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- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930 Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan Abstract Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
in the top 25 percent of charity care were 26 percent less likely to be sanctioned for upcoding than those in the bottom 25 percent. In addition, he looked at which hospitals provided medical education for residents—another View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- July 2002
- Case
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Mentoring Program, The (A)
By: David A. Thomas and Gina Carioggia
Describes steps taken to implement and manage a successful employee mentoring program at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. A cultural change at the bank provided the context out of which the program grew. The case describes the development of the program,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Training; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Public Ownership; Planning
Thomas, David A., and Gina Carioggia. "Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Mentoring Program, The (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-019, July 2002.
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
to megacorporations. One of these programs, called the Immersion Experience Program (IXP), each year sends 30 or so potential MBAs to Japan, where they receive a unique education made possible by one of the most lethal disasters in modern... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Resources Defense Council, 350.org, Protect Our Winters, and Citizen's Climate Lobby to support their work, become educated on climate science and policy solutions, and understand effective lobbying. Fifth, managers should demand that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
for everyone and also highlighted the important link between research, discovery, and cure." The GPP is a statewide prevention program aimed at reducing the use of dangerous drugs among teens and young adults through awareness campaigns, View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
P. Pisano: It was clear there that there was a huge set of interesting and important management issues going on that were not being addressed elsewhere, and that we were in a good position to address. Public policy issues were being... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
child education and health in the least likely setting of rural Uttar Pradesh. Building on the recent literature on culture and public action, and relying on extensive field research, village-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
society," Wagle added. "There are some very difficult places in Africa where the private sector is just not possible." Health, education and infrastructure should be under the wing of government, he said, with rules of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
Sandusky did to young boys for the next 14 years. Ironically, had Penn State turned Sandusky over to legal authorities in 1998, the public would have viewed its actions as protecting the victims, thereby enhancing the University's... View Details
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the nonprofit, private, and public... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
writing some 75 comments have been submitted. Finally, I thought you would be interested in learning the most popular WK articles since we set up shop. You can see the results here. Thank you to our more than 2 million annual visitors who have supported and contributed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
increased public pressure to help address societal problems, for-profit firms have adopted social responsibility policies, which have pushed them to focus more on social initiatives." “Some of them have been accused of losing sight of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
greater risk and thus affects resource allocation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
Partnership's efforts to improve local public education. As the case opens in May 2014, the Partnership's leaders must decide whether to continue to try to improve public View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
Drop it on the ground. Sprinkle water on its surface. Let it sit in the sun and expose it to swarms of dust—the XO laptop is designed to handle most any abuse from a child. But the journey of the XO laptop from concept to the educational... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
public market. Explores at the corporate level the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits while achieving excellent educational outcomes. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
was the hit of the fair, with more attendees and rave reviews than any other exhibit. Other companies spending large amounts of money to educate the public about their greatness included Ford, Chrysler,... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow