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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
self-awareness. It’s a bold endeavor rooted in HBS’s long history of educational innovation, says HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. The vision, he explained in September to a standing room–only crowd of reunion attendees in Burden Hall, is based on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) (Amberley Publishing) As a social entrepreneur and education reformer, Taylor helped establish 3,000 specialist schools and over 1,500 academies in the UK as well as founding and working as chairman of the American... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
education reform in the past, but now, as the issue becomes more polarized, we need to engage in new ways. Take, for instance, the skills gap. In our current low- unemployment environment, businesses are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
have a seemingly insatiable need for good managers, one that will only grow in the years to come. To meet that demand, business schools around the world turn out about 500,000 MBAs a year, with upwards of 150,000 of those in the United States alone. At HBS, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Paulson Speaks on China at HBS
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA 1970) told an HBS audience in May that in addition to China’s economic influence, its energy and environmental policies will have a far-reaching global impact for years to come. He also spoke of China’s need for View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Much of the movement's inspiration can be traced back to education reformers like free-market economist Milton Friedman, who argued as early as 1955 that education aid should... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
productivity, Professor Mihir Desai addressed a Senate finance committee in July 2014 and again in March 2015, offering lawmakers an action plan. “This combination of reforms has the potential of addressing significant changes in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Fall Reunions
of classes commemorating their 60th Reunion and beyond. By day, attendees got a chance to reexperience the classroom. The academic program on Friday offered more than two dozen faculty presentations, covering topics ranging from health-care View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
education reform initiative. It has been given the mandate to continue the innovation started two years ago and to blaze a new trail in undergraduate education. Chen learned the value of View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
been addressed, investors return to the markets, and the cycle continues. In light of this poor regulatory track record, we believe government-mandated reforms and more regulation alone cannot solve the current crisis of corporate... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
kids after school. Children need quality after-school activities." After completing her White House service in 1995, Hoit became managing director of Sylvan Learning Systems, a national supplemental education company. With that experience... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last 25 years. Visiting Professor... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) is the chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening public education through grants and advocacy. The foundation’s mission aims at ending... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high achievement, while their neighbors in other public schools were struggling. For the first time, he understood the stark contrast in public education between the upper-middle-class world he knew and impoverished neighborhoods. "It's a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence
Lecturer and Senior Researcher Stacey Childress for her Entrepreneurship in Education Reform course Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman for his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course Professor... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
Case Study. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001, MPA 2002) believes that has to change—and it’s the responsibility of her generation to lead the way. Ballou-Aares is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
COMMUNITY-SPECIFIC EDUCATION Online learning tailored to the skills gap of the unemployed Boston is an education mecca, but with the emergence of online education and MOOCs... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
helped Agarwal realize that he needed to pursue an MBA to broaden the impact he wants to have, possibly in the ed-tech space. “I think a floodgate is about to open where education reform is going to become... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details