Education Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2025
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Constitutional Fiction: John Miller & The Legitimacy of Family Constitutions

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

John Miller sat reviewing his family’s Constitution, grappling with how best to implement and enforce its provisions. Designed to prevent ambiguity in governance, the Family Constitution set out core values and guidelines to promote harmony and cohesion among family... View Details

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Educators

01 Jun 2023
HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

the success of the Jordan brand. He discusses how education can break the street-to-jail cycle and why business leaders should give formerly incarcerated people a second chance. Crushed to see his dream job evaporate and fearing that no... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories

October 2009 (Revised October 2010)
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Cosan: Thinking Outside the Barrel

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Noel Maurer and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

The Cosan case introduces students and executive education participants to political economy and business strategy in the biofuels industry. Cosan, based in Brazil, is the largest grower and processor of sugarcane in the world and the largest sugar and ethanol producer... View Details

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Business and Government Relations; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil

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11 Apr 2024
In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

scenarios are: A more stringent cap on immigration regardless of education and skills. A tougher approach on undocumented immigration, with enhanced border security and possibly a tougher limit on the number of unskilled immigrants, but a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

improvement-oriented behaviors: 1) blockages to prevent workarounds, 2) a support person to assist with problem-solving, and 3) education portraying operational failures as "waste" to be removed from the system. Using laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

Summing Up This month's exchange of ideas regarding U.S. healthcare reform ranged far and wide. Some of us were interested primarily in the issue of cost escalation and how to contain it. Others addressed issues of quality. For still... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

on entrepreneurship in education reform and cofounded the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP) in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(93) Budgets and Budgeting (4) Buildings and Facilities (4) Business Conglomerates (1) Business Cycles (6) Business Divisions (7) Business Earnings (5) Business Education (24) Business Exit or Shutdown (1) Business Growth and Maturation... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

as depicted by conventional history. Labor reformers argued that principles of equity must supplement these categories of class legislation and contract freedom. This essay explores how legal doctrine helped both sides of the anti-truck... View Details

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

capital labor pool, Hispanics have been around 2%, and African Americans have been less than 1%. This is despite the fact that all three groups have much higher representation in education programs that lead to careers in these sectors as... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this as evidence of investor belief of policy irreversibility, where reforms may reach a stage beyond which future regimes have difficulty reversing those policies. Further analysis... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

incentive or an educational campaign,” says Beshears. “But we were surprised to see the extent to which it is true.” According to behavioral scientists, nudges are dollar for dollar a hugely cost-effective way of causing people to change... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

at improving health care value. 28 June 2019 Media Mention White House Addressing Laws that Impede Value-Based Health Care White House Addressing Laws that Impede Value-Based Health Care by Rachel Roubein, Politico INSIDE THURSDAY's WHITE HOUSE MEETING ON REGULARATORY... View Details

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Leadership - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Leadership 0ms Robert S. Huckman Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty Chair Professor Huckman teaches the second-year course in Operations Strategy and has taught HBS Executive Education programs and the... View Details

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

kinds of changes he studies have taken place over long periods of time. And they run much deeper than such things as short-term educational reform or job retraining. Why is it, then, that there is so much... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

productive relationships. However, every year, a few thousand customers file new arbitration cases with Finra, the US brokerage industry’s regulatory organization, alleging everything from negligence to fraud. “Consumers should monitor their investments and never... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2023 Goldsmith Fellows

strategy to help improve student outcomes in Washington state, and supported the postsecondary education team to determine how technology can boost college advisors’ productivity and improve student outcomes at lower resourced... View Details

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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

explore the state of education in the mid-19th century and the vision of public education proposed by educational reformer Horace Mann, the first... View Details

Keywords: April White

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