IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for significant innovation that are then replicated elsewhere to lay the groundwork for taking them to scale and changing the institutional context. The teaching note is designed to assist instructors when teaching the case in teaching students about leading complex institutional change using a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder approach, examine a new model for secondary education in the United States, scaling social ventures, analyze public sector innovation involving multiple partners, and how businesses can leverage core competencies to positively impact society.