Executive Education - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

HBS (Nohria will introduce it to second-year students), in conjunction with a multimedia video case comprising oral histories of HBS alumnae and female professors. Second-year students and some Executive View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

Murat Ülker, the chairman of Yildiz, decides to change the management structure and encourage rethinking brand positioning, channels, and communications in the U.S. market. How was the Godiva brand affected by the execution problems of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

education leaders espouse when making the case for undergraduate education. A 2013 survey of executives commissioned by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, for instance, suggested that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

disrupting one’s own products and services, and operating with a nonhierarchical organization (à la Hamel). Salim presented many examples of exponential organizations under development; nearly all originated on or near the West Coast. The role of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

well.” Sarah Usdin says she founded NSNO "almost by accident" as she used her local and national education network to assist many charter school entrepreneurs who were launching schools right after the storm. As a former Teach... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

field studies after. We have a strong commitment to ideas as the place where the educational experience begins. In executive education, we might think about increasing the number of programs we offer... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

the impact of new technologies, new management techniques, and an increasing pace of planning and execution on teaching philosophies for management, such as the participant-centered case method. The rate of change in the past few years... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

taking risks." Click to watch. Eleven years later, that bet is more than paying off. As chief strategy and knowledge officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13 aspiring principals in two cities... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

e-mail interview, HBS Working Knowledge talked with team member Raj De Datta to hear more about the plan and next steps for Gyaana.Tishler: What inspired you to develop Gyaana? De Datta: The genesis of Gyaana came from two observations: the critical importance of View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Healthcare and Harvard Business School Alumni in 2008

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cara Sterling

This case chronicles the role that Harvard Business School alumni play in the healthcare industry. Overall data on alumni is given, and the industry is broken into seven areas in which the careers of twenty-five alumni are highlighted. View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Executive Education; Personal Development and Career; Practice; Health Industry

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24 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

increase the quality and impact of faculty research. With roles and boundaries clear, such on-going relationships with firms, particularly those rooted in executive education venues, increase the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

already thinking about Version 3 for MBAs, and Casadesus-Masanell hopes to tweak the simulation for his executive education courses. Into the sim There have been some downsides to HBS creating its own... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Education

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the director community—through Executive Education programs—and help them think about some of these questions. Kanter: Suppose we took some of these issues we've been discussing—CEO compensation, for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

community center. Such projects are good for team building and may augment limited community budgets, even build new relationships, but they don't change the education system or strengthen economic prospects for community residents. In... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

had full access to corporate archives and executives and provides us with a unique insight into the workings and strategies of one of the world's oldest and largest multinationals. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution As a System of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

as this concept, it is exceptionally easy to identify so many implementation problems that you simply give up. One key to new product development is to keep the ambition of the vision always front and centre to motivate you to solve these many problems that you're... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

opportunities we have to develop more interaction with the business community through colloquia like this and through Executive Education programs. I think it's critically important for HBS and for the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

some people believe," he emphasizes. The fact that such strategies often do not exist or are ineffective is frequently the result of how CSR efforts start. At many companies, these efforts may begin by executive mandate or somewhat... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market... View Details