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- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
Business School professors Anat Keinan, Mukti Khaire, and Michael I. Norton deconstruct ground grasshoppers, upscale Peruvian cuisine, and other surprising elements that create the perfect culinary... View Details
- autumn 1991
- Article
The Topic of Quality in Business School Education and Research
By: Robert S. Kaplan
- 2019
- Article
Reflections on 25 Years of Building Social Enterprise Education
By: James E. Austin and V. Kasturi Rangan
Purpose—This paper aims to reflect on 25 years of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Harvard Business School, examining the processes and thinking involved at key stages of this pioneering Initiative’s implementation and... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise Initiative; Harvard Business School; Social Enterprise; Education; Programs
Austin, James E., and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Reflections on 25 Years of Building Social Enterprise Education." Social Enterprise Journal 15, no. 1 (2019): 2–21.
- March 2020
- Module Note
Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age
By: Feng Zhu
Although some digital platforms are highly successful, most firms today are still traditional product- or service-based firms. To take advantage of the opportunities created by platform business models, traditional firms can work with existing platforms to become their... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Platform Businesses; Platform Disruption; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Transformation; Digital Platforms
Zhu, Feng. "Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-109, March 2020.
- 2020
- Book
Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead
Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? Business—not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Business And Society; Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
Bower, Joseph L., Dutch Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine. Capitalism at Risk: How Business Can Lead. Updated and expanded ed. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- February 7, 2023
- Editorial
Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations: They Must Focus on Management as a Calling
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Many management students today are concerned about the mounting threats of climate change, income inequality, health care, and more. They increasingly see business as a place to make a difference in the world. Andrew Hoffman writes that business schools are slow to... View Details
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Schools are Ignoring Students’ Changing Aspirations: They Must Focus on Management as a Calling." LSE Business Review (February 7, 2023).
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum Personal Selling and Sales Force Management
Personal selling is the primary (and sometimes the only) form of marketing activity for many firms, especially in a business-to-business context. The course focuses on the tactical component of managing a salesforce and on the strategic element of linking sales... View Details
- February 2004
- Case
Aspire Public Schools
Set in the fall of 2003, covers managerial challenges facing the CEO and COO of Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management company. In operation since 1999 and funded by prominent national foundations and venture philanthropies, Aspire operates 10... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry; California
Leschly, Stig. "Aspire Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 804-114, February 2004.
- February 2023
- Case
Success Academy Charter Schools
By: Robin Greenwood, Joshua D. Coval, Denise Han, Ruth Page and Dave Habeeb
This stand-alone multimedia case follows the story of Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy, a network of high-performing charter schools in New York City. As a New York City councilor between 1999 and 2006, Moskowitz became frustrated over the inertia and dysfunction in... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Performance Effectiveness; Equality and Inequality; Private Sector; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)
Greenwood, Robin, Joshua D. Coval, Denise Han, Ruth Page, and Dave Habeeb. "Success Academy Charter Schools." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 222-707, February 2023.
- April 14, 2015
- Article
What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration from HBX
Hammond, Janice H., V.G. Narayanan, and Bharat Anand. "What Harvard Business School Has Learned About Online Collaboration from HBX." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 14, 2015).
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said Harvard Business School Associate Professor of Business Administration Karim R. Lakhani. "The 2016 Faculty Research Symposium also looked ahead to major... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?
By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools... View Details
Keywords: General Management; K-12; Charter Schools; Public Schools; Edtech; Education; Information Technology; Management; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Education Industry; Boston
Kim, John J-H, and Daniel Goldberg. "Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?" Harvard Business School Case 316-138, January 2016. (Revised November 2018.)
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the... View Details
- May 9, 2024
- Article
Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Business schools have lost their way. Students are schooled in a system that, having raised the standard of living for millions of people over centuries, is now facing systemic failures in both the environmental and social domains—failures that market forces cause and,... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Business And Society; Climate Change; Equality and Inequality; Environmental Sustainability; Business Education
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It." Inspiring Minds (May 9, 2024).
- 23 Apr 2012
- Keynote Speech
Tragedy & Genius: My Speech to Graduating Harvard Business School Students
By: Deepak Malhotra
Malhotra, Deepak. "Tragedy & Genius: My Speech to Graduating Harvard Business School Students." Harvard Business School, April 23, 2012.
- June 2007
- Book Review
Book review of Managing Elites: Professional Socialization in Law and Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana
Khurana, Rakesh. "Book review of Managing Elites: Professional Socialization in Law and Business Schools." Contemporary Sociology 36, no. 2 (June 2007).
- November 1998 (Revised July 1999)
- Background Note
Business as Stakeholder in Public Education: A History of Business Efforts to Improve Public Schools in the United States
Explores seven roles businesses and business leaders have played with respect to U.S. public education reform historically and today: "owners" helping set the agenda; "investors" donating funds; "customers" hiring graduates; "experts" contributing management know-how;... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Education; Performance Improvement; Business and Community Relations; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Business as Stakeholder in Public Education: A History of Business Efforts to Improve Public Schools in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 399-062, November 1998. (Revised July 1999.)
- January 2017
- Case
Flatiron School
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Halah AlQahtani
In late 2016, the founders of Flatiron School, a startup offering 12-week coding bootcamps, are formulating their growth strategy. Their new online-only program has matched the excellent job placement results for their in-person bootcamps. Should Flatiron shift... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Start-ups; Growth Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Diversification; Expansion; Education Industry; United States
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Halah AlQahtani. "Flatiron School." Harvard Business School Case 817-114, January 2017.
- 1979
- Book
Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School
By: Robert B. Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin
Stobaugh, Robert B. and Daniel Yergin, eds. Energy Future: Report of the Energy Project at the Harvard Business School. New York: Random House, 1979. (1980, Ballantine Books; 1983, Vintage Books; also published in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish; Bestseller list of NYT, Time Magazine, Publishers Weekly; for a report on this book, see front page NYT, July 12, 1979.)
- May 1995
- Teaching Note
Harvard Business School (Strategies from Inception Through World War II) The TN
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven