Publications

07 Mar 2017
News

From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World

(via INSEAD.edu) In a wide-ranging interview for the St. Gallen’s Symposium, published by the Huffington Post, Dr. Olivier Giscard D’Estaing (MBA 1951) talks about the deep roots of HBS within the foundation of INSEAD, the European business school where he served many... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

26 Aug 2014
News

When It Comes to Producing Female Entrepreneurs, Harvard, Stanford, MIT Lead the Way

Keywords: Educational Services

31 May 2014
News

Business School, Disrupted

Keywords: HBX; Educational Services

September 2021
Case

Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley

Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Giving Through HBS

control, Baker Foundation Professor Bob Kaplan’s development of the balanced scorecard, or Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter’s insights on competitiveness, the faculty’s ongoing research continues to shape management View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

01 Dec 2003
News

Alumni Author: Thomas H. Fischgrund (MBA ’80)

“Parent” is the job title that Tom Fischgrund (MBA ’80) feels most at home with. He is also the author and editor of several books and president of Management Recruiters of Atlanta Perimeter Center. The father of three children, Fischgrund recently completed 1600... View Details

Keywords: SATs; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

January 2019
Case

AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission; Organization Culture; Non-profit; NGO; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Global Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Secondary Education; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Education Industry; Australia; United States

01 Sep 2005
News

Young Alums Honored for Social Enterprise

urban and rural communities. Fenton manages programs and financial operations for New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), a national nonprofit aimed at improving education for all children by recruiting and supporting leaders for urban public... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Services; Educational Services

June 2003
Case

Memphis City Schools

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Kevin Morris

Associate Superintendent Marieta Harris needs a plan for continuing the momentum of systemic change in this urban school district while facing shifts of leadership and curriculum philosophy, uneven progress on reforms, new tests that put a high proportion of schools on... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leading Change; Transition; Education Industry

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

Keywords: Susan Young; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
News

HBS in China

HBS IN CHINA: The inaugural HBS Executive Education program at the new Harvard Center Shanghai in early January ensured that language was not a barrier to following the presentations. Participants could use headsets for Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth

management knowledge fueled revenue growth, more than half of which came from two market-sensitive units — Executive Education and Harvard Business School Publishing. Both units have rebounded strongly from the recession four years ago.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
News

NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS

Making a point: Professor Joe Lassiter leads a class on developing and evaluating business plans. On the field, they can be the fiercest of competitors. Off the field, thirty veteran NFL players teamed up to work toward a common goal during an intensive HBS custom... View Details

Keywords: NFL; Ted Johnson; Todd Collins; Mike Haynes; Educational Services; Educational Services

November 2017
Case

Outrageous Ambition: Duke University

By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang

Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the... View Details

28 Jan 2011
News

HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation

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: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

April 2020
Teaching Plan

Malcolm Turner at Vanderbilt

By: David G. Fubini, Amy Klopfenstein and James Barnett

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Malcolm Turner at Vanderbilt,” HBS 420-024. The case examines the early decisions of Vanderbilt University’s new athletic director, Malcolm Turner. A newcomer to college athletics, Turner made a series of... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Sports; Planning; Strategic Planning; Education; Higher Education; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Education Industry; Education Industry; Tennessee