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- March 2023
- Supplement
Halftime for Heidelberg
By: Debora L. Spar
The case follows President Rob Huntington as he seeks to find a viable way forward for Heidelberg University.
Located in Tiffin, Ohio, Heidelberg is a small, private, four-year university. As with many similar institutions of higher education, it currently faces... View Details
Located in Tiffin, Ohio, Heidelberg is a small, private, four-year university. As with many similar institutions of higher education, it currently faces... View Details
Keywords: University; University Administration; University Endowment; Endowments; Brand Management; Higher Education; Strategic Planning; Brands and Branding; Education Industry; Ohio; United States
Spar, Debora L. "Halftime for Heidelberg." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 721-701, March 2023. (Click here to access this case.)
- January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network
Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the... View Details
Leschly, Stig. "KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network." Harvard Business School Case 803-124, January 2003. (Revised April 2003.)
- 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
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
Think of Harvard Business School's recently launched the Digital Initiative (D/I) as a giant laboratory, where leading scholars and practitioners convene to research, teach, and put into practice new understandings about the relentless digital transformation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
Nabil El-Hage, and Wallace. A Michigan native, Wallace described being raised by her grandmother, a woman who believed in her and made many sacrifices for her granddaughter’s education and music training. “She bought my concert attire and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Great Expectations
exercises — some of which were pioneered in our Executive Education programs — that were immersive, field-based, and action-oriented. Our goal was to complement the case method with a more field-based approach to learning — one that would... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Stanford Graduate School of Business
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In fall 2007, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) adopted a new curriculum that it heralded as a "revolutionary change in management education." The new approach aimed at increasing the level and quality of student academic engagement. This case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses; Globalization; Leadership Development; Cognition and Thinking; Adaptation; Education Industry; California
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Stanford Graduate School of Business." Harvard Business School Case 308-010, February 2008. (Revised February 2008.)
- 25 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases
- June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Joel Klein and Leadership in the NYC Public Schools
By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie, Richard Arum and Abby Larson
Reviews the work of the New York City School Chancellor Joel Klein and his attempt to create a Leadership Academy in order to better train principals to lead New York City public schools. Assesses what leadership skills and strategies are necessary for Klein to create... View Details
Keywords: Education; Training; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)
Marquis, Christopher, Doug Guthrie, Richard Arum, and Abby Larson. "Joel Klein and Leadership in the NYC Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 407-065, June 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 2022
- Chapter
Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture
By: Nicholas Poggioli and Andrew J. Hoffman
Flight is technologically and culturally central to academic life. Academia's flyout culture is built on a set of shared beliefs and values about the importance of flying to being an academic. But flight also generates a large proportion of academia’s carbon emissions,... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Air Transportation; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Higher Education; Education Industry
Poggioli, Nicholas, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture." Chap. 10 in Academic Flying and the Means of Communication, edited by Kristian Bjørkdahl and Adrian Santiago Franco Duharte, 237–268. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The MBA at a Crossroads
It’s not often that a speech by an academic generates optimism in a room full of educational leaders facing significant challenges. But that’s what happened back in February when HBS professor Srikant Datar addressed business school deans... View Details
- October 2023
- Case
Lasell University in 2023: Securing the Future
By: John Jong-Hyun Kim and Mary C. Sauer
In a groundbreaking move on September 20, 2022, Lasell University's President, Michael B. Alexander, announced an extraordinary 33% reduction in tuition, room, board, and fees, signaling a pivotal shift in higher education. Situated in an affluent Boston suburb,... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Cost; Valuation; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Kim, John Jong-Hyun, and Mary C. Sauer. "Lasell University in 2023: Securing the Future." Harvard Business School Case 324-049, October 2023.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), an organization devoted to entrepreneurship education and research. The USASBE named HBS the winner of its National Model MBA Program award at its annual conference in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
construction crews made steady progress on the most dramatic campus transformation in the last decade. On the former site of Kresge Hall, giant cranes moved steel girders into place as part of the construction of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center [see map], a new... View Details
- January 2007 (Revised June 2007)
- Background Note
Technology Transfer at U.S. Universities
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Josh Lerner and David Kiron
Technology transfer from U.S. universities to industry has increased dramatically in the last 25 years. Reviews the history of technology transfer with particular emphasis on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. It then examines how universities responded to Bayh-Dole, the... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Information Technology; Laws and Statutes; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., Josh Lerner, and David Kiron. "Technology Transfer at U.S. Universities." Harvard Business School Background Note 807-124, January 2007. (Revised June 2007.)
- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a real-world market investment... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30 foreign View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Educational Services; Educational Services
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
School’s two main revenue generators, Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing, led with strong revenue growth. Driven by newly launched open-enrollment courses and the first increase in custom program participation since the... View Details