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Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Gender Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
How Georgia State University Used an Algorithm to Help Students Navigate the Road to College
Communication Digital ArticleAI can personalize communications at scale. -
Why Even New Grads Need to Reskill for the Future
Communication Digital ArticleHaving a degree doesn't mean you're done learning. -
Feedback Backlash
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleManagers have a rep for being stingy with feedback. Sometimes, though, they’re way too generous. In their hopes of lifting performance with a flood of constructive comments, these well-meaning managers end up depressing productivity by drowning the beneficiaries in a sea of unwanted input. Alain Gosselin, a professor of human resources management at HEC Montréal, […] -
Why Skills Training Can’t Replace Higher Education
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Does Business Have Any Business in Education?
Developing employees Magazine ArticleIn 1983, a blue-ribbon panel composed mostly of educators told the United States that its future was at risk. In the eight years since, most Americans have come to agree with them. If once the public schools could do no wrong, today it seems they can do little right. Even parents who praise their own […] -
Integrating the Science of How We Learn into Education Technology
Business education Digital ArticleStudents learn best when they aren’t challenged too much or too little. -
Educating the Workforce of the Future
Developing employees Magazine ArticleAs the barrier between public and private sectors crumbles, what is business’s role in the classroom? -
Data Was Supposed to Fix the U.S. Education System. Here’s Why It Hasn’t.
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleBetter information doesn’t always lead to better teaching. -
The Power of Alumni Networks
Professional networks Magazine ArticleInformation moves the market—that’s understood. But how information moves through the market to eventually affect stock prices is less well understood. After analyzing more than 15 years’ worth of investment data, we’ve found one way that information gets around and improves investing performance: through alumni networks. We examined a vast data set of trading decisions […] -
How AI and Data Could Personalize Higher Education
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The Smart-Talk Trap
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleThe key to success in business is action. But in most companies, people are rewarded for talking—and the longer, louder, and more confusingly, the better. The good news is, there are five strategies that can help you avoid the trap. -
Do Colleges Truly Understand What Students Want from Them?
Business education Digital ArticleThey need to have a better understanding of why people applied in the first place. -
What Will It Take to Solve the Student Loan Crisis?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleReform needs to come from outside of higher ed. -
What If Your University Tuition Was Based on Your Future Salary?
Business education Digital ArticleThe founder of Lambda School on its experiment with income-sharing agreements. -
Will a Bachelor's Degree Matter as Much for Gen Z?
Communication Digital ArticleFaster and cheaper pathways to good first jobs are emerging. -
The Big Idea: No, Management Is Not a Profession
Leadership development Magazine ArticleSome business skills can’t be taught in a classroom. They have to be learned through experience. -
Where Online Learning Goes Next
Communication Digital ArticleWhy don't more universities let people learn on their phones? -
Research: How the Best School Leaders Create Enduring Change
Business education Digital ArticleBased on a study of 411 leaders of UK academies. -
The Five Minds of a Manager
Psychology Magazine ArticleThe world of the manager is complicated and confusing. Making sense of it requires not a knack for simplification but the ability to synthesize insights from different mind-sets into a comprehensible whole.
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Carol Johnson and U.S. School Superintendent Tenure
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details After a successful career as a superintendent of some of the nation's largest urban school districts, Carol Johnson elected to complete a Fellowship at... -
Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (B), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
SNA Educa (ex Codesser), Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details SNA Educa (previously known as Codesser) is a non-profit organization which was created by the National Association of Farmers (Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura,... -
Hopwood Manufacturing: Seeking to Hire the Best and the Brightest, or Not (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details "This is a case series featuring an A, B and C case. Robert Harvey, a business professor at a small university in Iowa, arranged for Hopwood Manufacturing... -
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes a set of issues confronting the leaders of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, an innovative cross-university effort to accelerate scientific discovery... -
VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was... -
Western Governors University: 10x Vision
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Western Governors University (WGU) was a nonprofit institution of higher education whose online learning model served more than 100,000 students in 2019... -
Transforming a Successful Organization: Societal Changes Challenge the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case is about the transformation of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan (AAUM), one of the major organizations in its field. It... -
Manan Publishing: Raising Funds for Not-for-profit
Management Case Study8.95View Details Subir Shukla, the Principal Coordinator in Ignus Pahal, was involved in improving education for marginalized children. After working for many years at... -
Better Decision-Making Through Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case is set in June 2021, 15 months into the COVID-19 pandemic. It begins with the CEO of a boutique hotel in Singapore battling mental burnout as... -
Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT's Abdul Latif... -
Dr. Joan Reede and the Embedding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Harvard Medical School
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details For more than 30 years, Dr. Joan Reede worked to increase the diversity of voices and viewpoints heard at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and at its affiliate... -
Conseco College (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The chair of the computer studies department noticed a marked change in the behavior of one of Conseco College's long-term employees. Although no official... -
Conseco College (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details The chair of computer studies at a community college has noticed a behavioral change in a long-term employee and must decide how to handle the situation.... -
Policy Violations on Gender Transition?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details RJ Tuckerton, a graduate student, claimed in October 2019 that the student's privacy and other university rights were violated when a faculty member "outed"... -
Incubators and their Role in Growing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The rise of incubator programs has been a feature of the recent surge in tech entrepreneurship. These programs are designed to help early-stage startups... -
Case Method Teaching, Portuguese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Prepared originally for new instructors in a first-year marketing course. While certain references are to cases in marketing, the note has applicability... -
Robert F. Kennedy High School
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Presents the problem facing a newly appointed high school principal. Raises issues about interpersonal and group behavior including lack of open conflict... -
Bill Riddick and the Durham S.O.S. Charrette
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Bill Riddick employs the charrette process to help black and white community leaders overcome differences and desegregate local schools in Durham, NC. -
Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case profiles the evolution of Teach Plus, a non-profit organization founded on the premise that in order for public schools to continuously improve...
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Research: How Bias Against Women Persists in Female-Dominated Workplaces
Gender Digital ArticleA look inside the ongoing barriers women face in law, health care, faith-based nonprofits, and higher education. -
Carol Johnson and U.S. School Superintendent Tenure
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details After a successful career as a superintendent of some of the nation's largest urban school districts, Carol Johnson elected to complete a Fellowship at... -
How Georgia State University Used an Algorithm to Help Students Navigate the Road to College
Communication Digital ArticleAI can personalize communications at scale. -
Paula Evans and the Redesign of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (B), Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Why Even New Grads Need to Reskill for the Future
Communication Digital ArticleHaving a degree doesn't mean you're done learning. -
Feedback Backlash
Employee performance management Magazine ArticleManagers have a rep for being stingy with feedback. Sometimes, though, they’re way too generous. In their hopes of lifting performance with a flood of constructive comments, these well-meaning managers end up depressing productivity by drowning the beneficiaries in a sea of unwanted input. Alain Gosselin, a professor of human resources management at HEC Montréal, […] -
Why Skills Training Can’t Replace Higher Education
Business education Digital ArticleIt’s a disservice to students and civil society. -
Does Business Have Any Business in Education?
Developing employees Magazine ArticleIn 1983, a blue-ribbon panel composed mostly of educators told the United States that its future was at risk. In the eight years since, most Americans have come to agree with them. If once the public schools could do no wrong, today it seems they can do little right. Even parents who praise their own […] -
Integrating the Science of How We Learn into Education Technology
Business education Digital ArticleStudents learn best when they aren’t challenged too much or too little. -
Educating the Workforce of the Future
Developing employees Magazine ArticleAs the barrier between public and private sectors crumbles, what is business’s role in the classroom?