Publications

March 1976 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Somerstown Public Schools (A), Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

September 1975 (Revised May 1993)
Exercise

Mayfair School System

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

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January 2000
Case

Citizen Schools (B)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Sarah Patricia Vickers-Willis

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

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01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

(AASU) conference was renamed in remembrance of H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33), a leader in industry and a pioneer in business education honored for his role as a mentor to generations of African Americans.... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Educational Services; Educational Services

February 2007
Supplement

Supplement to InfoVision (A): Technology Transfer at Georgia Tech

Keywords: Information Technology; Higher Education; Engineering; Education Industry; Atlanta

01 Sep 2003
News

Globalization Revisited

Levitt predicted pervasive standardization, Ghemawat’s paper, “Global Product Standardization? A Case Study and a Model,” shows current reality to be otherwise. Ghemawat has found that a number of industries that seem ripe for strategies... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Services; Educational Services

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

07 Mar 2017
News

From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World

general director. With a lengthy career in industry and politics as well as academia, Giscard D’Estaing is a former mayor and member of the French Parliament and is chairman of the Committee for a World Parliament. He is also honorary... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

March 2021 (Revised June 2022)
Case

James Bryant Conant: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun

This case traces the rise of James Conant from a working-class neighborhood in Boston to president of Harvard University. The case describes how Conant, as a young man interested in chemistry and physics, embarks on studies to build his academic credentials and the... View Details

Keywords: Education; Science; Higher Education; Mission and Purpose; Research; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Work-Life Balance; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry; Boston

January 2005
Case

Launching the Bronx Lab School

By: Stacey M. Childress

Examines the start-up process of a new, small high school inside the New York City public school system, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Covers the entrepreneurial process, the specific performance challenges in public high schools in the... View Details

Keywords: Secondary Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry

March 2010
Teaching Note

Xi'an International University: The Growth of Private Universities in China (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for 309074. View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Competition; Growth Management; Governance Controls; For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Education Industry; China

2017
Supplement

Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice

By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra

The (B) case provides an update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align... View Details

Keywords: Charter Schools; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Teaching; Talent And Talent Management; Innovation; Education; Early Childhood Education; Middle School Education; Organizational Structure; Performance Consistency; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry

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1991
Chapter

Future Graduate Study and Academic Careers

By: J. R. Green

Keywords: Higher Education; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry

25 Jul 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

July 2011
Supplement

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

By: Dorothy Leonard

Professor Gupta has imposed two new policies on his class, midway through the term: 1) No use of Internet to locate additional information on the company in the case; 2) an increase in the percentage of grades attributed to class participation. He meets with rebellion... View Details

Keywords: Teaching; Learning; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Change; Education Industry

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

self-awareness. It’s a bold endeavor rooted in HBS’s long history of educational innovation, says HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. The vision, he explained in September to a standing room–only crowd of reunion attendees in Burden Hall, is based on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Educational Services; Educational Services

December 1996 (Revised June 1997)
Case

Trinity College (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias

Trinity College was an elite, private, liberal-arts college of some 1,800 students located in Hartford, CT. When Tom Gerety was chosen as Trinity's 17th president in 1989, he pledged to stay for ten years. Now less than five years at the job, Gerety announced he was... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Crisis Management; Management Succession; Planning; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Connecticut