Publications

01 Dec 2004
News

GLF Showcases London

forum, titled “New Barriers and New Opportunities: Leading in an Uncertain World,” is shaping up to be a truly remarkable event. Professor Nancy Koehn, the forum’s faculty chair, has done an outstanding job of organizing a lineup of HBS faculty and View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Services; Educational Services

September 2002
Case

Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002 (C2): Race, Class, and School Choice

Presents the decision by the Federal Court of Appeals for the ninth Circuit in the spring of 2002 to invalidate Seattle's use of race as a factor in allocating space in Seattle's oversubscribed schools. Summarizes the posture and content of the litigation, including... View Details

Keywords: Management; Leadership; Income; Social Entrepreneurship; Race; Lawsuits and Litigation; Education; Education Industry; Seattle

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

February 2011
Case

Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman and Evan W. Richardson

In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg, the leading online college textbook rental company, is scaling rapidly. The case recounts Chegg's history from its origins as a distant competitor to Craigslist in college classified listings through a pivot into textbook... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Books; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Service Operations; Renting or Rental; Online Technology; Education Industry; Education Industry; California

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)

“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2006
News

Academic Cross-Pollination

to encourage the development of new technologies that focus on clean, renewable, or efficient energy resources. One of our teams developed last year’s winning idea: a polymer-producing bacteria that eats away at microbial scale formation inside View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2015
News

Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check

Batten Hall hive classrooms. “Strategic Brew” was created over a two years by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration, and Gastón Llanes, an associate professor at Catholic University of Chile’s School of Management, with... View Details

June 1981 (Revised February 1983)
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (A)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Presents a review of published data on the 1976 cheating scandal at West Point. Written from the perspective of the Academy Superintendent, it raises issues of ethics, organizational change and action planning in the face of conflicting stakeholder interests. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Higher Education; Ethics; Government Administration; Conflict and Resolution; Planning; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

humanity discovered how to use fire,” says Enriquez’s colleague, HBS associate professor Jonathan West. West, who had been researching the semiconductor industry for some ten years, came to the life sciences field rather recently.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Jan 2011
News

Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

services industry that includes supermarket chains, shopping malls, wind energy, and banks. Both his son, Murat (MBA 2003), and daughter, Aysecan (who holds an MBA from Stanford), work closely with him. "I'm still a hands-on manager of my... View Details

January 2007 (Revised August 2007)
Case

Fulton County School System: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Monica Nah Lee

Illustrates the adaptation and implementation of a private sector management tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to a public school district. As part of a continuous improvement initiative, the Director of Planning and Policy facilitates the development of a strategy map and... View Details

Keywords: Education; Governance; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Education Industry

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021... View Details

October 2008
Supplement

The Hertz Corporation (A) Teaching Note Courseware

By: Timothy A. Luehrman

Keywords: Teaching; Information; Education; Transportation Industry

17 Dec 2015
News

Conducting Research That Influences Practice

is a fourth-year student in Marketing, one of eight doctoral programs offered by HBS. In addition to her research on consumer empowerment, she is pursuing coursework that includes the required Business Education of Scholars and Teachers... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Research Online

consumers prefer single songs over music “bundles.” The result? It is time for the industry to rethink its products and prices, writes Associate Professor Anita Elberse. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6312.html. India Transformed? Insights... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

July 2016 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Code.org

By: John J-H Kim, Lauren Barley and Allison M. Ciechanover

The case explores Hadi Partovi’s mission to provide every K-12 student in the United States the opportunity to learn computer science. Students can assess how Partovi transformed his passion into an organization that reached millions around the globe through the launch... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Education; Education Industry; United States