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- 14 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
Can you tell us about your background, including your pre-MBA industry and role? I am a joint degree MBA/MPP (Masters in Public Policy) candidate at Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. I graduated summa cum... View Details
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Pamela Harder
Melinda Gates Foundation, Hewlett Foundation), to K12 school districts & education-focused organizations (Pittsburgh Public Schools, Virginia early childhood education collective). Pam has worked with a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
schools. What was the appeal of charter schools in this sensitive environment? What opportunities do they present both for improving public education and utilizing best practices in entrepreneurship?... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 and radically transformed the strategy and organization remarkably with improvements in performance. Day 1 of the two case series focuses on the steps taken by Klein over his eight year tenure. Supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Corporate Strategy; Education; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 1." Harvard Business School Case 311-032, August 2010. (Revised July 2012.)
Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
How does a firm's human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two... View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Business schools are positioned on increasingly unsteady—and unpopular—ground. MBA enrollments fluctuate or decline; recruiters voice skepticism about the value of newly-minted MBA degrees; and deans, faculty, students, executives, and a concerned View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that... View Details
- 16 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)
What was your undergraduate university and major? I studied Environmental Science and Public Policy at Harvard College. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process? I’ve always aspired to integrate my values... View Details
- 22 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
- October 2008
- Article
It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- 16 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?
The mission at Harvard Business School is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The Leadership Fellows program, an opportunity for a select group of graduating students, is one of the key ways the school supports and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 14 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)
Paulina Llano (MBA 2022) has traveled the world for education and business, but Cali, Colombia will always be home. In fact, it has been her family’s home for the past 300 years, so the city, and the country as a whole, are deeply... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
Howard H. Stevenson
Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details
Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
Managing School Districts for High Performance

- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
rethink the entire traditional higher education model. Private universities without national recognition and large endowments are at great financial risk. So are public universities, even prestigious ones... View Details
Michael W. Toffel
Professor Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. His research examines how companies are addressing climate change (especially decarbonization) and other environmental and working condition issues in their operations and supply... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
part of the physician's learning and socialization. The first incision is something few physicians forget. That procedure is reproduced time after time, in country after country, and provides a seminal building block of medical education... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details