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- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
they want to be.” A few years ago, Burke was asked by Wisconsin’s governor and Milwaukee’s mayor to analyze the finances of the Milwaukee Public Schools. About the same time, she got involved in an initiative that helps students who are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Platforms and Collaborations
point in the video, thereby creating a presentation to which students can log on and interact with together outside of class. Technological innovations offer the potential for online coursework — even now, new entrants in the MBA Program take online courses in... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
class's education was enhanced by the fact that "our classmates are a refreshingly down-to-earth group of people who contributed to all of our learning in meaningful ways." The influence of that dynamic, Senor noted, is at once pervasive... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having to push her idea of promoting social and environmental value... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
economist Burt Malkiel (MBA 1955), former chair of the Yale endowment Charley Ellis (MBA 1963), and former head of IBM’s investment funds Jay Vivian (MBA 1978) to serve on the Rebalance Investment Committee. The company has also invested in View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
tradeoffs, and how her current role compares with her career expectations when she graduated from HBS. “I’m the CEO of the Council for Economic Education. We’re a national not-for-profit that teaches little kids about the real world through lessons in personal View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
EL-HAGE: Generous alumni support has helped make HBS a “great institution.” Seven years ago, Nabil El-Hage took a one-semester sabbatical from his high-pressure day job to teach two finance courses at HBS. He enjoyed the experience so... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
Airlines and a senior advisor at Goldman Sachs, “the education is absolutely fantastic—the capacities to analyze, to understand finance and marketing and human resources, and that spirit of leadership. It’s... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
were the results of two foundation-sponsored studies of management education in the 1950's that argued for greater emphasis on the development of measures and exploration of theories by means of quantitative analyses of various phenomena... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 2014
- Working Paper
Conflicts of College Conference Realignment: Pursuing Revenue, Preserving Tradition, and Assessing the Future
By: Vadim Kogan and Stephen A. Greyser
Over the past two years, conference realignment has taken a front seat in the college sports landscape. Economic incentives were too attractive to overlook for some universities. College football programs across the country have a lot at stake, because for many,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Higher Education; Sports; Revenue; Emotions; Education Industry; Education Industry
Kogan, Vadim, and Stephen A. Greyser. "Conflicts of College Conference Realignment: Pursuing Revenue, Preserving Tradition, and Assessing the Future." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-073, February 2014.
- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
Garrett are based in New York City, where he is a Managing Director and Head of Global Private Equity at Morgan Stanley and she is a professional photographer. Both are active with a range of civic, cultural, and educational... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Harvard Management’s El-Erian Steps Down
Mohamed El-Erian, the president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC) and a member of the HBS faculty, announced in September that he would step down from HMC at the end of this year and return to California and his former firm, Pacific Investment Management... View Details
- January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Fossil Fuel Divestment (Abridged)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick
The president of Harvard University is facing growing pressure from students, alumni, and other climate change activists that are urging the university to divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies. The case summarizes the arguments for and... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; Higher Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Public Opinion; Ethics; Education Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Sarah Gulick. "Fossil Fuel Divestment." Harvard Business School Case 620-093, January 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- 06 Jun 2013
- News
Exploring the American Dream: From Pakistan to HBS
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- September 2021
- Case
Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World
By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic... View Details
Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
Bertini, Marco, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World." Harvard Business School Case 522-003, September 2021.