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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Training great principals to lead great schools

At New Leaders, Benjamin Fenton (AB 1996, MBA 2000) directs strategy for the only national organization focused on developing exceptional school leaders for high-need district and charter schools. Between... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Stepping back from the day-to-day demands of leading Save the Children... A Life’s Work Gerald Chertavian MBA 1992 Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) realized what he wanted to do with his li... Tools of the Trade Shannah Varon MBA 2009 As executive director of Boston... View Details
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

As impact investing has emerged as a new, fast-growing category of private investing, so too has the awareness of the stark disparity between access to capital among small business owners. The Harvard Business School (HBS) Impact... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Tools of the Trade | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Tools of the Trade As executive director of Boston Collegiate Charter School (BCCS), Shannah Varón (MBA 2009) uses her MBA skillset “all day, every day,” whether the task at hand involves structuring a... View Details
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A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities Background Over the summer, I was a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow at Victory Schools, an education management organization that partners with and manages charter and public View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Business School has vast holdings documenting many aspects of the history of the railroads and growth of big business nationally and internationally. Please contact us for more information. Henry Villard Business Papers German-born... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • Blog Post

Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Education Sector

summer, I'm interning at KIPP, a public charter school network that aims to lower the achievement gap in K-12 education by serving underserved communities. I'm currently working on two projects: developing a... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

    V.G. Narayanan

    Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
    • March 2007 (Revised December 2008)
    • Case

    Green Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete?

    In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management organization with 10 high-performing high schools around Los Angeles, is faced with a crucial choice... View Details
    Keywords: Secondary Education; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Competition; Cooperation; Los Angeles
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    • January 2008 (Revised December 2008)
    • Case

    Codman Academy: Beyond the Start-up Phase

    By: Stacey Childress and Tiffany K. Cheng
    As it entered its seventh academic year, Codman Academy, an expeditionary learning charter school located in Dorchester, Massachusetts, was reflecting on its successes and challenges. The school had succeeded in placing every member of its most recent graduating class... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Education Industry; Boston
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    • 25 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 25

    social media sensation. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Dumb-Ways-To-Die--Adverti/an/514079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-033 Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2007 (Revised August 2007)
    • Case

    St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision

    St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to New York City. While charter schools are its largest area of activity, founder Kevin Johnson believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities--economic development, civic... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Urban Scope; Adaptation; Expansion; Sacramento; New York (city, NY)
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    • 23 Sep 2021
    • News

    How the Global Supply Chain Grinch Could Steal Christmas

    • 27 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

    Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal, says Harvard Business View Details
    Keywords: by Staff

      Monique Burns Thompson

      Monique Burns Thompson is an accomplished social entrepreneur who returns to HBS (class of 1993) and brings her twenty years of successful start-up and organizational leadership experience to her research and teaching at HBS.  She has led as a co-founder, President,... View Details

      • 25 Apr 2022
      • News

      Unicorns and Explosives: A Burning Ship Off Victoria’s Coast Hints at the Dangerous Secrets of Cargo Carriers

        Srikant M. Datar

        Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; airline; automobiles; banking; biotechnology; communications; consumer products; e-commerce industry; health care; high technology; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; venture capital industry
        • 02 Jan 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        10 Trends to Watch in 2024

        The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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        Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences

        By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
        In demographically diverse organizations, employees charged with socializing others— socialization agents—must navigate a deep tension between the organization’s needs to integrate individuals into a collective and individuals’ needs for recognition of their unique... View Details
        Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Identity; Employees
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