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  • January 2016 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

From Preparatory Academy to National Flagship: The Evolution of Tsinghua University

By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby
Tsinghua University is one of the most prominent universities in China, and, increasingly, in the world. Its evolution to this position reflects the major developments in Chinese history—outward looking internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s, creative survival in the... View Details
Keywords: University Administration; University Curriculum; University Faculty; World-class Universities; Higher Education; History; Governance; Education Industry; China; Beijing
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  • 2022
  • Book

Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China

By: William C. Kirby
The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first?
Today American institutions dominate nearly every... View Details
Keywords: University; Higher Education; History; United States; Germany; China
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  • 2010
  • Book

Building World Class Universities in Asia

By: D. Quinn Mills
After discussing higher education's potential contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia,... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Curriculum and Courses; Higher Education; Selection and Staffing; Research; Asia
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  • January 2011 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

GLOBIS

By: Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA program in September 2012. GLOBIS University was already offering successful part-time MBA programs in English and Japanese. The full-time English... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Education; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Adaptation; Expansion; Education Industry; Japan
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  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

The Entrepreneurs Of The Soconusco A protégée of historian John Womack, Lurtz took an interest in Latin American economics while an undergrad at Harvard College. As a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, she spent more than a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

earthquake damage. They can take action now to ensure that America invests in growing our domestic stock of world-class suppliers. A national campaign to enhance supply-chain partnerships could also accelerate job creation. America needs... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

  Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

the past two decades by following an approach its founder calls “the Walmartization of healthcare.” The hospital delivers world-class results for cardiac patients, provides an excellent work environment to its medical staff, and has... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Companies have always found it hard to balance pressing operational concerns with long-term strategic priorities. The tension is critical: World-class processes won't lead to success without the right strategic direction, and the best... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

many different audiences he reached. We all consider him a world-class scholar, a once-in-several-generations writer and researcher. You can't say Alfred D. Chandler without taking a short pause before you speak, a bit like Jacqueline... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

come from the mistakenly named "bottom" up, from faculty at the top of their fields. Having an institutional structure to support this is rare anywhere, and in Chinese universities today it is rarer still. Can View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-065 World-Class Universities: Rankings and Reputation in Global Higher Education Discussions of "world-class" View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

future course of Asian business. "Asia has always been a tough place to do research," notes McFarlan, the driving force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January. "With a... View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

preventable deaths, despite its world-class resources and medical technology. The Democratic presidential candidates have been debating the benefits of the “Medicare for All” approach versus a public insurance option. The former would... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40 million people, and in 1966, Mao’s Cultural Revolution shut down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost generation. Q: Did you get a sense... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0610G Emerging Giants: Building World-Class Companies in Developing Countries Authors:Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu Periodical:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA program in September 2012. GLOBIS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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