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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Plugged In

car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal... View Details
Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Portrait Project

Josh Latson

realized that I had not done much – my time had been spent building myself up and contributing little to the world around me. I thought again of those words to be etched in stone and my childhood worries soon returned. "Here lies a... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Government, Business and Making China an Educational Powerhouse Since the 1980s

By: Geoffrey Jones, Yuan Jia-Zheng, Yuhai Wu and Qianru Wang
This article examines how China successfully built a highly competent K-12 education system since the 1980s achieving high literacy rates, broad basic education and gender equality. It argues that this success was driven by a strategy of blending public and private... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Literacy; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Education Industry; China
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of the world's population... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Early Childhood Education; Government and Politics; Wealth and Poverty; China; India; Russia; Brazil
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  • October 2001
  • Case

SchoolSuccess.net

By: James E. Austin and Arthur McCaffrey
The mission of the nonprofit Jumpstart for Young Children was to address the problem of school readiness of low-income family preschoolers. It had been growing significantly, and to achieve its projected expansion would require major increases in funding. After... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Early Childhood Education; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Management Teams
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  • Profile

Samuel Racana

improvisation and stage training have come in unexpectedly useful in life. What is your favorite childhood memory? Food has always been at the center of my family gatherings, whether during travels or at home. Cooking during Christmas... View Details
  • Profile

Zayed Muhammed Yasin

designing wouldn't be satisfying to me." Looking for an alternative approach to international development As an undergraduate, Zayed spent a summer in Albania working with refugees from the war in Kosovo. After graduation, he spent a year in Pakistan doing public... View Details
  • Profile

Kam Phillips-Sadler

bending, and goat tying throughout childhood and into her young adult years. In college, however, she turned from wrangling cattle to mentoring children. “I volunteered with children in dream deserts whose idea of fun was throwing rocks... View Details
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

semester is a time fo... Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact Martin Aares 21 Nov 2019 Martin Aares (MBA 2001) had always known his childhood interest in the environment would be part ... Checking in with... View Details
  • Profile

Jay Khil

A childhood in the United States, an adolescence in South Korea, a semester abroad  in China, and a career launch in Dearborn, Michigan – by any measure, Jay Khil is a woman with an international perspective that comes from her core. “The... View Details
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

http://hbr.org/product/fei-cheng-wu-rao/an/414056-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 712-463 Sweet Deal-Industry Self-Regulation of Breakfast Cereal Advertising to Children In response to growing concern about childhood obesity, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

A Man of Influence

childhood as the grandson of Sicilian immigrants to World War II, when he piloted a B-25 attack bomber, to his time as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, to his 39 years amongst the movers and shakers of Hollywood as leader of the... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

What to Expect from your First Week at HBS

I’m originally from Turkey but I spent large portions of my childhood in New York, Greece, and Italy. I returned to Turkey to complete my undergraduate degree and worked in management consulting back home in Istanbul before completing a... View Details
  • October 2022
  • Case

EducationSuperHighway 2.0

By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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  • 2017
  • Case

Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks

By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas... View Details
Keywords: Charter Schools; Nonprofit Organizations; Teaching; Talent Management; Innovation; Organization Structure; Education; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Organizational Structure; Performance Consistency; Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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  • Profile

Olivia Melendez

to cast her next blockbuster hit. Then in 7th grade, a psychic at my friend’s birthday party predicted I’d go on to become a soap opera star. I guess I’m still waiting for my shot What is your favorite childhood memory? There’s a home... View Details
  • Web

Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

up in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest commercial hub, and in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. I have fond memories of my childhood such as learning about Nigeria’s history on my grandpa’s walking tours of Lagos Island, celebrating Eid holidays... View Details
  • Profile

Fereshteh Zeineddin

women in all corners of the world, from executives on Wall Street to Middle Eastern women who use cosmetics as a form of self expression. Fereshteh's appreciation for what cosmetics can do for women grew out of her unique background. Born in Iran, she spent much of her... View Details
  • Profile

Carter Romansky

childhood education or global health delivery. "Many organizations are great at being small- to medium-sized," notes Carter. "I want to help them become huge. The trick is figuring out what you can scale up, what things you... View Details
  • Profile

Oded Navon

me realize that I wanted to specialize in something where I could have more control over the result and create things that would impact many people all at once. So, I dove into another passion of mine – computers – and went on to become a software engineer. What is... View Details