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- January 2021
- Case
Saham Group: It's In the Genes
By: Christina R. Wing and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 as Moulay Mhamed Elalamy (Mhamed), CEO of the Saham Group (the Group), a pan-African investment company that operates a variety of businesses out of Morocco, contemplates the Group’s identity, its investment strategy, and how to navigate...
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- January 2021
- Case
Pearson: Efficacy 2.0
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and James Weber
Pearson, that billed itself as the "world's learning company," faced a host of critical decisions in mid-2020. Several years prior, it had embarked on a new path that put the learner at the heart of the business and committed to a new strategic orientation. The new...
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Keywords:
education industry
- November 2020
- Case
BRAC in 2020
By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every...
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- November 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Supplement
Bridge International Academies in 2020: Battling Headwinds to Solve Africa’s Education Problems
By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim
By 2020, Bridge International Academies and its "school in a box" model had achieved great scale. By leveraging digital technology and public-private partnerships, they had reached one million children across Africa and India through hundreds of schools. However, the...
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- November 2020
- Case
Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
Founded in 2015, Guild Education is an education marketplace that connects employers and universities to provide employees with ‘education as a benefit.’ The Denver-based company is transforming traditional tuition assistance programs by facilitating direct payment by...
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- October 2020
- Case
PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen
Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in...
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- September 2020
- Case
Wladimir Klitschko: F.A.C.E. Your Challenges
By: Boris Groysberg, Michael Norris and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2020, Olympic goal medal winning boxer and former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko had built himself a “second ring” to continue his career after retiring from professional boxing. He was a hotelier, boxing promoter, author, teacher, speaker, and had...
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- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Supplement
Student Success at Georgia State University (B)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving...
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Keywords:
education;
Higher education;
Learning;
Curriculum And Courses;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Income;
Race;
Values And Beliefs;
Leadership;
Goals And Objectives;
Measurement And Metrics;
Operations;
Organizations;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome Or Result;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Performance Improvement;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Issues;
Wealth And Poverty;
Equality And Inequality;
Technology;
Technology Platform;
education industry;
Atlanta
- September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Student Success at Georgia State University (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African...
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Keywords:
education;
Higher education;
Learning;
Curriculum And Courses;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Income;
Race;
Leadership;
Goals And Objectives;
Measurement And Metrics;
Operations;
Organizations;
Mission And Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Outcome Or Result;
Performance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation;
Service Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Issues;
Wealth And Poverty;
Equality And Inequality;
Technology;
Technology Platform;
education industry;
Atlanta
- August 2020
- Teaching Note
Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Teaching Note for Case No. 321-016. Beginning in March 2020, Sesame Workshop navigated a global pandemic, which caused unemployment, businesses shutdowns, school closures, and remote work environments along with a racial justice crisis, with a renewed mission that led...
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- August 2020
- Teaching Note
Sesame Workshop (B): Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Teaching Note for Case No. 321-015. In 2019, Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary while on a winning streak of social impact, innovation, and peak media and financial results. Over the past four years, CEO Jeff Dunn and his turnaround team exhibited...
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- August 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Digital Marketing at HBS Online
By: Sunil Gupta and Rajiv Lal
In July 2020, the management team of Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) had to decide how to allocate its marketing budget for fiscal year 2021 between various digital channels and its portfolio of courses. Since its launch in 2014, HBS Online had grown to...
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- July 2020
- Teaching Plan
Girls Who Code
By: Brian Trelstad and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to HBS Case No. 320-055, “Girls Who Code.” Founded 2012 by former lawyer Reshma Saujani, Girls Who Code (GWC) offered coding education programs to middle- and high school-aged girls. The organization also sought to alter...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Spoken Communication;
Interpersonal Communication;
Demographics;
Age;
Gender;
education;
Curriculum And Courses;
Learning;
Middle School education;
Secondary education;
Leadership Style;
Leadership;
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Psychology;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Cognition And Thinking;
Prejudice And Bias;
Power And Influence;
Identity;
Social And Collaborative Networks;
Motivation And Incentives;
Society;
Civil Society Or Community;
Culture;
Public Opinion;
Social Issues;
Technology;
Software;
education industry;
Technology industry;
North And Central America;
United States
- July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent
By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko
In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed...
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Keywords:
Experience And Expertise;
Talent And Talent Management;
Curriculum And Courses;
Executive education;
Social Entrepreneurship;
National Security;
Recruitment;
Retention;
Job Interviews;
Job Search;
Knowledge Use And Leverage;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Crisis Management;
Mission And Purpose;
Retirement;
Nonprofit Organizations;
War;
education industry;
San Diego;
Virginia
- July 2020
- Case
Sesame Workshop (C): Mission Critical Responses to Global and National Crises
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Beginning in March 2020, Sesame Workshop navigated a global pandemic and racial justice crisis, which caused unemployment, business shutdowns, school closures, and remote work. The CEO and team responded with new partnership using its assets and reinforcing its...
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- July 2020
- Supplement
Sesame Workshop (B): Celebrating 50 Years of Helping Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In 2019, Sesame Workshop celebrated its 50th anniversary while on a winning streak of social impact, innovation, and peak media and financial results. Over the past four years, CEO Jeff Dunn and his turnaround team exhibited values-driven leadership, instituted...
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- June 2020
- Case
Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)
By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu
Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
education;
Training;
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Management;
Goals And Objectives;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizations;
Mission And Purpose;
Personal Development And Career;
Health Pandemics;
Technology industry;
education industry;
Employment industry
- June 2020
- Supplement
Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (B)
By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang
This (B) case expands upon the journey of Career Karma’s three founders by presenting a fictionalized Investor Meeting scenario.
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Growth And Maturation;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
education;
Training;
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Management;
Goals And Objectives;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizations;
Mission And Purpose;
Personal Development And Career;
Technology industry;
education industry;
Employment industry
- 2020
- Working Paper
What Jobs Are Being Done at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis? Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
The threat of COVID-19 has increased the health risks of going to an office or factory, leading more workers to do their jobs remotely. In this paper, we provide results from firm surveys on both small and large businesses on the prevalence and productivity of remote...
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- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Fossil Fuel Divestment
By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick
Teaching note to accompany HBS case 620-093, Fossil Fuel Divestment, by Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick.
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