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HBS Working Knowledge April 3, 2006 Jonathan Byrnes |
Making the CFO Chief Profitability Officer Profitability management opens a new realm of opportunity for the creative CFO. Using it, a CFO can generate revenues, profits, and cash surprisingly quickly, and at very little cost. But it requires that the CFO move beyond his or her traditional domain. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2003 Jonathan Byrnes |
Managing Profitability: One Year Later The most important issue facing managers in this difficult economy is making more money from the existing business without costly new initiatives. The author revisits this assertion from a year ago. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 2, 2004 Jonathan Byrnes |
Action-Training for Effective Change Profitability management is all about greatly improving a company's performance without the need for capital expenditures. But this requires effective change management and ironically, for many managers, it may seem easier to spend money than to change their managers' behavior. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 1, 2006 Jonathan Byrnes |
"Revenues are Good, Costs are Bad" and Other Business Myths Here are ten of the worst business myths. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 5, 2006 Jonathan Byrnes |
Masterly Management How can a person become a great manager? Like the masters of old, master managers understand that the most powerful way to be effective is to become expert at teaching and working through others. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 16, 2008 Deborah Blagg |
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom He was honored for his pioneering work at Harvard Business School in corporate strategy and case-method teaching. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 2, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
Managing at the Right Level Managing appropriately at different levels of an organization requires very different skills, activities, and time horizons because the objective of management changes radically. |
HHMI Bulletin February 2012 Cori Vanchieri. |
Susan Singer: A Magical Moment The time to entice students to be STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) teachers is during the first years of college, says Susan Singer, a professor of natural sciences at Carleton College. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2006 Randy Yerrick |
Globalizing Education One Podcast at a Time Digital media has emerged as a tool of choice for offering multimodal instruction, integrating content and pedagogy, reaching diverse learners, and complementing science instruction for today's inclusive classrooms. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Cathy Shufro |
Richard Losick: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist Universities should encourage creative teaching, says Losick, just as they reward outstanding research. |
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening? |
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 March 7, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
Achieving Supply Chain Productivity More than anything else, supply chain productivity requires that supply chain managers become experts at knowledge generation and change management. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 1, 2004 Jonathan Byrnes |
Reconnect Sales Management to Profitability In many companies, top managers are frustrated because the sales process seems disconnected from corporate objectives. This presents a serious impediment to management's efforts to manage profitability effectively. |
T.H.E. Journal March 5, 2010 David Nagel |
National Ed Tech Plan Advocates Radical Reforms in Schools The U.S. Department of Education released the first public draft of the National Education Technology Plan. The document reveals an intent not only to infuse technology throughout the curriculum, but to implement some major changes to education itself. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 4, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
The Age of Precision Markets A look at the shift from mass markets to precision markets as well as the factors driving a precision market. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
AskMen.com Samuel Hui |
5 Relationships That Can Further Your Career Here are five relationships that can help you grow your career, what to expect from these relationships and how you can get the most out of them. |
HBS Working Knowledge February 7, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes |
Precision Retailing Can you apply profitability management to a retailer? |
HBS Working Knowledge August 2, 2004 Jonathan Byrnes |
Account Management: Art or Science? The answer, not surprisingly, is that both aspects are important. But in many companies, the science of account management is neither well understood nor systematically applied. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2010 Sean Silverthorne |
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives In some respects, developing strategy is the easy part. Executing that strategy in alignment with strategic priorities is where real mastery of management takes place. |
T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Manchester, Mao & Puentedura |
Systemic School Reform :: Maine The MLTI prides itself on securing funding for ed tech, providing teacher training that meets specific schools' needs, and building learning communities. |
National Defense June 2008 Alan L. Gropman |
Waning Education Standards Threaten U.S. Competitiveness High-quality education is critical to national security, and the United States must address a number of challenges in its educational system if it wants to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy and in key technologies. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Dan Ferber |
Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Paul Tullis |
An 'A' in Abstractions In Tucson's Catalina Foothills School District, educators and administrators have decided to go all in on 21st century skills, and in so doing have revamped every subject area from K through 12. |
T.H.E. Journal April 2003 Kathleen P. Fulton |
Redesigning Schools to Meet 21st-Century Learning Needs Investing in high-quality teaching is the most important action America's leaders can take to put our children's dreams within reach and prepare our nation for the future. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Time to Teach for Postdocs Teaching experience is vital for postdocs. |
HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
T.H.E. Journal November 1, 2010 |
2020 Vision: Experts Forecast What the Digital Revolution Will Bring Next A discussion about how far we've come in education technology, and where we can expect to go. |
IndustryWeek November 16, 2010 Ralph Keller |
Continuous Improvement: Manager or Leader? Your company may have many managers but without leaders, your continuous-improvement efforts may be doomed to failure. |
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser |
Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers. |
IndustryWeek October 19, 2011 |
Staying Ahead in the Game Centers of excellence are helping U.S. manufacturers like Alcoa, Greatbatch and GE improve competitiveness at home and around the globe. |
CRM November 2007 Colin Beasty |
Predicting Profitability After years of trial-and-error, enterprises are finally developing innovative strategies and incorporating new software to allow them to identify - and sell to - their most profitable customers. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students. |
CRM May 2013 Patrick Gibbons |
The Road to Customer-Focused Results Implement an initiative that pays off. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 15, 2003 David A. Garvin |
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act Professor David A. Garvin offers a rare inside glimpse at how the case method is used by both faculty and students in classrooms at Harvard Business School. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Elizabeth M. Willis & Peggy Raines |
Technology in Secondary Teacher Education Educators must accept the computer and its software not as replacements for the content of the disciplines at the core of the curriculum, but as useful extensions that complement content... |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 |
Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out? |
Job Journal November 22, 2009 Wade Robins |
Five Steps Toward a Teaching Career If you have a talent for teaching, take these steps toward a classroom career. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Katharine Gammon |
Room to Grow -- and Learn For undergraduates who have the opportunity to do high-level research, the experience can be unforgettable. |
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 |
Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly. |
T.H.E. Journal June 2004 Beth McBride |
Data-Driven Instructional Methods: 'One Strategy Fits All' Doesn't Work in Real Classrooms Differentiated instruction is vital to effecting positive change in student performance. |
T.H.E. Journal July 2007 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
Curriculum-Based Reform :: An Eye on the Future Employers say that US schools are not teaching students the skills they must have for the 21st-century workplace. What may be needed is a sweeping change in how we think about curriculum. |
Information Today March 21, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
SAGE Strikes Gold with Andy Field's New Statistics Textbook/Ebook Sussex University's Andy Field has found his way through the challenges and opportunities of textbook creation brilliantly to create an award-winning and wildly popular brand in the unlikely area of quantitative research methods. |
Job Journal November 9, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Postsecondary Teachers College-level instructors enjoy a class of students more eager to learn. |
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard |
Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers. |
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 Matthew Crews |
A Costly Trend at Cost Plus Is there is too much risk to consider Cost Plus as a potential investment opportunity? |