Publications

01 Jun 2007
News

Power Trip

closer, you’ll see that the characteristics of CEOs really have changed. And many of the factors that determine access to power also have changed. Is the importance of higher education one example? If you think about what was important... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Services; Educational Services

October 1977 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Mayfair School System, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Education; Education Industry

August 1975 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Frank Renaut College

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Higher Education; Education Industry

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May 1993
Teaching Note

Grayson University Police Force TN

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Higher Education; Law Enforcement; Education Industry

Profile

Tim Nicolette

Where are you now and what are you doing? I’m the president of UP Education Network in Boston. We serve as a third party administrator for our district clients, charged with the responsibility for turning around failed or failing schools.... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit; Nonprofit / Government

May 2010
Teaching Note

Yale School of Management (TN)

By: Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin

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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

February 2008 (Revised February 2008)
Case

Stanford Graduate School of Business

By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In fall 2007, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) adopted a new curriculum that it heralded as a "revolutionary change in management education." The new approach aimed at increasing the level and quality of student academic engagement. This case describes the... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses; Globalization; Leadership Development; Cognition and Thinking; Adaptation; Education Industry; California

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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

June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Case

Joel Klein and Leadership in the NYC Public Schools

By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie, Richard Arum and Abby Larson

Reviews the work of the New York City School Chancellor Joel Klein and his attempt to create a Leadership Academy in order to better train principals to lead New York City public schools. Assesses what leadership skills and strategies are necessary for Klein to create... View Details

Keywords: Education; Training; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)

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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