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  • June 2016
  • Article

When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details
Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • October 2002
  • Case

New Leaders for New Schools

Describes the founding, early growth, and expansion plans of New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit public education venture that recruits, trains, places, and supports principals in U.S. urban school districts. This case presents the strategic, financial, and... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry
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  • 21 Oct 2011
  • News

Business School Students Agog over Gaga

  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

schools are public schools of choice that operate outside the governance and policies of their local school districts. In nearly all states,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • Web

Harvard Business School

Archives Films HBS Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collectons Available for Download by clicking the Titles below. Title Conference Dates At the Crossroads: View Details
  • Article

The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win

By: Robert Simons
As business leaders worry about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools; Purpose Of Business Schools; Management Education; Business School Curriculum; Strategy Execution; U.S. Competitiveness; Capitalism; Management Profession; Innovation; Competing To Win; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Trends; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Design; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Management
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  • March 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Module Note

Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture

By: Laura Alfaro
This module note presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE). The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Globalized Economies and Regions; Macroeconomics
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  • 04 Oct 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Tania Babina, Columbia Business School

  • 27 Mar 2019
  • News

Harvard Business School Joins Farm Forward’s Leadership Circle

  • 19 May 2016
  • Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

transformational experience Making the choice to come to business school is difficult for many because it feels like a “time-out” from advancing careers. However, the two years are a chance to take a quick... View Details
  • September 2019
  • Article

Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach

By: Franklyn Wang, Ravi Jagadeesan and Scott Duke Kominers
We introduce a new model of school choice with reserves in which a social planner is constrained by a limited supply of reserve seats and tries to find an optimal matching according to a social welfare function. We construct the optimal distribution of reserves via a... View Details
Keywords: Matching; Reserves; Dynamic Programming; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Applying to Business School as a Couple

together.   Did you both know that you wanted to attend business school? We both decided that business school was the right choice for us. We are both from the West Coast and wanted to find a way to both... View Details
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

Summing Up Business school relevance is an issue, judging from the predominance of responses to this month's column. The ways of increasing relevance were advanced, but the question of whether, in the current academic context, they can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Feb 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Kamalini Ramdas, London School of Business

  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

The School of Life

unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen shared his thoughts about... View Details
Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management
  • 27 Apr 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Claudine Gartenberg, NYU Stern School of Business

    Are the 'Best and Brightest' Going into Finance? Skill Development and Career Choice of MIT Graduates

    Abstract

    Using detailed data on recipients of bachelor's degrees from MIT between 2006 and 2012, I examine the selection of students into finance or science and engineering (S&E). I find that academic achievement in college is negatively correlated with... View Details

    • 22 Apr 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Riitta Katila, Stanford School of Engineering

    • 11 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain

    Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado