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- March 2008 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
New Schools for New Orleans 2008
Founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008, conditions on...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Education;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Situation or Environment;
Adaptation;
Value Creation;
Education Industry;
New Orleans
Childress, Stacey, Scott Benson, and Sarah Tudryn. "New Schools for New Orleans 2008." Harvard Business School Case 308-074, March 2008. (Revised November 2009.)
- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Consumer Power;
Innovation In Healthcare Delivery;
Mobile Healthcare;
Transition;
Transformation;
Trends;
Customer Satisfaction;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Management;
Marketing;
Markets;
Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
South America;
North and Central America;
Middle East;
Europe;
Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
2008, I decided to make the leap: I began the process of becoming a certified high-school math teacher. When D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spoke to the HBS Club of Washington in October 2008,...
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- 20 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Sell Side School Ties
- 13 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
David Moss, Harvard Business School
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Simmons to join his team to take on another challenge: ensuring that every US public school opens its door to full-time, in-person instruction this fall. What was it like working in Governor Lamont’s office...
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Julia Hanna
- August 2003 (Revised September 2003)
- Case
KIPP National, 2002 (B): Managing a School Network
Continues the history of the KIPP Academies--two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Fineberg and David Levin in Houston and New York.
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Leschly, Stig. "KIPP National, 2002 (B): Managing a School Network." Harvard Business School Case 804-049, August 2003. (Revised September 2003.)
Managing School Districts for High Performance
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and...
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- 06 Feb 2014
- HBS Seminar
Karthik Ramanna, Harvard Business School
- 04 Apr 2016
- HBS Seminar
Ariel Stern, Harvard Business School
- 19 Jun 2021
- News
How Public Letters Became Companies’ Favorite Form of Activism
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
teachers and staff. Few are accepted but those who are are paid well. “The ability to hire the best is the single most important factor in our success,” said Kleban, who hopes to build a small network of schools. “We are using basic business practices. For too long,...
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charter schools
- 2004
- Teaching Note
Learning to Manage with Data in Duval County Public Schools: Lake Shore Middle School (A) and (B) Case Series, Teaching Note
By: Allen Grossman, James P. Honan and Caroline Joan King
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
Financial data on US companies is easy to come by—if they are listed on the stock market. More than 99 percent of them are not, presenting a challenge for researchers intent on studying how privately held firms operate. “It seemed natural for us to look at how the...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
technologies -- responsibly manage innovation without sacrificing profitability? What is the role of government in mitigating harms and establishing safeguards?? I came to the HBS and Harvard Kennedy School MBA/MPP joint degree program...
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- October 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Background Note
Advanced Leadership in Public Education: Tools for Tackling Change from Outside the Building In
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Pamela Yatsko
If you want to create change in public education but are not a school principal or other traditional public education leader, what do you need to do? This long, integrated background note examines the inspiring models and stories of individuals who are improving...
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- January 2007 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
Fulton County School System: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Monica Nah Lee
Illustrates the adaptation and implementation of a private sector management tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to a public school district. As part of a continuous improvement initiative, the Director of Planning and Policy facilitates the development of a strategy map and...
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Keywords:
Education;
Governance;
Leadership;
Balanced Scorecard;
Performance Improvement;
Strategy;
Education Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Monica Nah Lee. "Fulton County School System: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 107-029, January 2007. (Revised August 2007.)