Publications

April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
Case

Neeley University Investment Management Company

This case analyzes the problem of a university looking to reduce its private equity exposure in its endowment. The university hires Cogent Partners, a small investment bank specializing in private equity secondary trading. View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Private Equity; Higher Education; Education Industry; Education Industry

August 2009
Case

Alex Mandl: Life Story of a Recent MBA

By: Nitin Nohria, Matthew D. Breitfelder and Daisy A Wademan Dowling

Keywords: Higher Education

1973
Book

Curriculum Recommendations for Graduate Professional Programs in Information Systems

By: F. W. McFarlan, R. L. Nolan and D. P. Norton

Keywords: Higher Education; Information Technology

September 2010 (Revised October 2011)
Case

Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg

By: Hanna Halaburda and Aldo Sesia

The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Auctions; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Strategy; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States

1996
Chapter

Trends in University Patenting 1965-1992

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: History; Patents; Higher Education; Trends; Non-Governmental Organizations; Education Industry

September 2010 (Revised October 2010)
Case

HBS Class of 2009: All Talk As They Prepare to Walk?

By: Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria and Dalia Rahman

Max Anderson, HBS Class of 2009, founded the MBA Oath Initiative. The oath was a voluntary pledge "to create value responsibly and ethically." Anderson and a team of students and faculty worked to launch the first MBA Oath Ceremony conducted on campus during Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Values and Beliefs; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Value Creation; Education Industry; Massachusetts

September 2022
Article

In Search of Scholarly Impact

By: Usha C.V Haley, Cary L. Cooper, Andrew J. Hoffman, Tyrone S. Pitsis and Danna Greenberg

This is an introduction to a special issue on the importance and the methods of scholarly impact in real world issues. View Details

Keywords: Research; Higher Education

13 Nov 2009
Conference Presentation

MBAs as revolutionary change agents

By: Shon R. Hiatt and Warner Woodworth

Keywords: Higher Education; Change

2022
Presentation

Rakesh Khurana presents at the 2022 Gender and Work Symposium

August 1985
Article

The College Admissions Problem Is Not Equivalent to the Marriage Problem

By: A. E. Roth

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Higher Education

21 Dec 2018
News

Bridging the Gap

The investment we make in a young person’s higher education is the biggest investment we’re making in their life, and the idea that we would pay a quarter of a million dollars for a student to have an... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

March 2010
Teaching Note

Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309074. View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Competition; Growth Management; Governance Controls; For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Education Industry; China

1993
Chapter

Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Higher Education; Non-Governmental Organizations; Education Industry; Education Industry

13 Apr 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Population Interference in Panel Experiments

Keywords: by Iavor I. Bojinov, Kevin Wu Han, and Guillaume Basse

August 1988 (Revised September 1995)
Background Note

Case Teaching at Harvard Business School: Some Advice for New Faculty

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Teaching; Higher Education; Boston

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

Serum, that compared their own admission rates to their estimates of how likely they thought other researchers were to engage in and admit to the same practices. Higher scores were given to the admissions that were surprisingly common,... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

2022
Chapter

Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture

By: Nicholas Poggioli and Andrew J. Hoffman

Flight is technologically and culturally central to academic life. Academia's flyout culture is built on a set of shared beliefs and values about the importance of flying to being an academic. But flight also generates a large proportion of academia’s carbon emissions,... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Air Transportation; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Higher Education; Education Industry

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2014
Working Paper

What Courses Should Law Students Take?: Harvard's Largest Employers Weigh In

By: John C. Coates, Jesse M. Fried and Kathryn E. Spier

We report the results of an online survey, conducted on behalf of Harvard Law School, of 124 practicing attorneys at major law firms. The survey had two main objectives: (1) to assist students in selecting courses by providing them with data about the relative... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Law; Higher Education