Faculty & Research
Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership.
Edited by Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson. (Paperback). Boston: Harvard Education Press, 2007.
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human capital management, resource allocation, and accountability and performance improvement systems to support an overarching strategy. This central idea provides a valuable conceptual framework for current and future school leaders.
The case studies presented in Managing School Districts for High Performance grow out of the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a unique partnership between the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a network of urban school districts. This rich array of cases explores the managerial challenges districts face as they seek to ensure rich learning opportunities and high achievement for all students across a system of schools.
Published Work
Harvard Business School faculty members have published numerous books, articles, and working papers on topics related to social enterprise. Selected articles and cases can be found by topic in the Resources by Topic section of this website. A list of HBS Social Enterprise Faculty Publications for the 2008–2009 academic term (July 2008 – June 2009), is available as a PDF.
Many faculty publications are accessible or available for purchase through the following sources:
- Search HBS Working Knowledge for cutting-edge research by HBS faculty.
- Search Harvard Business School's faculty publications and research interest databases.
- Search Harvard Business Publishing for articles and cases.
Search Hints
- For cases generated by the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), search "PEL."
- For cases generated by the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN), search "SKE."
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