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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders

By: Danielle Li
The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate changes in pay. Since effective school leaders likely have significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Education; North Carolina
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  • December 2013 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Atlanta Schools: Measures to Improve Performance

By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
The widespread cheating scandal that rocked the Atlanta public school system in 2010 and 2011 illustrates how high-stakes performance pressure, without sufficient risk controls, can drive dangerous behavior. After becoming superintendent of the low-income and... View Details
Keywords: Atlanta; Test; Testing; Standardized Test; Standardized Testing; No Child Left Behind; NCLB; Cheating; Performance Pressure; Measurement; Incentives; Atlanta Public Schools; Management; Leadership; Ethics; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Risk Management; Education; Education Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
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  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

accountability by analyzing how the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in North Carolina affected principal mobility across North... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Incentives and Education

(with Bob Slonim and Eric Bettinger)
No Child Left Behind has created an incentive system for schools to increase test scores as well as attendance figures.... View Details
  • December 2005 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

SchoolNet: Pursuing Opportunity beyond Federal Mandates

Settling into his seat on the train bound for New York, CEO Jonathan Harber reflected on the evolution of SchoolNet's position in the educational technology market and its important relationship with Philadelphia. Specifically, how could it transition from a project to... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Education; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Philadelphia
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  • 2009
  • Book

Let Me Explain: Eugene G. Fubini's Life in Defense of America

By: David G. Fubini
There is no necessary relationship between fame and power, and great influence is often wielded in willful obscurity. So it was with the irascible, indomitable Eugene Fubini. A physics prodigy who fled Italy when the fascists came to power, his searing intelligence and... View Details
Keywords: Biography; Personal Development and Career; National Security; United States
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  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

groups, but not large blocks. If a large corporate wishes to pursue such a goal, it is more prudent to execute it with a small team.” In a related comment, Ashok Jainn stated, “Age is no bar Super stretch goals, when they’re not handed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

starts a premium vodka business, bringing in his cousin at an early stage, but with no initial discussion of the eventual split of equity or managerial control between the two. The article offers each man's case for his ownership stake in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

need their help on the way down. Ruthlessness in pursuit of success might work for a while. But when there is the merest hint of a problem, a history of callous, cold-blooded, critical behavior means that there is no one View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 06 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

Pablo Picasso's legacy is a curious one in that he composed and left behind some 70,000 works of art, but never did draft a will. Thus, the divvying up of his assets has been a charged and factious exercise... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

causes us to buy a product, not what's correlated with it. We realized that the causal mechanism behind a purchase is, 'Oh, I've got a job to be done.' And it turns out that it's really effective in allowing a company to build products... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

non-core users when they are perceived as brand tourists. The brand tourism effect is mediated by core users' pride and moderated by brand patriotism and selectiveness of the brand. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Limits of Scale: Companies That Get Big Fast... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But “we were often left... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309088 The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (E) Harvard Business School Supplement 209-082 No abstract is available at this time.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

database and publishing that information every day. I just compute the average, and then let's say the next day, I compute the average again. But on that day, let's say you—Rachel—have left that group of people, and been removed from the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

suit political needs. "The legacies Britain’s empire left behind have had significant bearings on a quarter of the world’s landmass where nations were born out of a cauldron of violence." What we do know is... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

supplanted job priorities.  No data was provided, but the impression left by the article was that because so many good people have left Amazon, it pursues either intentionally... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

use the word “if”: “If we shut down the service” or “If we transfer you to a new role,” the case says. Officials also encouraged managers to move workers who weren’t meeting expectations to new workspaces or even remove their office chairs. Some who resisted a new role... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

Stevenson and Dr. Bernice King, minister, lawyer, and the youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr. “It’s very special, how much of his own time and energy he put in, learning what was happening and taking both the moral and business... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

infighting, and allegations of corruption. The district was by far the lowest performing in the state, and nearly half of its 125 schools failed to meet their adequate yearly progress goals in 2004 as required by the federal No View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

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