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February 2014
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Guess

We present the results of an experiment that explores whether women are less willing than men to guess on multiple-choice tests. Our test consists of practice questions from SAT II subject tests; we vary whether a penalty is imposed for a wrong answer and the salience... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Decision Making; Microeconomic Behavior; Education Systems; Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Economics

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02 Jul 2009
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Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education

SchoolsKevin Johnson, CEO & President, St HOPE Public SchoolsWendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach for AmericaMichelle Rhee, Chancellor, Washington DC Public Schools A national crisis exists in public education. The root causes include unaccountable teachers,... View Details

Keywords: Education

August 2021
Article

Business Education as If People and the Planet Really Matter

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Mounting concern over capitalism’s inability to address systemic challenges in our natural world (i.e. climate change) and social world (i.e. income inequality) is prompting reexamination of capitalism within business groups. This article argues that a concurrent... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Business Education; Transformation

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01 Dec 2003
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For Education Reform, PELP Is on the Way

school systems that have achieved a high level of excellence overall.” To address this situation, HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education have launched a three-year joint venture with nine urban... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Programs Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) Summer Institute JUL 7-11, 2025 | HBS Campus Intended for teams of eight participants, including district office personnel, school principals, and regional supervisors who are... View Details

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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

In 2003, HBS launched an MBA elective course focused on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of... View Details

July 1999
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Developing a Teaching Case (B): Virtualis Systems

By: Jay O. Light and Michael J. Roberts

Presents a first draft of the case, based upon an interview with the case protagonist shown in the video. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Business Education

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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

deliver pattern-breaking change in K-12 schools and higher educational institutions. The cases will examine protagonists working within established educational systems as well... View Details

April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
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Western Governors University: 10x Vision

By: William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma

Western Governors University (WGU) was a nonprofit institution of higher education whose online learning model served more than 100,000 students in 2019 and was scaling rapidly. President Scott Pulsipher wanted to expand WGU’s reach to millions more with a plan called... View Details

Keywords: Online Education; Enrollment; Scaling; Higher Education; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States

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2013
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Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education

By: Michel Anteby

Corporate accountability is never far from the front page and Harvard Business School trains many future business leaders. But how does HBS formally and informally ensure its members embrace proper business standards? Relying on his faculty experience, Michel Anteby... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Business Education; Higher Education; Education; Education Industry; United States

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06 Feb 2012
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Health Care: 8 Ways Baby Boomers Are Transforming The System

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) Course Number 1789 Professor Tatiana Sandino Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits NOTE: Because there is considerable overlap between this course (SSV, #1789) and the spring course Strategy... View Details

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery... View Details

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

There I met with a representative from Education Pioneers, an organization that places MBAs into the education sector at public or charter school systems, departments of education, ed-tech companies, or... View Details

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

noticed that the students who did have a large number of opportunities available to them sometimes felt overwhelmed with information and options. “I became interested in what is the best way to make the education View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Innovation in Health Care Education: A Call to Action

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Vasant Kumar, Kevin Schulman and Karen Staman

Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for innovative solutions, and yet, according to our content analysis of top... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Education; Education; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education Industry; Education Industry

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change - Course Catalog

on non-profit boards, as a major donor, or in consulting roles. Educational Objectives Enhance your ability to critically analyze social enterprises and understand how to lead and scale them effectively. Learn how to design and implement... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Push the system to see where it breaks

Anthony Priest (MBA 1996), program specialist at Washington, DC Public Schools, talks about his move from teaching to working to improve the school system. “The idea is to understand the education system,” he says, “and the first thing... View Details

07 Dec 2015
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Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers

Andrew Kendall (MBA 1988) is on a mission to change the way New England eats. As executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, he is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food View Details