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- April 2014 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne and Nathaniel Burbank
In 2011 Britt Harris, the Chief Investment Officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), was considering whether to pursue strategic partnerships with a group of large private equity firms. After spending four years aggressively moving the... View Details
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, Luis M. Viceira, John D. Dionne, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way." Harvard Business School Case 214-091, April 2014. (Revised October 2015.)
- Web
Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Partners Partners Teacher Profiles WA Lacey Aaker Kentwood High School Covington, WA TX Sam Abramson St. John's School Houston, TX Subjects: U.S. History RI Richard Abruzzini Cranston Career & Technical Center-Cranston West Cranston, RI... View Details
- Web
Partners - Case Method Project
Partners Partners AK HI WA OR CA ID NV UT AZ MT WY CO NM ND SD NE KS OK TX MN IA MO AR LA WI IL IN KY TN MS MI OH WV NC AL PA VA SC GA NY NJ MD DC FL VT MA CT DE ME NH RI 1000 teachers across the country See if View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
Source: rawpixel Many jobs involve completing a series of sequential, independent, prearranged tasks. Physicians see patients; teachers grade papers; insurance agents process stacks of claims. In the interest of productivity, some... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
question of how to teach history, in Texas or anywhere. The strictures of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills concern themselves with 30- second definitions. At a private school not bound by the state... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
hardware and software solution to 300 clients, mainly primary and secondary schools in India. The product aimed to improve student engagement and performance, reduce the time it took teachers to develop and grade learning assessments,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
Harvard Business School Case 214-091 Texas Teachers and the New Texas Way In 2011 Britt Harris, the chief investment officer for the $107.4 billion View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Roy Ben-Dor
Signal Processing, an enterprise that developed the cable modem chip set. "I worked on it for five or six years, then we sold it to Texas Instruments," Roy says. "I had been involved in everything: marketing, manufacturing,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
Bahrain, and England. While in Texas with Monsanto, he noticed that the top managers had technical degrees but little training in business administration and economics. Sensing an opportunity for advancement, he enrolled in night classes... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
incursion. In 10th grade chemistry classes, students are studying the nitrogen cycle. 150 biology teachers have been trained and MJ has launched sophomore chemistry programs in 25 high schools in Montgomery County. The “Mussel Power... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
professor at Pennsylvania State University. He quickly made his mark at HBS as an effective and highly regarded teacher in the MBA and Executive Education Programs, while also taking leadership roles in the administration of the School's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
sophomores, 100 juniors, and 80 seniors. A significant percentage of Spingarn students receive reduced-price lunches. Many of those same students eat their lunch while sporting iPods, iPhones, and watches bigger than Texas belt buckles,... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
filming his lessons. Sal Khan: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit, and those same cousins were dispersed to Texas and Florida. And so, in many ways I was their safety net education system while they were refugees, I guess, with a lowercase... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
Davis, as well as the teachers and the students, were all highly motivated, which is not always the case, particularly in New York City schools. I have a hypothesis that young people are totally underchallenged and that school is often... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
months that included marrying Sarah Abugre, a teacher he met in Ghana; moving with her to the United States; and settling in at Soldiers Field. While pursuing concurrent MBA and MPA degrees at HBS and the Kennedy School, Murphy was... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Leadership. She has received the Excellence in Teaching Award of the Year in the Executive MBA programs at Fuqua ten times. She received her Bachelor in Business Administration degree and Master in Professional Accounting degree from the University of View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
broadcaster in the country. In 1972, L. Lowry Mays (MBA '62) bought a Texas radio station for $175,000; today his Clear Channel Communications owns 18 TV stations and 140 radio stations across the country. HBS alumni would make their... View Details