Publications

December 2016
Case

SEAS in 2016

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Kerry Herman

The case explores opportunities and challenges facing the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as it 1) grapples with rapid undergraduate enrollment growth and its smaller scale relative to other top engineering schools and 2) prepares to move two-thirds... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Engineering; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Change Management; Education Industry; United States

May 2010
Teaching Note

Yale School of Management (TN)

By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin

Teaching Note for [308011]. View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leadership Development; Learning; Perspective; Transformation; Business Education; Education Industry

July 2010 (Revised August 2012)
Case

Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

A relatively inexperienced professor struggles with managing a case discussion in a class based on numeric analysis. The class is lethargic and time is tight; she considers both a number of possible reasons for their disinterest and different teaching strategies to... View Details

Keywords: Education; Teaching; Strategy; Communication Strategy; Training; Leadership Style; Education Industry

April 2008
Supplement

The Historical Development of the Harvard Business School (B)

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Growth and Development; Higher Education; History; Education Industry

October 2007 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Leader(ship) Development

By: Scott A. Snook

Designed for use in the first year of an MBA program, can be included within a core course on leadership or used more broadly to orient students to their upcoming experience while in school. Offers a series of robust conceptual models to help students frame their... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Framework; Business Education; Education Industry

01 Sep 2012
News

Joint Venture

key players in the process. At HBS, it has always been true that, from their field-based academic research and consulting, faculty constantly seek knowledge from practitioners. In addition, Executive Education programs bring business... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

May 1993
Teaching Note

Grayson University Police Force TN

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Higher Education; Law Enforcement; Education Industry

November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
Supplement

Jody Leleck at Broad Acres (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Andrew Goldin

Explores the results of Jody Leleck's efforts to turn around underperforming Broad Acres Middle School. View Details

Keywords: Middle School Education; Performance Improvement; Education Industry

October 1977 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Mayfair School System, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

July 2011 (Revised December 2015)
Case

Assistant Professor Gyan Gupta and the Wet Noodle Class (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Susan S. Harmeling

Professor Gupta faces three major problems in teaching cases: 1) his students, accustomed to lectures, don't know how to conduct a case discussion; 2) the students are using the Internet to discover the outcome of managerial dilemmas posed in the case; 3) he wants to... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Teaching; Cases; Outcome or Result; Internet and the Web; Theory; Education Industry

2018
Chapter

Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?

By: William C. Kirby

Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.... View Details

Keywords: Asia; China; Emerging Country; Students; Education; Higher Education; Globalization; International Relations; History; Society; Education Industry; Asia; China; United States

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