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HBS Working Knowledge
May 3, 2010
Martha Lagace |
What Is the Future of MBA Education? Why get an MBA degree? Transformations in business and society make this question increasingly urgent for executives, business school deans, students, faculty, and the public.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 24, 2008 |
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA Critics claim MBA programs put too much emphasis on theory and not enough on leadership in a global environment. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 21, 2005
Khurana & Nohria |
Is Business Management a Profession? If management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue Harvard professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and research associate Daniel Penrice. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 20, 2012
Scott A. Snook et al. |
Teaching Leadership: What We Know The field of leadership education has reached a critical stage. After several decades of experimentation, "The Handbook for Teaching Leadership," is intended to be a foundational reference for educators facing this increasingly important challenge. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 10, 2010
Martha Lagace |
What the Brightest Scholars Say about Leadership Leadership as a phenomenon for research is experiencing a rebirth due to developments in the academy and the urgency for improving leadership globally. |
BusinessWeek
November 5, 2007
Hardy Green |
Are B-Schools a Blight on the Land? "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession" is an important and surprisingly disparaging look at B-school education. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 7, 2007
Jim Heskett |
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management? The founders of top business schools wanted to make management a profession similar to law, medicine, and theology. But the results look different, according to a new book, From Higher Aims to Hired Hands. |
CRM
May 2014
Maria Minsker |
The Evolution of the MBA What business schools are doing to better prepare your future employees. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 18, 2006
Roger Thompson |
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light discusses the opportunities brought by globalism, challenges in recruiting and developing faculty, and program innovation needed to meet the needs of 21st-century business leaders. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 4, 2005
James Heskett |
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Business schools focus more on academic rigor than preparing students for future professional success. It may be time to change this focus. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2005 |
Readers Respond: How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Don't you think that part of the problem is in how business schools are selecting their students?... I was shocked recently to discover what appears to be a rampant disconnect among key professors... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 14, 2008
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
Financial Advisor
June 2012
Jerilyn Klein Bier |
Class Act More business schools are offering corporate responsibility and SRI components. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 11, 2012
Julia Hanna |
The Future of Boards In "The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century," Professor Jay Lorsch brings together experts to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 15, 2011
Martha Lagace |
High Ambition Leadership Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value, examines how CEOs from major companies made a positive difference for society while not neglecting profits. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 1, 2003
Mallory Stark |
The Business of Education: An Interview with Derek Bok Is higher education becoming too chummy with the private sector? What can each learn from the other? An interview with the former Harvard President. Plus: Book excerpt. |
BusinessWeek
November 27, 2006
Richard Schmalensee |
Where's The "B" In B-Schools? Many business schools are seeking to make research and teaching more valuable to practicing managers. This is easier said than done. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Ann Marsh |
25 Great Schools For Future Financial Planners The academic landscape for financial planning is shifting rapidly. Here s where to find the next generation of advisors. |
Searcher
August 2002
Carol Tenopir |
Educating Tomorrow's Information Professionals Today It is a great time to enter the information professions, but one that poses challenges for LIS schools and employers, as a new generation of information professionals comes on the scene and prepares to tackle jobs in a variety of environments. |
CAUSE/EFFECT
Vol 22 Num 2 1999
Paul J. Kobulnicky |
Critical Factors in Information Technology Planning for the Academy ...The analysis in this article is derived from an academic information technology planning process undertaken at the University of Connecticut.... |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 24, 2015
Christian Camerota |
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality A case study explores a new breed of "microschools" focused on reducing costs, enhancing educational impact, prioritizing customer satisfaction, and using technology to create continuous improvement. |
Searcher
March 2011
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 25, 2011
Christensen & Eyring |
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University Online learning is a disruptive technology that is making colleges and universities reconsider their higher education models. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2005
Garrett Dikkers et al. |
A Bridge to Success There is a no man's land between the recognized need for tech-process, and our still-developing sense of best practice and how to leverage this really powerful tool to get kids learning in exciting ways. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011 |
HHMI Announces $60 Million Competition for Colleges Challenging colleges and universities to think creatively about how they teach science, HHMI has invited 215 undergraduate-focused institutions across the country to apply for a total of $60 million in science education grants. |
Fast Company
September 2003 |
Fast Talk: Turning the (conference) tables Five top business-school deans grapple with questions from their own MBA application forms. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 28, 2009
Roger Thompson |
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance Professor Peter Tufano talks about the course and his determination to make consumer finance a broadly accepted academic pursuit. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 1, 2000 |
Futureperspective - a Vision of Education for the 21st Century The creation and delivery of courses over the Web will be the driving force for educational change in the 21st century. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 10, 2005
Martha Lagace |
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading Should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? Maybe not. When research on leadership pays more attention to financial results than a person's ability to give the company a sense of purpose, something crucial is lost. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 21, 2009
Roger Thompson |
Excessive Executive Pay: What's the Solution? In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 30, 2006
Mallory Stark |
Lessons From Privately Managed Schools An interview with Steven Wilson, founder and former CEO of educational management organization (EMO) Advantage Schools on how -- and if -- professional business management practices can improve the performance of troubled American public schools. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 6, 2013
Carmen Nobel |
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg discusses his new case, "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012," which delves into the experiences of the School's alumnae over the past 50 years. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012 |
HHMI Awards $50 Million to Colleges Forty-seven small colleges and universities have accepted a challenge: to create more engaging science classes, bring real-world research experiences to students, and increase the diversity of students who study science. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 19, 2005
Mallory Stark |
Public Education Goes to School Can the art and science of business management help public schools improve student performance? Several Harvard professors discuss how business and education might work together on the leadership and management challenges facing the education sector. |
Job Journal
November 9, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Postsecondary Teachers College-level instructors enjoy a class of students more eager to learn. |
Financial Advisor
October 2008
Richard B. Wagner |
Mission, Meaning And Purpose There it was, again. "The Question." Posted right there on the April cover of Financial Advisor magazine for everyone to see. It mocked and cajoled, "What makes a profession, and will we ever meet that standard?" |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2011
Danielle Reed |
Financial Planning Education 101: 10 Standout Schools A closer look at ten notable schools for with financial planning programs. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Jennifer Merritt |
Is There A Doctor In The B-School? Universities are searching for ways to generate more business PhDs |
CRM
May 2011
Leonard Klie |
Higher Education Increases Marketing Schools shift focus to generate more inquiries in-house and boost technology investments. |
Searcher
May 2006
Barbie E. Keiser |
Beyond ERIC: The Early Years (Part 3) As education moves us from the realm of the child to the adult, the emphasis of the resources shifts from education to learning, with greater responsibility placed on the student for finding, using, sharing, and expanding knowledge in a particular discipline. |
Registered Rep.
February 19, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Majoring in Employment One of the top reasons students attend college is to get a good job. But just how much will schools help in the job search? |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 8, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
Who Rises to Power in American Business? A Q&A with Anthony J. Mayo, author of "Paths to Power," the first book in fifty years to exhaustively analyze the demographics of leadership and access in business in the U.S., and how the face of American leadership might be changing. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
Brian Stoffel |
Was I Completely Wrong About For-Profit Education? Our analyst takes a second look at the industry's ability to disrupt. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How College Rankings Influence Scholarship Awards For your affluent clients, it's the schools that don't possess the marquee names that will be eager to award their children scholarships. The author's book, The College Solution: A Guide to Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price explains more. |
Financial Planning
November 1, 2012
Scott Wenger |
Editor's View: The Nation's Top Financial Planning Schools A catalog of some of the nation's top financial planning schools is a resource for both planners-to-be and today s advisors |
Reason
July 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Education for Profit Many of the criticisms about the University of Phoenix are technically accurate. But much of what academic traditionalists see as problems, Phoenix advertises proudly as solutions. |
Financial Advisor
October 2007
Richard B. Wagner |
Financial Planning As A Learned Profession The notion that financial planning might explore its potentialities does not mean that every financial planner must become a scholar any more than every doctor must become a research scientist. Being a part of a profession means every member must master its basic craft. |
Job Journal
December 26, 2010 |
Find Your Future Career Training School In most areas, vocational courses have been totally retooled for the 21st century. |
