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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991; by 2011, there were 5,275 charters nationwide, making up more than 5 percent of all public schools. In June 2009, however, the movement hit a bump. Stanford University's Center... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
A REGIONAL LEADER: Founded nearly fifty years ago with HBS’s help, INCAE looks to a bright future, building on its role and reputation as a center for business education in Latin America. Photo Courtesy Incae As the HBS Global Initiative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
will complement the skills and wisdom the fellows acquired during their “first” careers in the public and private sectors. “People who have accomplished a great deal during their careers are uniquely suited to lead and to envision... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
offices also strengthens the School’s relationships with local alumni and other leaders in business, government, and academia. HBS shares its pedagogy with learners around the world. HBX, the School’s digital education platform, has... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering women to lead
Katie Hood (MBA 2001) uses the same results-oriented business philosophy in her philanthropy work as she does in the course she teaches about educating the next generation of women leaders. A visiting lecturer and senior fellow with the... View Details
- Profile
Kwame Owusu-Kesse
discipline. I was (and still am) at the nascent stages of my leadership development and in order to capitalize on my full potential, I knew I had to receive formal training that challenged my perceptions of what the combination of business and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Milestone for HBS Alumna
Alvarez-Bjelland For the first time, the president of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) is a woman MBA from Harvard Business School. Teresita Alvarez-Bjelland (AB ’76, MBA ’79), who took office last summer, will focus her one-year term on Harvard’s role in global... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
Business needs to care about the performance of students in the public education system, from preschool through college. It is the primary source of future employees for every business. It’s also where the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Joe Badaracco
cautiously optimistic we’re heading in the right direction.” Badaracco’s latest book, Leading Quietly, explores his thesis that “the most effective leaders are rarely public heroes,” but instead are individuals with sound judgment and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Business Environment in the 21st century
authority is low and conflict is high (unlike in the past, where their authority was high and conflict low). Comments Joe Bower, “There’s a multitude of business schools that focus on the problems of running modern public corporations.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
contemporary state is in many ways antithetical to the goals of professional education itself,” writes Khurana. The excerpts that follow trace business schools from their early idealism to the more recent abandonment of their... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
junctures along the three-year road to completing this case." Students Intrigued by First-Draft Case After two years of steady work, Koehn and Helms had enough material to complete a draft case based on the public sources. Koehn... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
each recipient. This amount is a small fraction of the overall cost associated with attending HBS, which is $125,000 for a single student. “Decreasing our students’ debt load will open up more career choices in both the public and the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
of schools and libraries didn’t have a broadband connection that met their needs. Although nearly all public K–12 schools in the United States were connected to the internet by 2006, most had slow dial-up or DSL connections that students... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
campus with cutting-edge science and technology facilities, campuses for the graduate schools of public health and education, and student housing. Ways the new campus can contribute to a vibrant community, with cultural attractions,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
retired MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice. “Great schools have great leaders. If you have an ineffective leader, the school will not succeed.” How do you help principals become great leaders? That question inspired a collaboration between HBS and the... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Research Online
Our Work Time? An unusual number of time-management publications have crossed Professor Emeritus Jim Heskett's desk recently, leading him to ask: Who is responsible for the management of our time on the job? See... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
The Power of Service
South Africa and the UK. A City Year, Inc. trustee and cochair of its international committee, Reilly says the organization’s current efforts are “laser-focused on helping teachers and public schools address the high-school dropout... View Details
- Profile
Naiyya Saggi
since I felt an immediate kinship with this interpretation. Moreover, as a lawyer turned management consultant, I was looking to build a strong foundation to my business skills. An HBS education was important since it promised a quality... View Details