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  • 25 Aug 2021
  • News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools... 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
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  • 15 Nov 2010
  • News

Harvard Business School Faculty on General Motors IPO

  • 2012
  • Chapter

Pursuing Public Value: Frameworks for Strategic Analysis and Action

By: Herman B. Leonard and Mark H. Moore
Features Harvard Kennedy School scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task—enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; National Security; Complexity; Performance Improvement; United States
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  • 08 Nov 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Back to School

passion. “Work is one arena where passions can be pursued but far from the only one. There’s a lot of research showing that people who pursue their passion outside work actually end up being more satisfied with their jobs.” (Jachimowicz’s passion? Salsa dancing.) We’re... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 28 Aug 2024
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

  • Web

The Path from Public Service to HBS – A less unlikely road than I once thought | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

  • 23 Jun 2015
  • News

Governance reforms add significance to being a public company

  • January 2003 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

KIPP National, 1999 (A): Designing a School Network

Covers the origin, evolution, and nature of the KIPP Academies, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Middle School Education; Expansion; Education Industry; Houston
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  • 04 Oct 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Tania Babina, Columbia Business School

  • 19 May 2016
  • Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

1. Learning occurs both inside and outside of the classroom I realized after my first semester that business school provides much more than academic classroom learning. Learning takes place in nearly every aspect of life at HBS.  The... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li
The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details
Keywords: Price; Religion; Entrepreneurship; Education
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  • 27 Mar 2012
  • News

One School at a Time

possible going forward, Frock suggests. In addition, the school’s first academic head is working with area public schools to implement its science curriculum. “Education changes one View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • April 2012
  • Article

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in... View Details
Keywords: Perspective; Growth and Development; Middle School Education; Developing Countries and Economies; Data and Data Sets; Geographic Location; Public Administration Industry; Brazil; Russia; India; China
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  • 08 Jun 2017
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program

  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 21 Oct 2021
  • News

5 Minutes With ... Mitchell Weiss of Harvard Business School

  • 14 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

Harvard Business School (HBS) has announced the 2023-2024 cohort of Blavatnik Fellows. Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship was launched in 2013 as part of a gift to Harvard... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Back to School

Simmons to join his team to take on another challenge: ensuring that every US public school opens its door to full-time, in-person instruction this fall. What was it like working in Governor Lamont’s office... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna