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31 Mar 2017
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Turning Teachers into Leaders

Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design and accelerate policies and... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

and the Middle East—and we've watched the number of global cases written rise to more than 50 percent in 2012–2013. Beyond that, we have begun offering Executive Education programs in locations beyond Boston, and the FIELD [Field... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Educational Services; Educational Services

December 2016
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Public Mission, Private Funding: The University of California, Berkeley

By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby

UC Berkley, long known as one of the leading public universities in both the U.S. and the world, has seen turbulent times recently. While student enrollment and costs have increased steadily in recent years, the school, which has been fiercely proud of its public... View Details

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2015
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Academic Engagement in Public and Political Discourse: Proceedings of the Michigan Meeting, May 2015

By: Andrew J. Hoffman, Kirsti Ashworth, Chase Dwelle, Peter Goldberg, Andrew Henderson, Louis Merlin, Yulia Muzyrya, Norma-Jean Simon, Veronica Taylor, Corinne Weisheit and Sarah Wilson

What is the role of the academic scholar within the discussions of the global challenges that are relevant to society, such as sustainability, health care, gun control, fiscal policy, and international affairs? How do scholars engage in a world in which knowledge is... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Social Issues; Knowledge Sharing; Communication Strategy

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17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

so higher education to me really represented this promise of economic mobility and something that I really clung to as I was getting a little bit older into my high school years and thinking about what was... View Details

February 2011
Case

Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman and Evan W. Richardson

In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg, the leading online college textbook rental company, is scaling rapidly. The case recounts Chegg's history from its origins as a distant competitor to Craigslist in college classified listings through a pivot into textbook... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Books; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Service Operations; Renting or Rental; Online Technology; Education Industry; Education Industry; California

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1989
Article

Paying for College After 2000: What Can We Do for the Access-Endangered?

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Personal Finance; Spending; Higher Education

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16 Sep 2013
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Canada’s Native Son

smarter about how we produce and distribute food globally." It's one of the issues that Favel has made a priority for his new position. The other is the education of the First Nations people. "Saskatchewan has a View Details

Keywords: First Nations; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books

show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

March 2022 (Revised March 2022)
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Transformation at Loyola New Orleans (A)

By: David Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti

In August of 2018, Tania Tetlow is inaugurated as President of Loyola University New Orleans, in the midst of turmoil. Prior to her start, the university was given a final warning to land a balanced budget by year's end by its accreditors or risk facing probation. It... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Change Management; Trust; Transformation; New Orleans

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01 Sep 2013
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HBS's Unique Economic Model

Rick Melnick Harvard Business School is renowned for educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Less well known is the economic model that enables HBS to do this—model that is unique in higher... View Details

Keywords: Melnick, Richard; Educational Services; Educational Services

June 1981 (Revised February 1983)
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West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Presents a review of published data on the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. Written from the perspective of the Academy Superintendent, it raises issues of ethics, organizational change and action planning in the face of conflicting stakeholder interests. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Higher Education; Ethics; Government Administration; Conflict and Resolution; Planning; Education Industry; Education Industry

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01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

students, Khan wants parents to feel “Oh, I can do this. This isn’t impossible.” Today, Khan Academy usage is up about 250 percent, student and teacher registration rates are six times higher than normal, and parent registrations are 20... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

inner workings of his own employer. “Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals” Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education chronicles Anteby's journey as a junior faculty member... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip

closer, you’ll see that the characteristics of CEOs really have changed. And many of the factors that determine access to power also have changed. Is the importance of higher education one example? If you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Services; Educational Services

2023
White Paper

Delivering on the Degree: The College to Jobs Playbook

By: David Deming, Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Kerry McKittrick, Ali Epstein and Emma Catalfamo

Keywords: Job Search; Personal Development and Career; Higher Education; Employment

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31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

cultural norms, et cetera. And one of the biggest things that comes to mind, to your question of what's the biggest barrier there, it's disentangling the types of knowledge that have to get conveyed to a learner. Institutions of higher... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers

for a successful educational experience in later years. And second, there is a new “culture of completion” in higher education, in which institutions are focusing on improving graduation rates for all... View Details

Keywords: Amy McIntosh (MBA 1984) , associate vice chancellor for academic strategy, The City University of New York

June 2021
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Linda Oubré at Whittier College

By: Debora L. Spar and Haley P. Brown

The case follows President Linda Oubré (HBS MBA Class of 1984) as she seeks to move Whittier College towards a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus.
In 2020, the student body of Whittier, a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles County,... View Details