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Leadership Team | Harvard Business School Online
HBS Online Leadership Team V.G. Narayanan Senior Associate Dean, HBS Online and Executive Education; Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Simeen Mohsen Senior...
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- Jan 06 2015
- Testimonial
Managing Change as a Team
- 2017
- Supplement
Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
The (B) case provides an update to the (A) case by illustrating how charter school management organization Uncommon Schools responded to the disparity in its students’ 2013 standardized test results. In 2015, CEO Brett Peiser and his management team decided to align...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Strategy;
Teaching;
Talent And Talent Management;
Innovation;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (B): Seeking Excellence at Scale through Standardized Practice." Harvard Business Publishing Supplement, 2017. (Case No. PEL-080.)
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Helping management teams build companies
As founder and CEO of Providence Equity Partners, Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983) looks for good people to partner with. He attributes his firm’s remarkable results to the leaders they’ve identified and backed. (Published December 2014)
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- November 2012
- Article
Does Management Really Work?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In...
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Keywords:
Best Practices;
Consulting Firms;
Corporations;
Cost Control;
Employee Training;
Executive Ability (Management);
Executives—training Of;
Hospitals—administration;
Industrial Management—research;
Productivity Incentives;
School Management Teams;
Work Environment;
Management;
Research
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Really Work?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012).
- 2017
- Case
Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks
By: John J-H Kim and Sarah McAra
In 2013, Brett Peiser, CEO of the charter school management organization (CMO) Uncommon Schools, is reassessing the nonprofit’s strategy. For nearly 10 years, Uncommon had fulfilled its mission to bring high-quality education to students in low-income, urban areas...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Teaching;
Talent Management;
Innovation;
Organization Structure;
Education;
Early Childhood Education;
Middle School Education;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Consistency;
Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kim, John J-H, and Sarah McAra. "Uncommon Schools (A): A Network of Networks." Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2017. (Case No. PEL-079.)
- 29 Sep 2021
- News
Harvard Business School Announces Rock Accelerator Teams for 2021-22
- Awards
Strategic Management Society. Best Conference Paper Prize
Nominated for the 1999 McKinsey Best Conference Paper Award Honorable Mention presented by Strategic Management Society for "Does Diversification Cause the 'Diversification Discount'?" (Paper presented at the Haas School of Business, University of California at...
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- 27 Jan 2013
- News
Lincoln's School of Management
- 08 Oct 2020
- News
Harvard Business School Announces Rock Accelerator Teams for 2020-21
Certificate in School Management and Leadership
Certificate in School Management and Leadership is an innovative collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School, powered by HBS Online. CSML is designed to provide preK-12 school leaders at all stages of their careers with...
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- February 2015 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
AltSchool: School Reimagined
By: John J-H Kim, Kyla Wilkes and Christine S. An
Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's frustration with the education options available for his young daughter. During his search, Ventilla comes to the...
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Keywords:
Education Technology;
School Models;
Product Development;
Entrepreneurship;
Talent Development And Retention;
Social Impact Investment;
Information Technology;
Business Model;
Education;
Business Startups;
Customization and Personalization;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
United States
Kim, John J-H, Kyla Wilkes, and Christine S. An. "AltSchool: School Reimagined." Harvard Business School Case 315-054, February 2015. (Revised June 2016.)
- 25 Apr 2023
- HBS Seminar
Bart Vanneste, UCL School of Management
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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- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
bankers, programmers, creatives, and general managers often leave with a team of colleagues to join a competitor. This phenomenon is called a lift out. It is observed in industries as diverse as medicine,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2010
- News
A Model for Free Schools in Britain
- January 26, 2013
- Guest Column
Lincoln's School of Management
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Lincoln's School of Management." Business Day. New York Times (January 26, 2013).
Lincoln’s School of Management
The legacy of Abraham Lincoln hangs over every American president. To free a people, to preserve the Union, “to bind up the nation's wounds”: Lincoln's presidency, at a moment of great moral passion in the country's history, is a study in high-caliber leadership.
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- November 2013
- Case
Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford and Lisa Strope
After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was...
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Keywords:
Charter Schools;
Real Estate;
Fund Raising;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Nicole Shomair, Vernon Beckford, and Lisa Strope. "Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools." Harvard Business School Case 214-033, November 2013.
- November 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners
By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
Private equity firm XAF Partners, created out of the 2003 merger of Shanghai-based Xuan Partners and AF Group, a spin out of the Shanghai-based, emerging market-focused private equity arm of a large European bank, had grown steadily over the last decade, establishing...
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Keywords:
Professional Service Firms;
Leading Teams;
Producing Managers;
Delegation;
Giving And Receiving Feedback;
Managing Performance;
Leadership;
Work-Life Balance;
Managerial Roles;
Talent and Talent Management;
Service Operations;
Time Management;
Performance;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia
Groysberg, Boris, and Kerry Herman. "Doing Deals and Leading Teams at XAF Partners." Harvard Business School Case 413-032, November 2012. (Revised July 2014.)