Publications

1999
Chapter

Managing Change in Higher Education: A Leader's Guide

By: D. Q. Mills and J. Pumo

Keywords: Change Management; Higher Education; Leading Change; Education Industry

September 2000
Case

MBA in Jeopardy (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Gagan Gupta and Phani K. Nagarjuna

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Interdisciplinary Studies; Education; Performance; Crime and Corruption; Education Industry

September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
Case

Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg

By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia

The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Auctions; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Strategy; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

girl” from the hills of Jamaica, Sacasha Brown moved with her parents and two younger brothers to Delray Beach, Florida, when she was 10. “My parents made many sacrifices to educate and support us, and they always told me I could be... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

1996
Chapter

Trends in University Patenting 1965-1992

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: History; Patents; Higher Education; Trends; Non-Governmental Organizations; Education Industry

June 2003
Case

Booker T. Washington High School

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

For over a decade, Principal Elsie Bailey has led a turnaround of this inner-city high school in Memphis. Although she's made progress, some problems have arisen for this "school of last resort" that deals with some of the more difficult student populations, and... View Details

Keywords: Secondary Education; Social Issues; Social Psychology; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Education Industry; Tennessee

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

freedom to set their research priorities. Faculty research, in turn, produces the intellectual capital disseminated by HBS Publishing and Executive Education programs. These two business units generate more than half of the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

01 Jun 2006
News

Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS

To help Chinese CEOs operate more effectively in the global economy, HBS has teamed up with two other business schools to develop the Global CEO Program for China (GCPC), an Executive Education offering consisting of four week long... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2009
News

Back to School

D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details

Keywords: Anthony Priest; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2008
News

New York HBS Club Donates Over $1 Million to Nonprofits

receive $200,000 for need-based MBA fellowships and for two full scholarships for nonprofit leaders to attend the Executive Education Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program. Said the New York club’s Bennett Goodman (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

17 Dec 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

Keywords: by Pian Shu; Education; Education

June 2001 (Revised June 2001)
Case

Student Who Was Missing-in-Action, The

Assistant Professor Sam Benson was about to end the class session portion of his course with only student projects remaining. Then, he received a phone call from a student, George McHenry, who had missed 11 of 20 sessions. McHenry wanted to know what he needed to do to... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Higher Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Education Industry

September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
Case

HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?

By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Dalia Rahman

Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Value Creation; Education Industry; Massachusetts