Publications

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

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that demand, business schools around the world turn out about 500,000 MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United States alone. At HBS, the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
News

New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

Educational Clubs of America, he developed the award-winning "Learn and Earn" program, which introduces high-school students to business through hands-on economic education. As an HBS alumnus, he was the founding chairman of the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other colleges and universities to give experienced executives “an... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

October 2018
Case

Phuc Huynh and Teach for Vietnam (A)

By: Leslie Perlow and Eunice Eun

This Harvard Business School case is about Harvard Kennedy School graduate, Phuc Huynh, who wants to establish Teach for Vietnam (TFV) in his home country and become an official Teach for All partner. It considers the concepts of giving back in one’s career and the... View Details

Keywords: Vietnam; Giving Back; Career Decisions; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Mission and Purpose; Leadership Development; Education Industry; Viet Nam; Asia

01 Mar 2011
News

Entrepreneurs’ Fund

Dan Rumennik, Jess Bloomgarden, and Andrew Rosenthal (all HBS ’12) are the driving forces behind the establishment of a new initiative, funded by the Rock Center, that offers a total of $50,000 to HBS student entrepreneurs. Awards of $5,000 each to ten selected teams... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

Profile

Constanza Oliveira e Sousa

You’ve accepted a position at Education First, but your background is in engineering. What happened? It’s true, I don’t have an education background. By training, I’m an electrical engineer, and I did my MS... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

New Building Takes Shape

Alumni returning to campus for this year's reunions will no doubt notice the new Executive Education housing facility under construction on the north end of Kresge lawn. Ground was broken for the six-story, 96,000-square-foot structure... View Details

2014
Working Paper

Conflicts of College Conference Realignment: Pursuing Revenue, Preserving Tradition, and Assessing the Future

By: Vadim Kogan and Stephen A. Greyser

Over the past two years, conference realignment has taken a front seat in the college sports landscape. Economic incentives were too attractive to overlook for some universities. College football programs across the country have a lot at stake, because for many,... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Higher Education; Sports; Revenue; Emotions; Education Industry; Education Industry

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October 2017
Case

NetDragon

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Keywords: NetDragon; China; E-learning; Fuzhou; Gaming; Education; Entrepreneurship; Internet; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; China

01 Dec 2005
News

Andrews, Raymond Remembered

trained generations of MBA students in the art of writing clearly and cogently. A graduate of HBS (MBA 11/’47) and of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (Ed.D. ’57), Raymond taught MBA courses in arts-organization and small-business... View Details

July 2014
Case

Venture Capital at the Harvard Management Company in Historical Perspective

By: Felda Hardymon, Tom Nicholas and Vasiliki Fouka

The compromise between capital preservation and growth has always been central to the performance of the Harvard endowment. Setting an institutional structure for effectively governing this compromise became especially important when the Harvard Management Company... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Management; Asset Management; Higher Education; Investment; Education Industry; Education Industry; Cambridge

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 Sep 2012
News

Doctoral Alumni Take Stage

Graduates of the HBS Doctoral Programs scatter far and wide to launch their academic careers at prestigious US and foreign universities. Now, a select group returns to campus each spring at the School’s invitation to participate in Young Alumni Research Day (YARD). The... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

January 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Teaching Note

Lawyers & Leases TN

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz

Teaching Note for (9-801-166). View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Education; Education Industry