Business education

Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Close to quarter of a billion children go to school in India. Many leave without mastering concepts, gaining confidence or communicative skill. Oftentimes, our 6 million practicing teachers are […]

They need to reexamine the goals of the modern corporation - and the role executives play in achieving them.

As STEM jobs multiply, dealing with numbers will become more important.

Higher education's innovators are mostly outsiders.

Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. I have decided to spend the remainder of my career helping to replace industrial era schooling with educational structures better suited to our 21st century, global, innovation-based economy. This […]

Science doesn’t solve problems on its own.

In his work as an executive coach, psychotherapist Kets de Vries sometimes comes across bosses with mental demons. The four kinds he encounters most frequently...

Having a degree doesn’t mean you’re done learning.

It’s the best way to create value.

Research shows that class projects and internships reinforce a masculine culture.

Seek, sense, share.

Great sales professionals are scarce and getting scarcer. Why aren’t universities working harder to create more?

Companies spend heavily on executive education but often get a meager return on their investment. That's because business schools and other traditional...

Millions rely on them — but they’ll need to change to stay relevant.

Becoming a great leader demands tremendous self-awareness. You should learn from 360-degree evaluations and find a mentor to guide you.

It’s an easy solution for when you feel stuck or bored.

As the number of prospective students declines, universities will have to adapt.

The Fed used to be run by bankers and lawyers. Now the economics professors have taken charge.

How universities need to change.

They’re supposed to measure progress, but they end up imposing it.

Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe...

Harvard Business School's (HBS) California Research Center, a three-year experiment initiated in July 1997 to facilitate research, case-writing, and course...

In 2020, Olympic goal medal winning boxer and former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko had built himself a "second ring" to continue his career...

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This case study shows the evolution of the Chinese television program Fei Ni Mo Shu (You are the One), from an unrecognized show in 2010 to becoming a...

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Frank Brown, CIS of Atlanta's new Black CEO, was keen to extend CIS's well-honed case management in schools program to youth in college. Founded 50 years...

In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded...

This technical note, written for students, gives a first "how to do it" introduction to studying by the case method. The note argues that success follows...

One characteristic of our era is the lack of reflection and rigor in thinking. Not many people think, and even fewer reason properly, that is, think well...

DHAN is a non-government organisation with a difference. It is neither a philanthropic organisation nor a service organisation but a development organisation...

This case illustrates the dilemma faced by the president of EGA, a Latin American business school, who chooses to innovate and has to make some controversial...

If leaders are made, not born, what is the best way to teach the skills they need to be effective? Today's complex times require a new kind of leadership--one...

It is October 2009 and Barry Salzberg, CEO of Deloitte LLP, has just returned from the groundbreaking of Deloitte University. When completed, Deloitte...

This video supplement pairs with "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." (case no. 418011). It contains eight individual clips that range in length from 5...

The newly appointed dean of a South American business school is eager to transform the learning process from the traditional lecture method to one that...

This case invites students to grapple with the dilemmas faced by Laura Lopez, the new Executive Director of a Puerto Rican educational advocacy NGO called...

Teaching Note for E439

Teaching note for case 314030. Following a successful career as a lawyer, Chief Administrative Officer of Fidelity Investments, and law school instructor,...

Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe...

Editor’s note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Close to quarter of a billion children go to school in India. Many leave without mastering concepts, gaining confidence or communicative skill. Oftentimes, our 6 million practicing teachers are […]

Harvard Business School's (HBS) California Research Center, a three-year experiment initiated in July 1997 to facilitate research, case-writing, and course...

In 2020, Olympic goal medal winning boxer and former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko had built himself a "second ring" to continue his career...

Sir Michael Rake, chairman of BT Group, and Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s former communications director, sat down with editor in chief Adi Ignatius at the launch of Harvard Business Review’s London office.

Describes the Managing Segments module of the Business Marketing course.