomber

    John Macomber is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School. His professional background includes leadership of real estate, construction, and information technology businesses. At HBS, Mr. Macomber's work focuses on climate adaptation and the... View Details

    Keywords: building materials; construction; energy; green technology; infrastructure industry; real estate; transportation; utilities; waste management; insurance industry

      Robert Simons

      Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

        Max H. Bazerman

        Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
        Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals
        • January 2004 (Revised April 2004)
        • Case

        Excel Academy Charter Middle School, The

        This case is set in the summer of 2002 in a recently approved charter middle school in Boston. The school's founders face a choice of compensation plans as they finalize the initial teaching team in the school. In particular, the founders are actively considering two... View Details
        Keywords: Teaching; Performance; Compensation and Benefits; Boston
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          James L. Heskett

          James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

          • 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 150 K-8 students, with a focus on... View Details
          Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

            John A. Quelch

            John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

            Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
            • March 2012
            • Article

            Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

            By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Matthew Weinzierl
            The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal government will take in far less money than it spends-indefinitely. Our current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways, and business conditions in the... View Details
            Keywords: Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; Policy; Competition; Public Administration Industry; United States
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            • 01 May 2018
            • News

            'Rebels’ Approach Work in a Completely Different Way Than Their Peers. Here Are 3 Things They Do Better

            • 27 Oct 2016
            • Blog Post

            Meet the Management Consulting Club

            possible. Each year, we organize various events to educate students about career opportunities within the consulting industry, coordinate with employers to publicize open positions, and provide students with... View Details
            Keywords: Consulting
            • 15 Mar 2022
            • News

            A Course for the Commercial Space Age

              Jeffrey F. Rayport

              Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details

                Robert S. Huckman

                Robert Huckman is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, the Howard Cox Faculty Chair of the HBS Healthcare Initiative, and the Unit Head for View Details

                Keywords: biotechnology; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals

                  Julie Battilana

                  Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

                  • 2018
                  • Book

                  High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences

                  By: Gordon H. Hanson, William R. Kerr and Sarah Turner
                  Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U.S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect economic growth,... View Details
                  Keywords: Immigration; Policy; Economics; Outcome or Result; United States
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                    Amitabh Chandra

                    Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he is the Faculty Chair of the joint View Details

                    • April 1990 (Revised January 1993)
                    • Case

                    Ad Council's AIDS Campaign (A): Advertising Strategy

                    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Janet Montgomery
                    Ad Council wished to run an educational campaign aimed at preventing the spread of AIDS. They were challenged to find acceptable ways to address this very sensitive subject matter--ways that the media and the public would approve. One of the big challenges was to make... View Details
                    Keywords: Advertising; Goals and Objectives; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Success; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Health Industry
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                    • 23 Jul 2001
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

                    and astute). The real explanation for his success was that he had the courage of his convictions. Butler Brothers had a training program for variety store franchisees, so Walton was off to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for two weeks of education... View Details
                    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
                    • February 2008 (Revised June 2008)
                    • Case

                    Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG)

                    By: Rajiv Lal and Virginia Fuller
                    As B.S. Nagesh thumbed through the 2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG-a Rs 8.9 billion... View Details
                    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; India
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