Filter Results
:
(89)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(89)
- News (46)
- Research (29)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (13)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(89)
- News (46)
- Research (29)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (13)
- 14 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
- March 2010 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Public Education in New Orleans: Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship
By: Stacey M. Childress and James Weber
After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in New Orleans and shifted the management structure from a “single school system to a system of schools.” Entrepreneurs from the region and around the...
View Details
Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Governance;
Natural Disasters;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Education Industry;
New Orleans
Childress, Stacey M., and James Weber. "Public Education in New Orleans: Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Case 310-052, March 2010. (Revised January 2011.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp
By: Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth and Oliver Tercieux
In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions in a single-offer assignment mechanism known as OneApp. The RSD also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top...
View Details
Keywords:
Education;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Marketplace Matching;
Mathematical Methods;
Design
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux. "Minimizing Justified Envy in School Choice: The Design of New Orleans' OneApp." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 23265, March 2017.
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
contributors to the learning process? If so, what will have to happen? What do you think? Original Article There will be an endless number of post-mortems concerning the tragedies that befell the residents of New View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux Abstract—In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
The Big Easy, Not So Easy
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the case examines how...
View Details
Keywords:
Natural Disasters;
Housing;
Projects;
Risk Management;
Urban Development;
Reputation;
New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy." Harvard Business School Case 208-068, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- 08 Jun 2022
- News
Joseph B. Fuller on the State of the Workforce
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Pine Street Inn gets into corporate catering
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
Jackson Shuttleworth (HBS MBA 2020) had his first cold drip in a New Orleans coffee shop in February 2019, from which began his journey to obtain a decent cold drip device for the home. After giving up on...
View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
structured and how much equity the founders should relinquish in exchange for the start-up capital. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807027 Rebuilding the New View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
plainly what was at stake," he wrote in Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul. The answer, in Schultz's mind, was a three-day conference in New Orleans in October 2008, a...
View Details
- February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
- Supplement
The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo
A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans.
View Details
Keywords:
Natural Disasters;
Housing;
Projects;
Risk Management;
Urban Development;
Reputation;
New Orleans
Retsinas, Nicolas P., and Ben Creo. "The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter." Harvard Business School Supplement 208-125, February 2008. (Revised May 2012.)
- Web
Hiring Organizations
Parters N Nanonets National Basketball Association - NBA National Health Service National Park Service - NPS Nature Conservancy, The Nautilus Solar Energy Ned Stevens - Exterior Home Services Neuberger Berman New Mountain Capital View Details
- Web
Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
less than 1km from home. Crescent City Schools and FirstLine Schools Alyssa Schechter (MBA2016) | New Orleans, LA Crescent City Schools and FirstLine Schools are open-enrollment charter networks that raise student achievement and prepare...
View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound. Photos courtesy David Valesquez David Velasquez (MBA/MPP 2023, MD 2024), right, at the GOTVax mobile clinic in greater Boston he helped to cofound....
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship Stacey Childress and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 310-052 After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
her hometown of New Orleans before moving to Miami. Gibson shifted her focus to cultivating higher-wage jobs in marginalized communities and drew on her background in environmental sciences to form EcoTech...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
elements do not translate well from manufacturing and what challenges exist in a unique setting, such as this. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-001.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNew Schools for New View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
of success is that a manager may not realize the need to constantly adapt strategy—the old adage “when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail” may apply. The careers of several long-time successful NFL coaches help shed light on this concept. View Details