Middle School Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

Press, 2007). Within five years, business school faculties became specialized along traditional academic disciplines, with particular emphasis on economics and quantitative analysis. And that's largely where they remain today. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

02 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

SchoolsKevin Johnson, CEO & President, St HOPE Public SchoolsWendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach for AmericaMichelle Rhee, Chancellor, Washington DC Public Schools A national crisis exists in public education. The root causes include... View Details

Keywords: Education

01 Dec 2003
News

For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

school systems that have achieved a high level of excellence overall.” To address this situation, HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education have launched a three-year... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

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Harvard Business School

Baker Library Special Collections Exhibits More Exhibits Explore the Exhibit Student Pioneers The Value of Business Education The Golden Age of Black Business AASU Early Years & Influence AASU Founders Core Demands & Proposals Early Years... View Details

24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

that could better personalize middle and high school education, closing the gap between students who excelled and those who needed support? So, in 2012, Zaikos launched the Intrinsic School—a network of... View Details

25 Apr 2023
HBS Seminar

Bart Vanneste, UCL School of Management

2012
Working Paper

Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre Martinez-Fritscher and Martina Viarengo

In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary education in subnational units in Brazil during a period (1889–1930) in which they had relative financial autonomy to collect export taxes and spend on public goods. The... View Details

Keywords: History; Literacy; Voting; Education; Spending; Performance Improvement; Government and Politics; Brazil

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October 2010 (Revised April 2013)
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Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

Bridge International was founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise to address the educational needs of poor children in Africa. Ten schools were operational in Kenya by 2010. The plan was to franchise nearly 3,000 schools all over Africa. The case is meant to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Education; Growth and Development; Franchise Ownership; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Social Enterprise; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Kenya

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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

the potential of this union? (PM): First, having multi-modal ways of delivering learning when corporations come to the School asking to educate their managers or leaders in a specific topic—we're the only... View Details

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The Significance of Race Research in the 21st Century

Harvard Business School AASU50 Research Findings

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

engaged in education in ways that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak education system, and thoroughly inadequate to help strengthen the system," says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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School Leadership | About

Kierstead Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations Ellen Mahoney Chief Human Resources Officer Richard P. Melnick Chief Financial Officer Patrick Mullane Executive Director, Harvard Business School Online and... View Details

02 Sep 2021
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Back to School

Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Providing education and opportunities to children in Pakistan

could plan and I could do multiple things which they in their illiteracy were helpless to do. “So I acquired a piece of land and put together the money and I built a school. And word had gotten around that there’s a school where View Details