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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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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

2022
Chapter

Decarbonizing Academia's Flyout Culture

By: Nicholas Poggioli and Andrew J. Hoffman

Flight is technologically and culturally central to academic life. Academia's flyout culture is built on a set of shared beliefs and values about the importance of flying to being an academic. But flight also generates a large proportion of academia’s carbon emissions,... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Air Transportation; Values and Beliefs; Environmental Sustainability; Higher Education; Education Industry

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June 2011
Case

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joe Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 2

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Keywords: Leadership; Transformation; Public Sector; Education; Education Industry; New York (city, NY)

01 Mar 2009
News

Health Care a Top Priority at HBS

Berkeley, and who has worked in the health-care industry for fifteen years, explains why health care is important to HBS. “It’s 17 percent of the U.S. economy and growing. As an industry, it’s underperforming so it requires new thinking... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

August 1981
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (B)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

A review of the activities following the expose of the cheating incident at West Point and leading up to the Secretary of the Army's decision on the situation. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

difficult accounting problems. "One student could be in Tokyo, another in Santiago, and another could be in Johannesburg," says Narayanan, "We might give them some financials from an unidentified industry and have them... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

01 Jun 2014
News

FIELD 2 in Accra

Tim Leach (MBA 2015) had backpacked in Africa before, so he was somewhat prepared for the heat, noise, traffic, dust, and disorientation he and his FIELD 2 team experienced in early January, when they emerged from the airport and began their week-long assignment in... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

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 2005
Supplement

Ninth House: e-Learning Software (B)

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Learning; Software; Education Industry; Education Industry

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01 Dec 2004
News

Getting Personal

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative consumer-marketing strategies, she is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Services; Educational Services

March 2008 (Revised December 2008)
Case

KIPP 2007: Implementing a Smart Growth Strategy

By: Stacey M. Childress and Maura Lynn Marino

After opening 60 schools in 8 years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated entity led by a principal who was selected and trained by the... View Details

Keywords: Education; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States

September 2002
Case

Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (B): The Performance Agenda

Describes the implementation in Seattle Public Schools, under the direction of Superintendent Joseph Olchefske, of a systemwide standards and accountability scheme, known as the Performance Agenda. The Performance Agenda set academic standards for students and defined... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry; Seattle

May 2010
Case

CEIBS: A Global Business School Made in China

By: John A. Quelch

In 2009, just 15 years after it was founded, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has achieved the remarkable 8th position in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings. The case describes the short history of the school and the reasons for its success.... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Quality; Business History; Competitive Advantage; Business Education; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; China

2020
Chapter

The International Origins and Global Aspirations of Chinese Universities: Along the New Silk Road

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: Global; Higher Education; Global Range; Education Industry; China; Europe

2011
Article

Fundamental Freedom or Fringe Benefit?: Rice University and the Evolution of Academic Tenure, 1935-1963

In 1935, fewer than half of a sample of seventy-eight prominent universities employed formal tenure policies, but by 1973 almost 100 percent had instituted tenure. The intervening years generated many of the policies that still govern practices at American... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Compensation and Benefits; Education Industry