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Families in Business

Summary Family enterprises must strive for growth amidst fierce competition, an evolving marketplace, and demanding customers. But family enterprises also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities. They require not only effective family governance, View Details

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Crossover Into Business

business decisions, all in a way that fits the athletes’ busy lives, is tailored to their interests, and leverages the acclaimed Harvard Business School case method. Frequently... View Details

09 Jul 2014
News

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

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Business & Environment

increasingly scarce and the threat of climate change ever more urgent. How organizations can connect with students Alumni The Business & Environment Initiative connects alumni with students, faculty, and each other for learning, careers,... View Details

01 Nov 2011
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Harvard Business School's Nohria on Students, Future

03 May 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan

01 Dec 2002
News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

the School's first-ever capital campaign was marked by tradition, awareness of the vital role of business education in today's world, and deep appreciation and respect for the School's role in View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

great success. I've met and talked with thousands of alumni over the past seven years, and I know they share our commitment to the future of HBS. Through their generosity, our alumni allow us to develop new ideas, to bring our knowledge to bear in new kinds of... View Details

27 Oct 2015
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The Role of Business in Collective Impact

November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
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Business as Stakeholder in Public Education: A History of Business Efforts to Improve Public Schools in the United States

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Explores seven roles businesses and business leaders have played with respect to U.S. public education reform historically and today: "owners" helping set the agenda; "investors" donating funds; "customers" hiring graduates; "experts" contributing management know-how;... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Education; Performance Improvement; Business and Community Relations; United States

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18 May 2023
Video

Mabel Abraham presents "Gender-Based Double Standards in Defining High Status: How Educational Status Shapes the Gender Pay Gap"

Jun 2014
Video

Transforming America's Schools: How Business Leaders Can Help

How can business leaders best partner with educators to transform America's schools? Professors Jan Rivkin and Allen Grossman present the U.S. Competitiveness Project's research on the role of View Details

03 Oct 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development

Keywords: by Das Narayandas and Mihnea Moldoveanu; Education

01 Jun 2024
News

Conducting Business

like in the classroom. I wrote this for them. Here’s the scene: It’s the first class of my first day at Harvard Business School in 1969. Five years after graduating from Princeton as an English major, I’ve been discharged from the US... View Details

Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

May 2014 (Revised August 2014)
Teaching Note

Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962–2012

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams