How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
| Published: | July 25, 2011 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
| Forum: | open for comment; 19 Comments posted |
In The Innovative University, authors Clayton M. Christensen and Henry J. Eyring take Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation to the field of higher education, where new online institutions and learning tools are challenging the future of traditional colleges and universities.
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
| Published: | June 8, 2011 |
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| Paper Release Date: | October 2010 (revised) |
| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
| Forum: | open for comment; 7 Comments posted |
As cap and trade becomes an increasingly popular mechanism for governments to cut corporate pollution, students at Harvard Business School use a simulation to learn how it works. An interview with professor Peter Coles.
Published in 2010
Panel on Pedagogical Innovations in MBA Courses
| Published: | October 22, 2010 |
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| Feature: | HBS Faculty Research Symposium: 2010 |
Faculty Research Symposium 2010: Multiple pedagogical innovations are taking place at HBS that are fundamentally changing students' learning experiences.
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
| Q&A with: | Srikant M. Datar and David A. Garvin |
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| Published: | May 3, 2010 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Why get an MBA degree? Transformations in business and society make this question increasingly urgent for executives, business school deans, students, faculty, and the public. In a new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads, Harvard Business School's Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. Cullen suggest opportunities for innovation. Q&A with Datar and Garvin plus book excerpt.
Investing in Improvement: Strategy and Resource Allocation in Public School Districts
| Author: | Stacey Childress |
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| Published: | February 10, 2010 |
| Paper Release Date: | January 2010 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
The operating environments of public school districts are largely void of the market forces that reward a company's success with more capital and exert pressure on it to eventually abandon unproductive activities. Stacey Childress describes the strategic resource decisions in 3 of the 20 public school districts that she and colleagues have studied through the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard. The stories in San Francisco, New York City, and Maryland's Montgomery County occurred largely before the districts faced dramatic decreases in revenues, though they show the superintendents facing budget concerns near the end of the narratives. Even so, the situations share common principles that superintendents and their leadership teams can use to make differentiated resource decisions—reducing spending in some areas and increasing it in others with a clear rationale for why these decisions will produce results for students.
Published in 2009
HBS Past and Present
| Published: | October 7, 2009 |
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| Feature: | HBS Business Summit |
Eight enduring themes have characterized Harvard Business School from its earliest years, and remain as integral as ever to the way the School thinks and operates.
Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years
| Published: | September 30, 2009 |
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| Feature: | HBS Business Summit |
Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust reflected on Harvard Business School's past 100 years and shared her vision of the future, while HBS Dean Jay Light discussed the School's history and highlighted key focus areas for the future.
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
| Published: | July 24, 2009 |
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| Feature: | HBS Business Summit |
Business schools are innovating and experimenting to change the MBA experience, and to help business education regain its relevance and value. Along with a changing curricula, programs are attempting to make the learning experience more interactive, engaging, global, and experiential.
Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education
| Published: | July 2, 2009 |
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| Feature: | HBS Business Summit |
Amid formidable barriers, a set of passionate social entrepreneurs are disrupting the status quo in education with innovative and effective approaches that are producing measurable results. The challenge now is to build support so these solutions can be applied elsewhere.
Published in 2008
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
| Published: | November 24, 2008 |
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| Feature: | HBS Centennial Colloquia Reports |
The MBA industry is in turmoil. Many business schools are revisiting their offerings to see if they still have relevance in the 21st century. And HBS is using its centennial year to convene worldwide experts on business education and plot its directions for the next 100 years. From HBS Alumni Bulletin.
Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success
| Authors: | Josh Lerner, Antoinette Schoar, and Jialan Wang |
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| Published: | September 17, 2008 |
| Paper Release Date: | August 2008 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
University endowments are important and interesting institutions both in the investing community and society at large. They play a role in maintaining the academic excellence of many universities that rely heavily on income from their endowments. In contrast, poor finances can undermine a school's ability to provide academic services altogether. Endowments have also received much attention recently for their superior investment returns compared with other institutional investors. In this study, the authors document the trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005.
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
| Q&A with: | Clayton M. Christensen, Michael B. Horn, and Curtis W. Johnson |
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| Published: | August 18, 2008 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, who developed the theory of disruptive innovation, joins colleagues Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson to advocate for ways in which ideas around innovation can spur much-needed improvements in public education. A Q&A with the authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns.
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
| Q&A with: | Stacey M. Childress |
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| Published: | July 14, 2008 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
The New Orleans public school system, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is now getting a boost from charter schools—today about half of the city's 80 schools are charter schools, says HBS lecturer and senior researcher Stacey M. Childress. She explains what New Orleans represents for entrepreneurial opportunities in U.S. public education.
The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School
| Published: | May 7, 2008 |
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| Feature: | HBS Centennial Colloquia Reports |
This colloquium held at HBS in April looked at key developments in the areas of entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, accounting, and strategy, among others. HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow describes the highlights.
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
| Published: | April 16, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen was the maestro of Harvard Business School's case method of teaching. Over a career spanning half a century, Christensen made his colleagues better teachers, and his students better leaders. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.
Published in 2007
Management Education's Unanswered Questions
| Q&A with: | Rakesh Khurana |
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| Published: | October 8, 2007 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Managers want the status of professionals, but not all managers want the constraints that go along with professions. Why? For more than 100 years, business education at the top universities has been searching for its soul. HBS professor Rakesh Khurana, author of a new book, says business school education is at a turning point.
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
| Published: | September 7, 2007 |
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| Feature: | What Do YOU Think? |
| Forum: | closed | 70 Comments posted |
Summing Up. The founders of top business schools wanted to make management a profession similar to law, medicine, and theology. But the results look different, according to a new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, by HBS professor Rakesh Khurana. Now Jim Heskett asks: How, and to what extent, are business schools themselves contributing to the situation? Forum now closed.
Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
| Authors: | Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth |
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| Published: | May 22, 2007 |
| Paper Release Date: | April 2007 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
One of the goals of school matching systems is to limit the extent to which students and parents feel it necessary to "game the system" to be accepted at a favored school. Several years ago, the authors of this paper assisted the New York City Department of Education in redesigning the way it matched over 90,000 students entering public high schools each year. The situation in New York City is a hybrid: Some schools actively rank potential students, others have no preferences, and still others fall in between. This paper concentrates on the welfare considerations and incentives that arise in school choice due to the fact that many students are regarded by schools as equivalent. The research develops and expands on economic theory demanded by the design of school choice mechanisms.
"UpTick" Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
| Published: | February 12, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
Money managers work in a stressful, competitive pressure cooker that's hard to appreciate from the safety of a business management classroom. That's why HBS professors Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford invented upTick—a market simulation program that has students sweating and strategizing as they recreate classic market scenarios.
Published in 2006
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
| Q&A with: | Jay O. Light |
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| Published: | October 18, 2006 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
As Harvard Business School's ninth Dean, Jay Light takes control at a critical point in time. Light discusses the opportunities brought by globalism, challenges in recruiting and developing faculty, and program innovation needed to meet the needs of 21st-century business leaders.
