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Educators

2015
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Daniella Suarez and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Beatriz Cardoso, founder of Laboratório de Educação (Education Laboratory) had a dream to propel Brazilian education. However, challenges in fundraising made it difficult to scale up her project, based on helping adults help children improve their literacy skills. To... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Business Startups; Information Technology; Leading Change; Brazil

10 Apr 2017

Real Students of HBS: Coming to HBS from Education

This webinar will focus on coming to HBS from an education background and will include a Q&A with a student panel. View Details

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

available to students living in larger cities and began to consider how to close the education gap not just in Japan, but around the world. This question eventually led Takatsuka to Harvard Business School, Nairobi, Kenya, and then back... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

Web

3.9 Annual Notice: Higher Education Opportunity Act | MBA

3.9 Annual Notice: Higher Education Opportunity Act The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires colleges and universities that participate in federal student aid programs to disclose various aspects of the... View Details

Article

Financial Education and the Debt Behavior of the Young

By: Jaya Y. Wen, Meta Brown, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Basit Zafar and John Grigsby

March 2001
Editorial

In My Opinion: Let the Market Shape Higher Education

By: John Quelch

06 May 2023
News

New Data Map Bridges Higher Education and Labour Market

Blog

Welcome to our Harvard Business School Executive Education Blog

Bookmark this page and come back often for the inside view of HBS Executive Education. We'll provide updates on what’s happening on campus, faculty insights, trends in executive education, book recommendations, stories from past program participants, and much more. View Details

2016
Chapter

A Global Dialogue on Liberal Arts and Sciences: Re-engagement, Re-imagination, and Experimentation

By: William C. Kirby and Marijk C. van der Wende

Book Abstract: This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why... View Details

Keywords: International And Comparative Education; Educational Policy And Politics; Education; Global Range; Arts; Science; Education Industry

Video

HBS Alumni for Social Impact - Where Does Higher Education Go From Here?

01 Apr 2002
News

Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club

led by Professor Nancy F. Koehn on her recent book, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell. Loughran's goal is to make the series a monthly event that will serve as "an ongoing continuing education... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

September 2014
Article

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

By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Martina Viarengo

We show how the decentralization of fiscal responsibility among Brazilian states between 1889 and 1930 promoted an unequal expansion of public schooling. We document how the variation in state export tax revenues, product of commodity booms, explains improvements in... View Details

Keywords: Institutions; Economic History; Education; Development Economics; Policy; Brazil

2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Beatriz Cardoso and Education in Brazil

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching Note for 316-055. View Details