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  • July 2020
  • Supplement

Sesame Workshop (B): Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In 2019, Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary while on a winning streak of social impact, innovation, and peak media and financial results. Over the past four years, CEO Jeff Dunn and his turnaround team exhibited values-driven leadership, instituted... View Details
Keywords: Social Impact; Children; Media; Television Entertainment; Education; Innovation and Invention; Change Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Education Industry
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  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Video

Tariro Goronga

  • Video

Madhav Chavan & Rukmini Banerji

Dr. Madhav Chavan, Co-Founder and President of Pratham Education Foundation, reflects on the early strategies that the organization employed in the 1990’s, when there were few NGOs working on education in India. View Details
  • August 2020
  • Teaching Note

Sesame Workshop (B): Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Teaching Note for Case No. 321-015. In 2019, Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary while on a winning streak of social impact, innovation, and peak media and financial results. Over the past four years, CEO Jeff Dunn and his turnaround team exhibited... View Details
Keywords: Social Impact; Innovation; Television; Children; Media; Television Entertainment; Education; Innovation and Invention; Change Management; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Education Industry
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  • 27 Jun 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn
  • October 2023
  • Case

Social Finance: Driving Accountability

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
Social Finance is a Boston-based nonprofit that works at the intersection of finance and policy. It raises, allocates, and manages capital to fund projects in the areas of education, early childhood development, criminal justice, and health. The case explores how... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Training
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  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

business sense? A: PNC [a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh] is an excellent example of how a business has focused on a cause that the company, its employees, and its customers deeply care about: early View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 16 Feb 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Grown and Flown: Parenting Through the High School Years

High school is a time of dynamic growth for kids who enter in 9th grade with one foot still in childhood and graduate four years later, well on their way to adulthood. But teens are not the only ones in a family who are changing. Adults, too, must learn to adapt to the... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2015
  • Video

Patricia Nettleship - Making A Difference

  • September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
  • Case

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Partnerships; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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    Lindsay N. Hyde

    Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. She teaches Avoiding Startup Failure, Launching Technology Ventures, and Startup Bootcamp. Lindsay also serves as the HBS Faculty co-chair of the View Details

    • Fall 1997
    • Article

    Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920

    By: Brian Trelstad
    “Little Machines in their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920” explores the rise and decline of the school garden movement in the United States. The paper first documents the early history of the gardens and establishes them as a national... View Details
    Keywords: School Garden Movement; United States
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Behavioral Transmission: Evidence from a Public Health Campaign in Bangladesh

    By: Reshmaan Hussam and Dayea Oh
    We examine how behavior change transmits across contexts in the setting of hand hygiene in rural Bangladesh. We randomize an edutainment intervention across classrooms to trace schoolto-home transmission in handwashing behavior and randomize the proportion of students... View Details
    Keywords: Handwashing; Interventions; Public Health; Health; Behavior; Change; Bangladesh
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    • August 2018
    • Case

    Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF

    By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Change Management; Global Range; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change
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      Ryan W. Buell

      Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details

      Keywords: banking; e-commerce industry; fast food; financial services; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; insurance industry; restaurant; retailing; service industry; transportation
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration

      Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian... View Details
      Keywords: Immigration; Gender; Developing Countries and Economies; Education; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; East Asia; Japan; South Korea; Taiwan; Singapore
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      • 07 Jan 2020
      • News

      Ivanka to CES: College Is Overrated

      • 06 Jun 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

      final wave of migration after the Vietnam War in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Under the Amerasian Homecoming Act (AHA), some 25,000 children of Vietnamese mothers and US fathers stationed there during the war immigrated to the United... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 16 Dec 2015
      • Blog Post

      Unexpected Moments at HBS

      Having spent my childhood in a small Indiana town, and having worked the past four years within family-owned companies in the calm, open spaces of Colorado, I was incredibly nervous about the culture of HBS. I had artificially painted a... View Details
      • Career Coach

      Meredith Hamilton

      African American Studies with a concentration in Anthropology. She currently lives in Boston with her partner and two children, both of whom are enrolled in Boston Public Schools.Work Experience: embark coaching (Founder & Principal), View Details
      Keywords: Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education; Education