Publications

June 2020
Teaching Note

Fossil Fuel Divestment

By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick

Teaching note to accompany HBS case 620-093, Fossil Fuel Divestment, by Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Public Opinion; Education Industry; Cambridge

01 Mar 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

school deans, corporate recruiters, and executives, who broadly agreed that business schools faced significant challenges in educating leaders for 21st-century global commerce. The second attracted more than 100 HBS faculty, who came to a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2012
News

HBS Is Committed to Increasing Alumni Engagement

Skeete Tatum HBS has taken on a major initiative to deepen its connection to alumni by increasing engagement and participation. To better understand the relationships that currently exist between alumni and HBS, the School has launched a research study to examine the... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Skeete Tatum; engagement; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

March 2005
Supplement

Ninth House: e-Learning Software (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Learning; Software; Education Industry; Education Industry

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01 Dec 2000
News

Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology

legacy of leadership beyond the scope of the School's MBA and Executive Education Programs. "The idea is to reach out to alumni and to the world at large, deploying innovative technology to leverage traditional and nontraditional... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2004
News

HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report

Education and Harvard Business School Publishing of $169 million, an increase of 5.6 percent. These two business operations provide a major source of income to support faculty research, in addition to their critical strategic role in... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

Where Are They Now?

taught the first-year MBA course in management accounting and later a second-year elective in management control systems. He also taught in a variety of Executive Education programs. “I’d never taught using the case method, so that took... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

educate leaders who will make a difference in the world, the Doctoral Programs educate people like Akinola who will educate future generations of business leaders. “We have a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group

a gift of $50 million from the Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the Tata Education and Development Trust, philanthropic entities of India’s Tata Group. The gift, the largest from an international donor in the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Tata Hall

01 Feb 2001
News

HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration

HBS and Stanford University are teaming up to explore online executive management education. The new collaboration between these pioneers in electronic learning is designed to create a distribution platform for nondegree courses. "Stanford and HBS share a common... View Details

Keywords: HBS Interactive; e-learning; Educational Services; Educational Services

January 2011 (Revised February 2011)
Case

GLOBIS

By: Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato

Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA program in September 2012. GLOBIS University was already offering successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Education; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Adaptation; Expansion; Education Industry; Japan

June 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Peabody Elementary School (B)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Kevin Morris

After six months as principal of the school, Marty Pettigrew has commenced a series of reform initiatives to improve its academic performance and culture. As the school year ends, he must assess his progress and decide on his strategies for the following year. He... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement; Middle School Education; Personal Development and Career; Strategy; Education Industry

January 1978 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Budget Crisis of the Boston School System, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry

November 1976 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Budget Crisis of the Boston School Committee

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Budgets and Budgeting; Crisis Management; Education Industry; Boston

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June 2011
Case

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joe Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 2

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Keywords: Leadership; Transformation; Public Sector; Education; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

Why Does the Leadership Industry Continue to Thrive? The unstated assumption underlying most of responses to this month’s column is that the leadership industry has done little or nothing to improve leadership behaviors or to deter unproductive leadership actions.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

March 8, 2016
Article

Cognitive Fatigue Influences Students' Performance on Standardized Tests

By: Hans Henrik Sievertsen, F. Gino and Marco Piovesan

Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by the weekly class schedule and computer availability at the school. We find... View Details

Keywords: Time Management; Education; Performance Evaluation; Education Industry; Denmark

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November 1993
Case

Thurgood Marshall High School

By: John J. Gabarro

Presents the problem facing a newly appointed high-school principal. Raises issues about interpersonal and group behavior including lack of open conflict resolution and the need to intervene in an interpersonal conflict. Also raises the issue of intergroup conflict... View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Employee Relationship Management; Secondary Education; Groups and Teams; Education Industry