Publications

July 2020
Teaching Plan

Girls Who Code

By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein

This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter... View Details

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Curriculum - Case Method Project

vote. Coverage: 1800 – 1846; Panic of 1837; infrastructure and “internal improvements”; public debt; New York State; constitutional conventions; Barnburners; Erie Canal; direct democracy The Struggle Over View Details

January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
Case

KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network

Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Middle School Education; Expansion; Education Industry; Houston

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Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status | About

credential programs on vital business topics, including negotiation, accounting, finance, and leadership, combining the flexibility of online learning with the rigor and quality of a Harvard Business School education to equip you with new... View Details

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Building a Legacy

opportunities Apply frameworks for evaluating unique investment opportunities for family real estate, niche assets, emerging markets, public market ideas, and startup/venture-backed investments Determine whether (and how) to pursue... View Details

April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Teach for America

On the eve of Teach For America's tenth reunion, Wendy Kopp, the 32-year-old founder and leader of the national teacher corps, is considering how to increase the impact of the organization. To date, the organization has placed 5,000 teachers in under-resourced public... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Leadership Style; Education Industry; United States

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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Citation Educators Purchase Related Narayanan, V.G., Henry Eyring, and David Lane. "Humana Commits to Value-Based Care." Harvard Business School Case 125-013, May 2025. (Revised May 2025.) More Publications... View Details

20 Jan 2016
Cold Call Podcast

The Power of Presence at the Podium

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

uncover in the data. We show that inventors were highly educated and that father’s income and education were important intergenerational transmission channels. Inventors tended to migrate to places that were... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2007 (Revised June 2008)
Case

The Lapdesk Company: A South African FOPSE

Shane Immelman, founding CEO of Lapdesk (South Africa), is facing several acute problems: a conflict between his director of marketing and his director of field operations; a dramatic increase in prices by a key supplier; and a major strategic alliance that does not... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Education Industry; South Africa